Larona Son:  

Find me on Facebook! I'm happily married to my best friend, Virgil Son. We have 4 awesome kids: Aly, short for Alexandrea, (24), Joshua (18), Brianna (16), and Grant (14). Our oldest daughter Aly and her husband Mike have given us 3 gorgeous grandbabies: Adyson (5) and Gavin (4) and Gabriel (<1). Ally, like me, is a homeschool mom. I could not be happier with what God is doing in her life. I am a RN, but only work part time because of homeschooling, and I only work at all to pay for Joshua's tuition. He's a writing major at Oral Roberts University. (I'm secretly praying that he will change it to a Theology major. But of course, God's will, not mine. ) He is a certified Worldview Instuctor, of which I am very pleased. I surrendered my life to Jesus on March 13, 2004. My life was immediately and radically saved. A couple of weeks later he saved my husband Virgil, filled us both with his Spirit, and we now serve him together. We are involved in children's ministry, are lay evangelists with the CMA, and I am a co-founder and President of T.O.R.C.H. (Texarkana Organization for Resolute Christinan Homeschoolers). Before Jesus we were on our way to divorce, and we had already been down that road, but Jesus healed our marriage. We are more in love than we have ever been. He has renewed my relationship with our children, who all know him, and given us the opportunity to bond anew as a family. He also healed my anxiety, and gave me his perfect peace. Now when something appears to be going wrong I rest in Romans 8:28, "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, who are the called according to his purpose." This is where the arrogance I spoke of earlier comes in. I used to think it was all about me, and that I could "handle" my life. The truth is, it isn't really about me at all, it's really all about Him. The problems in my life weren't someone else's fault, nor were they due to poor decision making, they were due to sin. All people are born in rebellion against the laws of God: you shall not lie (even a white one), you shall not steal (even as a kid), thou shalt not use the name of the Lord thy God in vain (or as a cuss word, which is blasphemy), thou shalt not commit adultery (Jesus said if a man looks upon a woman with lust he has already committed adultery with her in his heart). We are all, without Jesus, lying, thieving, blasphemous adulterers at heart. And if God judges us by these standards, and he does, that means we are guilty and would go hell, not heaven. Romans 3:23 says "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God". As a result we are slowly destroying ourselves. The more we sin, the more miserable we become, and the more we hurt others. True Christians do not believe they are perfect, the opposite. We know that without Christ, there is nothing good in us, the Bible says we are bent toward evil. I definitely saw this playing out in my life, I would eventually destroyed everything I came into contact with. Romans 3:10 says, "There is none righteous, no, not one" and Romans 6:23 says, "the wages ...Expand for more