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Kenneth Sandra Meeks
Reflection on God’s Goodness
by Sandra Meeks
all is in the air, and it is a time pumping to bring the calf out, and
to reflect on the changes in Kenneth was knee deep in placenta.
Four lives as we visualize it When the calf was finally delivered,
in nature. As I reflect on my walk both the cow and I fell on the
with Jesus Christ, I recognize His ground completely exhausted.
faithfulness and His truths, one
being that He will never leave us Ranch life was peaceful and a
nor forsake us. He has always been blessing. Kenneth was an E & C
there for us. man (went to church on Easter and
Christmas), so I traveled 30 miles
Kenneth Meeks and I met in high with the children every Sunday
school and married at the end of our to attend church. Kenneth was
senior year. Kenneth was a rancher, looking for greener pastures, even
and I was a city girl. When I was investigating Australia, but the
introduced to ranch life, I stood in realtor wrote and said that, if your
a trough because I was afraid of the wife is afraid to meet a bear on her She told me how to accept the Lord,
chickens. This quickly changed as, way to the outhouse, this is not and my whole world changed as I
in our first winter, we had a son, the place for you, so that idea was saw with new eyes and heard with
and Kenneth needed help in pulling quickly discarded. Colorado had to new ears.
a calf on a night that was 20 below suffice as our new adventure.
zero. We tucked our young son into Soon after that, Kenneth told me he
his bassinet by the fire and went to The people in Colorado do not wanted what I had, and he accepted
the barn. I was on the chain end, look on Texans favorably, but I was Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.
excited as, at that time, We then had a missionary come into
they were Republicans our home and teach high school
and Catholics, so I felt kids about Jesus. We had wall-to-
that I would fit right wall kids listening to the word of
in. In one year, both God. I began teaching the Bible in
our fathers went to the Catholic church and saw hungry
be with Jesus, and I and thirsty teenagers come to know
began an intentional Jesus Christ.
search for God. I met
a little Baptist girl who After several years of being flooded
wrinkled her nose out and hailed out, we moved
when she talked about back to Texas, the land that I love.
Jesus; the love of God After a few years of marvelous
The Meeks’ children, Mike and Zebbe Dee. teaching under Morris Sheats, we
just exuded from her.
set out as missionaries in Mexico.
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