Love, Laughter & Tears

By Debbie Eddy

Love, Laughter & Tears is a book that draws you into Debbie and Larrys lives with a blended family of five children. You will find yourself laughing and crying as you relate. Each chapter draws you into the trials and tribulations they experienced and conquered with Gods help. They had to learn to stretch as they grew through past hurts! Nothing is impossible with their God. Their love continues to grow after 36 years of marriage.

In these pages you will find: the humor of two families becoming one, the enemy attempts to destroy, helping others in time of their own needs, testimonies of the greatness of God, finding a secret place, blessings of mission trips, learning to nail rebellious grandchildren to the cross, and the Joy that does come.

Debbie Eddy is an author that loves to share her heart of lifes interesting trials, with a twist of humor. She is able to express honest truth of how we humanly deal with our problems and how God uses them to train and grow us up by His spirit. People always say to her, I came to you because you will tell me the truth, no matter how much it hurts!

Debbie has taught children and childrens workers in the local church and mission field. She has taken counseling and childrens writing courses. Debbie is an Ordained Minister of the Gospel, teaching, preaching, anointed of the Holy Spirit and moving in the God given gifts of intercession, deliverance, exhortation and prophecy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 26, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499084016

Debbie Eddy

Debbie Eddy was born August 1950 to military parents, Milton & Georgia Corbin while stationed overseas. Debbie was raised and brought up in a Christian home from the age of two as her parents accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord upon returning to America. Debbie received Jesus as her savior at the age of nine. God had dealt with her heart concerning sin and disappointing God and her earthly father through her disobedience. Her father was a deacon in the church and her mother taught young girls and sang in the choir. Debbie was raised in a very strict military type, christitan home. From her teenage years into her first marriage at seventeen she spent many years breaking rebellion and learning the importance of obedience. teenage years. Debbie remarried in her late twenties to her present husband Larry. Debbie having three children and Larry having two children they were referred to as the “Eddy Bunch.” The seven of them joined The Church of Acts in Corpus Christi, TX approximately 35 years ago. This is the time in their lives that this book became a seed and has grown into a book of the trials and tribulations they have encountered over the years. Through those years, Debbie was ministered to with private prayer and counseling. Through her stages of growth God did a great work in her life. She became obedient and sensitive to God’s voice and has been delivered and restored from rejection, rebellion, fear, emotional problems and lack of self esteem. Debbie and her husband Larry were Children’s Ministers seven years in their church’s, and Youth Directors for two years. They wrote curriculum and taught a class for a year for Blended Families. Both were ordained; Larry, as an ordained Elder and Debbie Ordained as Minister of the Gospel. Over the years Debbie has written many children’s books and skits for their church. Lately writing curriculum for Vacation Bible School for her home church and mission work. She also has taken part in writing children’s TV programs that are aired on a local Public Access Station weekly. Debbie began to write this book approximately twenty years ago, when they were transferred to San Antonio with her husbands job. They were given their first computer, by some friends that worked with them in their church Youth Group. Debbie’s husband is very electronically knowledgeable, and Debbie, well she was scared to death that she would ruin it! When her husband was at work she would try to type on the computer, getting stuck, not knowing what to do and cry thinking she had ruined it. God had been putting the desire in Debbie’s heart to write for awhile. They had raised their five children and many others that needed their love and care. They had found themselves with five married children, and then grandchildren were on the way. Debbie felt from all the years of experience and overcoming in many situations; she had some things to say that would encourage others.! The desire to write had been planted in her and was trying to bud forth. Debbie began trying to write this book by hand, dreading the time she would have to learn to use a computer. The time had come! Debbie and Larry had committed not only to teach a Blended Family Class, but write the curriculum. There would be a parent class, teen sibling class, and child sibling class. Her husband spent many hours just sitting at the computer with her. Her husbands patience, and love gave encouragement and slowly taught Debbie step by step how to use their new computer. They both overcame, the books were typed and finished and the classes started. . Since then, God has allowed Debbie to write many newspaper articles, sermons, and children’s lessons. Debbie finds herself now twenty years later, still learning new things with the computer. There has many years of stopping and starting because of inadequacies, disobedience, fear and just flat believing the enemies lies. Debbie is an overcomer and finds such joy to see this book finished and being published. Debbie’s heart’s desire is to bless people with the truth of what God has done for her through hard times. She believes if God can do it for her and Larry; God can do it for others too! They call their selves the Miracle Marriage, knowing without God it would not have happened! When Debbie is speaking with people, they are so surprised the understanding she has concerning what they are experiencing. Always with confidence in God, she will say, “Yes, God can help you! Yes, there is hope! The key is, don’t give up, trust God, stay close to Him and spend time with Him. Do not take counsel from the ungodly!” Love, Laughter & Tears is a book that draws you into Debbie and Larry’s lives with a blended family of five children. You will find yourself laughing and crying as you relate. Each chapter draws you into the trials and tribulations they experienced and conquered with God’s help. They had to learn to stretch-h-h as they grew through past hurts! Nothing is impossible with their God. Their love continues to grow after 36 years of marriage. In these pages you will find: the humor of two families becoming one, the enemy attempts to destroy, helping others in time of their own needs, testimonies of the greatness of God, finding a secret place, blessings of mission trips, learning to nail rebellious grandchildren to the cross, and the Joy that does come. This book will help people in the subjects of marriage, warfare, prayer, obedience, wanting to go forward with God has for you in life. Debbie Eddy is an author that loves to share her heart of life’s interesting trials, with a twist of humor. She is able to express honest truth of how we humanly deal with our problems and how God uses them to train and grow us up by His spirit. People always say to her, “I came to you because you will tell me the truth, no matter how much it hurts!” Debbie has taught children and children’s workers in the local church and mission field. She has taken counseling and children’s writing courses. Debbie is an Ordained Minister of the Gospel, teaching, preaching, anointed of the Holy Spirit and moving in the God given gifts of intercession, deliverance, exhortation and prophecy.

