Different Cradles, Same Seed
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I’m in an airplane, leaving Minneapolis to go to Los Angeles for a conference, and began to think of all my grandchildren and what I’d want them to know about me in case I died. Things I want to say and questions I’d like to answer even though they haven’t been asked. My heart has been broken many times concerning you. Most of you have lived in my house; some for less than a week, and some for a year or more. Every time I look at you, I see a miracle. If your parents weren’t supposed to be born, then you weren’t either. I promised God that I would give your parents back to Him, and I did. So, technically if they belonged to God, everything they possess belonged to Him also; including their seed. All of you that I have adopted, whom I call my Godchildren; Milton (six children), Judi (four children), Pat or Trisha (two children), Charlene (three children), and Warren (three children). You and yours are dear to me; you in me and I’m in you. Even the ones who aren’t biological, you have just been had by association. I have asked God to show you the way - not to let you go until you have given your hearts completely to Him. That God will help you live up to the purpose to which you were born. You can’t spot my life. I didn’t say I was perfect, I said you can’t spot my life. I have never been mean or evil. You have never seen anything other than a Christ-like spirit in me. I have loved you all the time and protected you when I could. I used to go out of my way to remember your birthdays and Christmas. Then I made a conscious decision to only give gifts to people who have formed a relationship with me; especially the ones old enough to. I have cried many nights thinking of my babies. You are that. I have held all of you on my breast. You can’t imagine the hurt I feel. I don’t want to go to my grave, or be raptured without you knowing that if no one else loved you unconditionally, Grandma does. You see, I am responsible for you being here. Maybe the doctors were wrong, but I do believe that God worked a miracle in my body through prayer and I conceived your parents. If I had chosen the three other men I was engaged to, you would have been different people. But divine intervention allowed you to be here. You are not here by chance. I wouldn’t have been in Minnesota, so I wouldn’t have met Judi, Pat or Charlene. Milton’s family wouldn’t have sent him to anyone but Alex. I have given you and yours to God also. You are always in my prayers.
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I came from a long line of "marryiers." My grandfather had four wives. Three died and he died on the fourth one. My Dad had four wives. I had three step-mothers and a mother living at the same time .There were 20 siblings. At ten I joined a church which was anti-divorce, so I caught the fever. I was determined I would not put my children through all of the explanations of blended, blended, blended families. "My sister's grandmother etc. So I didn't go into marriage looking out. We had to learn to work it out. All of my kids were going to be by the same daddy. No, lengthy diagrams. So we had our children and our grandchildren. Some of our children reached back and used the values of their forefathers, had nerve enough to tell me that those were my values not theirs. Getting to know and have a relationship with my grandchildren was an obsession of mine. i would agonize every time I would "lose" one. I was busy during my young life, going to prisons, teaching, school, counseling" so I am /was not a babysitter, Parents and children were welcomed at the home together. I had two teenage granddaughters stay with me, one for two school years, and one for about four months.They were sixteen or more so it wasn't babysitting. I love my children and my grandchildren occupies a special place in my heart. I can't believe I have been multiplied many times over. I was the conduit from God to earth and even though the Grands were raised in different cradles-they came from the same seed.
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Ruby Alexander was bron in Belzonia, MS, raised in Chicago Heights, IL from six months old until she and her family moved to Minneapolis, MN in 1967, Ruby has been married to Alex for 52 years. She is a teacher, counselor prison volunteer, and along with her husband founded United Deliverance Temple in 1977, and for 34 years have been by his side working in th e church. They have 4 sons, 1 daughter, 3 god children, many "adopted" children, 41 grandchildren, and more than 10 great grandchildren. She has many in-laws who will be a part of her family as long they desire to be. I have heard her say,"no matter how you feeel about your ex has nothing to do with me, when I love, the person will have to break the relationship with me, not you!" Consequently, during the holidays of 2010, she entertained 4 ex-wives harmoniously. She says,"They are family forever!"