what is your story?

[soontobemommy22]

My naame is Kala Goodnight. I am almost 24 years old. I am a stay at home mom of 2. I am married to a wonderful man named Patrick. We have been married almost 3 years now. We have 2 wonderful kids. Taylor is 3 and Caden is 17 months old.

Here's my salvation story

I had a rough childhood. My birth mother left when I was 5 years old. My dad got married again when I was in 4th grade. She was very mean to me she called me fat every chance she got. She has basicly whipped me dad into believeing whatever. I started hanging out with the wrong kind of friends. I never did drugs or anything like that. Then a new girl moved across the street. Her name was Christy. We became close friends. I knew she went to church and that. She came over onee day and asked me if I could go to a youth rally with her. I told her she needed to ask my dad. I went with her. I was kinda of freaked out by the people around me. The service went on! I felt something different inside me. I felt like God was pulling at my heart strings. Telling me to go forward and get saved. I had asked Christy to go up with me and as we walked up I felt very nervous like. Then our youth minster's wife came up to us and she asked me if I was saved I told her no! We said the prayer. I got up and I felt alive for the first time. I gave my heart and my soul to Christ that night it was April 4 2004.

When I turned 18 years old I moved out of my dad's house and I moved in with my dad's ex girlfriend's daughter's house. I withdrew from school. and I signed into the high school closer to me. I turned my back on God. I graduated in 2006. And I began to do drugs and sex and drinking. I was 18 when I lost my V card it was a one night (drunk) stand.

I started to work with Sherry(dad's ex) at the Flea Market. at the Booth she had. Then I met Patrick. I was 20 years old. He had the booth next to ours with his friends. We started talking. and I was the one that siad I think you and I should hang out one day. That weekend we went on our first date. We saw Pirates of the Carribeen 3. We shared our first kiss. We began to date. He told me he was a Christian I said okay. Then one day a friend was over at my house her and her husband asked if I would go to the county fiar with them I said sure. Sherry's boyfriend came over and said they had to leave told them no they don't this wasn't his house. He told me to pack up my stuff and go. I did just that. I called Pat and told him what was going on.I moved in with that friend. That night asked Pat to come over and stay the night and we made love for the first time. And he asked me to marry him I moved out of that fruends house and in with Pat because that friend (even through she was married) made a move on Pat. I met his mom and dad for the frist time. They both told me ( and his brother did too) they would kick him out of the family and keep me. In Dec of 07 I found out I was pregnant with Taylor. it was 3 weeks before our wedding.

We moved in with his mom and dd. We stayed in spearate bedrooms until we got married. We got married on Jan. 19 2008. We stayed at his mom and dad's house for 3 months. Then we moved in to his grandma's house to keep the insurance up on the house. We lived there until July 4th of that year. We got our own place we moved in the weekend of July4th. We lived there 2 weeks and I had Taylor. I gave birth to Taylor on July 19 2008.. We lived ther at our place for almost a year then Pat lost his job. We moved moved back with his mom and dad. in June of 2009. I found out I was pregnat again with our 2nd baby on June 26th 09. I spent my entire 2nd pregnantce at his mom and dad's house. I gave birth to Caden on Feb. 17 2010.

I told his mom and dad I would get baptisted after I had Caden. I got baptisted on April 4 2010. We are working on raising our kids to walk with God. Taylor is 2 and she knows most of Jesus loves me. We have a happy marriage I pray on becoming a better wife and mom.

 

[missamerica1]

So glad that you are back with God  & He is blessing your life.

[snakesNsnails]

Awww..thank you so much for sharing your story!  don't you love it when the little ones sing Godly songs?!  my husband and i listen to mostly Christian music and the kids love so many of the songs..in the van they request songs on the cd's and they love to sing along with them!!

[steffers96]

I love your story!! It's awesome to hear that there are young couples that have this type of relationship - both with their spouse and Christ.

