In learning to rejoice and be content in all things, it helps to remember God’s goodness in our lives. In this episode, I come to the birth of our second child being born in Germany. Despite the trials, that had tried to damper our joyful expectations, we knew that God had a good plan in store for us.
Just two years before that, we were in a completely different place, in every way. Our location, our marriage, and our spiritual
state. We had been dancing through life, to the sound of Thomas’ flute, when suddenly everything changed. We found what we had been looking for, and this led us to the Living Waters Ranch. Our life there, as born again Christians, was so much more, than what we thought we were looking for.
This time, I am telling our story about moving to Germany, and I come to the month of April 1975. I had to listen back, to Episode 18, to remember what happened, when our first child was born. I had forgotten how dramatic that day was, with Thomas almost drowning in the Pacific, and then delivering his first baby.
In Episode 17, I read from Psalm 18, which described Thomas’ experience. God pulled him out of the deep waters. A few minutes after that, he had been ashamed to tell the nearby campers, that Jesus saved him. Now two years later, we had moved across the world, for exactly that purpose. He was no longer ashamed to tell people, that Jesus is the Savior.
Living in Germany was like a new start, and Thomas had to get used to speaking German again. He didn’t realize how different it would be, after living in California, for three years. He particularly loved, reading his German Bible, and found the words rich and powerful. He hoped that he could convey the truths, that he had learned in English, in his mother tongue.
After we had been in Nienburg a few months, my dad asked
in a letter, “How’s life in Germany?” Here on a tape, Thomas talks about our developments, while Naomi played happily, with her dolly and dishes in the background.