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Copyright © 2014 by Debbie Eddy.

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INDEX

1     Rose Colored Glasses

2     Who Is This Holy Spirit?

3     This Is War!

4     He Was There All The Time!

5     Robyn’s Blanket

6     Come With Me To My Secret Place

7     What Do I Have To Give?

8     Nailed To The Cross

9     Joy Does Come In The Morning

10   Keep No Souvenirs

11   I Thought I Passed The Test Of Faith?

12   The Flesh Is Weak; But The Spirit Is Willing!

13   Devil 101

14   Journey To Authority

15   God Was Right-He Was What I Needed!

Dedication

This book is dedicated to:

My heavenly Father for blessing my life and for the gifts and talents He has allowed me to use to His glory writing this book

My earthly father, Milton L. Corbin that raised me to love the Lord with all my heart. He has always been there to support me in many different ways in my writings. He has read my little stories since elementary and through the years, now reading my newspaper articles and listening to my sermons. Dad your the best father in the world!

My precious husband, Larry N. Eddy that has encouraged me to write this book for twenty years and never let me give up. He has helped with past memories, listened to my tears and all my fears that I couldn’t do this. He’s prayed me through all these trials we have walked through and now write about. God knew it would take a man of his patience and strength in the Lord to stand and help me through life. Honey, I even appreciate your dry humor that is suppose to make me smile.

My Pastor and friend, Betty Vestal that has spent many years counseling and praying for me. She always saw what God wanted to do in my life and was always there with an open ear to listen. She has been that Godly woman, Pastor and friend that I needed, so that I could overcome and continue forward toward the call of God on my life.

My friend Elsie Strakos that lost sleep over editing my book. She has been a friend that has stood beside me faithfully through all of the projects and endeavors I get myself involved in.

My friend and work colleague, Tina Foster that I intrusted my book to e-mail into the publisher. She is my computer hero that gets me out of my greatest computer problems at the church office. God has gifted her with a mind that understands how computers think. She also is my photographer for the author picture. Praise God for Tina!

I can’t leave out all my friends and family that contributed to being part of mine and Larry’s lives. Your the greatest!

