Saving Our Sons

and the people within it seemed to only be getting worse and worse. One evening, as we were watching t.v., I was so bothered by the thought, I ran to another room to cry my fear and frustration to God. It wasn’t long into this “prayer” that he stopped me and spoke back very clearly. These were His words…. “Don’t you dare be afraid. Just as I intentionally brought your grandmother up in her time, your mother in her generation, and you in yours, so will I bring forth your children in a generation and time they will be called to effect. Don’t you dare be afraid. I will be with them and use them, just as I have done you all.” Needless to say, that word and moment changed my life.

I love my husband, like my husband, respect and trust him. He is my very best friend. I love the man he his, and ever growing to be. Years ago, I began to want to raise someone like him for this generation. So, I prayed for a son. And, not just any son, but one with character, integrity and uprightness, like my husband. Four pregnancies (including one miscarriage) later, by Andrea Crudup our Lord answered my prayer. David Nathaniel Cornelius Crudup, not my favorite child, but my favorite and only son…. the son I prayed for. At age 7, he’s a wild, tree-climbing, dirt & wormSaving Our Sons digging, cart-wheeling, intelligent, respectful, joyful, biggest smilehaving little boy, who loves his daddy and adores his momma. To know

David, or Big Dave as we thought of God blessing me to have and have the love of a man who affectionately call him, is one of these men in my life. Undoubtedly, I knows he is loved is PRICELESS, the greatest joys of my life. He is expected nothing less in a husband, because he truly knows how to the last of our three children, our only and was given that and much more. love back. David will make a good boy, and even though I’m often teased difference in this world, not because about this, he is “the son I prayed for”. I never thought I would have a son. we’re telling him to, but because No deep logic … it was something I everyday, we show him how. His life

Aside from some of the best women simply thought would never happen. matters, because he is loved and was on this earth, God blessed me to I often recall a period in time I was chosen to come and leave his mark be raised by three amazing men: afraid to have children. About 15 years in this world.This is the son I prayed my bonus-father, grandfather and ago, my husband and I had barely for, God answered, and everything He my godfather. I’ve often cried at the been married a year, but the world does matters.