New Beginnings

     I am one of the millions of people who watched the royal wedding. I didn't get up at AM. I watched the recap on the news. I did see the first kiss though.      It bought back memories of my own wedding almost twelve years ago.  I was a first time bride at 41.  The first few words of the song Delta Dawn, describes me. SHe's 41 and her daddy still calls her baby.  Yep that was me. The night before I didn't sleep I was so excited. I woke up at 6AM and watched a Shirley Temple movie.  My mom had spent the night and as she got ready to leave she said, things will change , you will have a husband now. She imparted more motherly advice and left.  We went to the church to check on flowers and see how the decorating was going and then we went t Wal-Mart to pick up food trays. I was so nervpus, I thought that I might drop something.  My mom dropped me off at home and I took a nap, check on my suitcase and my wedding dre...

This day started out like so many before. The alarm clock went off. I got up at 4:30AM.  I was so tired and dreaded going to work. I had done the morning show for 27years. I loved that part of the job, talking to the listeners and ministering to them. What I hated was the game playing and the other stuff that was going on. I  trained a lot of the people that worked there. I had went to bat for them when necessary.  No one came to my defense, when they had done something wrong, decisions were made without my knowledge or expertise. Even when they knew that I hadn't done anything that warrented the kind of  treatment I was getting. I had worked there since I was 19 years old. As I climbed the steps that morning, I went to my control room and my office and did what I did every morning. I downloaded programs, programmed the computer, while I was on the air. I multi task well. I knew something was going to happen. God had woke me up that morning at 3:00AM.  Also ...