CHAPTER 1

Rose Colored Glasses

There we were, Larry thirty-six and me twenty-eight. We never knew what hit us. Blind sided by children and love. Between the two of us we had five children, ages four, six, eight, ten and twelve. I was a drive-in teller at a local bank and Larry worked for a banking equipment company. Periodically I would be the one to call for him to come and work on the drive-in equipment. Larry had been divorced with two children for approximately nine years and I had just been separated for part of a year. With the help of many co-workers we were coaxed into a first date, that went into a second date, and then the kids all met. From there it just became history.

Dating became very interesting between separate houses, getting supper, homework, baths and then trying to find time to talk on the phone and see each other. When the children were together they always wanted to stay together. When we would try to go on dates; they would call us on Larry’s beeper. No matter where we were they would loudly announce things such as: No kissing or Calling Dr. Eddy, Calling Dr. Eddy. We weren’t sure at first if we were falling in love or dating was just such a great challenge? It was love, and we knew that this relationship had to be based upon what we knew of God or we wouldn’t have a chance at all.

We both accepted Christ as our savior and were raised in the Baptist Church at very young ages. In talking we realized, by the time we each reached thirteen we knew God had something special for us. As we dated we would hit and miss at going to church, trying and aiming toward what we knew to be the truth. This relationship had to be ordained by God himself or we were both losing our grip. Did you ever notice, God doesn’t have to make sense? We were not so young, we had five children and now starting over. We didn’t have the best odds in the worlds eyes; But God, as our Pastor says. Eighteen months had passed, we decided it was definitely God and we had to face it, we were in love. If we didn’t make a decision about marriage soon we were going to lose it for sure. You see it wasn’t hard facing that we were in love, but were we in love enough to try to raise five children together?… But God!

Humor was always involved! I should say Larry’s humor was always involved, trying to keep me from crying. To make it more interesting God blessed Larry with a very dry sense of humor and I was overly sensitive and cried a lot. The Lord had told me that I was going to marry Larry and that he was what I needed. I argued with God off and on for a while. Fear overwhelmed me of commitment, failures and hurts. Larry said he had all the faith we needed to make it, even though our monthly incomes were less than our bills. After arguing over who proposed marriage to who, (we made a deal) we would get married on Larry’s faith. That shows where I was at, I could trust Larry more than God at that point.

Our planned wedding date, July 1, 1978 finally came. The night before involved washing clothes for five children, packing suitcases and toys (to share them with relatives for the next few days) and our honeymoon preparations. As you can see, we had not yet adjusted to the organization it was going to take for a family of seven. We finished about three in the morning and the wedding was to be in eight hours, that same morning. We had shopped for the children’s wedding clothes, I got the ceremony set up, Larry took care of the flowers and off we went to the church. The small Mazda was bulging with children, suitcases and toys. The children were excited with laughter and many questions. By then Larry was smiling and laughing, I wanted to cry and couldn’t wait for us to get away alone. The wedding was at Second Baptist Church in a small glassed-in walk way with greenery. The children stood up with us and only a few family members were present. Friends and family blessed us with a beautiful home reception and our car read, The Eddy Bunch. As I now remember all the laughter, I wonder if it was everyone’s joy for us, or did they know something we didn’t? What were they really thinking? Counting the cost is good; but, some things your better off not to know, just obey.

For our honeymoon we went to Matamoros, Mexico and stayed at the Holiday Inn. We had waited too long to book a room. It was Forth of July weekend and everything was booked all through South Texas. When we got there, only a spanish speaking man was on duty and our bill was fifty dollars higher than planned. Our room had a huge area of the ceiling missing in the entry hall, the shower didn’t spray, it dribbled and the bed only had three legs where we placed a glass. It didn’t take long for our five children and new home to look very good. We just wanted to go home!

As I went back to work after the honeymoon, I was excited to be Mrs. Larry Eddy with my five precious children. I took my wedding pictures to show everyone. My eye glasses had a pink tint in the glass to protect my eyes from the sun rays. A co-worker was looking through the pictures, looked at me and laughed saying, That figures, your looking at this marriage through rose colored glasses. Then he preceded to walk off laughing. I’ve never