My husband and I are high school sweethearts - I was 16 and he was 18 when we met. I was actually at a mutual friend's house when we first met. I was born and raised Mormon, and I'd had problems with that for a long time. My mom and step dad forced me to go to church, 6 days a week, seminary during the work week and 3 hours on Sundays - it was awful. I remember always questioning things, but my mom used to tell me if I questioned things then I didn't have a belief in Christ. My parents divorced when I was 8 years old - my dad never went to church - and he never forced me to go when we were with him either. My mom, however, shoved it down our throat and I used to get so frustrated because nobody could ever give me any answers to any questions. It was SOOOO irritating! I met my husband - honestly, he was a partier and I wasn't, so in the beginning, our relationship was quite rough. I dated partiers - and to this day I think it was just me rebelling - I still am not really sure why I dated the guys I did because inevitably we had nothing in common - but I was in for the shock of my LIFE when my husband took me home to meet his parents!! I got there, and found out they were Christian (not the "Christian" that my mom claimed all Mormons were). It was SOOO interesting!!! Anyway, I met Bri in 1992 and in 1994 I graduated high school. His parents talked to me about Christ for a few years - I really wasn't sure where to put things in my life at that point yet - especially with Christ. At this point, my mom had bailed out on me - she got married to my stepdad and moved to Utah and left me and my two younger siblings here in California with my dad. I really wasn't so sure about the religion thing yet. In 1996, at the beginning of that year, my husband and I "broke up" - we were still only dating at the time. It was then that I remember really ever praying - reaching out to God asking Him for help. I swore that whatever happened had happened for a reason and maybe God didn't want us together anymore and it was what it was. I'd called my (now) mother in law, and talked to her about the situation, and she told me to hang in there. I kept a journal of all of it - the time we were apart - and it wasn't a fun time. I swore at one point that God wasn't listening to my prayers because we didn't get back together for several months. Then, out of nowhere, Brian called me and said he wanted to talk....so we did...for almost 4 hours!!! At that point, we decided to give it another try. About 2 weeks later, he proposed, and later that year we were married - HOWEVER - about a month before we got married, my mother in law and I had a long talk, and during that talk, I had accepted Christ. I felt like something changed - I didn't know what it was yet, but I felt that change. We were married in our Calvary Chapel that we began attending. We lost our way several times over the years - life has a way of getting in the way of the important things - but we always came back to Christ. We've been married for 15 years, we've been together for 19 (in September of this year, we'll be celebrating 20 years together)...and honestly, with my mom's history and how I was raised, I honestly never thought I'd be married this long. My mom and I have always had a bad relationship, which is why I believe my mother in law and I became such good friends, and my mom used to tell me that my husband would do to her what my dad did to her & blah blah blah. I couldn't be happier if I tried.

For many years, we tried to have kids - I've had 3 miscarriages and 2 ectopic pregnancies, and shortly after I turned 30, we'd just given up. We completely abandoned the idea of ever having kids and just began spoiling our nephews. I prayed and prayed for kids - always wanted kids - and it just never happened. I can't tell you how many times I cried, how many times WE cried, over the losses. Just ridiculous. Come to find out I have endometriosis and pregnancy is difficult for me. We just gave up. I kept praying for a miracle, but nothing happened. We figured God just didn't want us to have kids, and we weren't going to push the issue by doing in-vitro or anything like that. Then one day, I went to work, and a friend of mine was in the process of adoption, and she'd been back home with her then 3 month old, and she'd sent me an email at work and I about fell over! She said she'd gotten a call from her son's birth mother and she has a friend who was pregnant and wanted to adopt the baby out and she wanted to know if we were interested. Of course I told her yes, but had heard horror stories about adoption so we definitely didn't get our hopes up - but needless to say, today we have a 3 1/2 year old and we are SOOOOOOOOOO ridiculously blessed!!!!! I love listening to our son sing songs from church - it's absolutely amazing to me to hear him singing - things I never thought I'd be able to do - but God heard our prayers, and He didn't give us kids when we wanted because He knew that Tyler was going to need parents, and so He gave us to Ty and gave Ty to us. He is what we like to call, our little miracle, because we know we wouldn't have our son if it wasn't for our prayers and God intervening.

Currently some think that I'm crazy - I got laid off last year and was SOOOO thankful. Yes, we have bills like everyone else, but I always wanted to be a stay at home mom, and for the first year of my son's life, he was at work with me, but after that, he went to daycare, and it just wasn't going very well, and I used to come home and cry to my husband because my job was awful, and I was sad for our son, so when I got the call that my boss was shutting down the offices, I was sooo happy! Yes, unemployment is awful, hardly pays anything, but my husband is working and we have a super low house payment, and recently we just paid off one of our vehicles, so you know, as long as we're able to make ends meet, I'm going to stay home for as long as possible - we're even talking about home schooling our son because we don't want him in public schools - and I'm very very happy being home, our son LOVES being home with mommy, and my husband LOVES me being home, so we're very comfortable with our situation. We've had to make a few sacrifices, but this is precious time I'll never get back with our son and I'm not giving it up for anything in the world!! Plus, I think this is blessed by God - I've actually looked for work, and applied for work, and nothing ever panned out - and with us being able to make ends meet and be living just fine - to us, that tells us that the Lord wants me to stay right where I am...and I'm more than happy being where I'm at!!!!!! I love my husband and son and wouldn't trade my life for anything in the world!!!  :)