A Single Mom’s Story: Giving the Glory to God

By Della Joan Korabek

From the time she was a little girl, author Della J. Korabek experienced many trials and tribulations. But for each hurdle she encountered, she knew she could survive and thrive because God stood beside her throughout the journey.

In A Single Mom’s Story, Korabek narrates her life story beginning with her birth in a small town in New York in 1935, continuing through her formative years, sharing details about her family, her schooling, and more. It reveals how, at forty years old, she found herself a single mother of three children. However, she realized that with God, all things are possible.

Korabek offers her personal testimony to touch the hearts of other single moms, seeking to give them hope and let them know they are not alone. She communicates the message that with God’s help, they, too, can live a successful life raising their children as single mothers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Apr 19, 2023
• ISBN: 9781664294523

Della Joan Korabek

Della J. Korabek passed away in 2021. She was the single mother of three children who fulfilled her dream of publishing this book.

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ISBN: 978-1-6642-9453-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6642-9454-7 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-6642-9452-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2023904281

WestBow Press rev. date: 4/7/2023

To my three children—Darrick, Shari, and Tami—and to single moms all over the world

Contents

Acknowledgments

My Advice for Moms

Chapter 1 The Start of a Family

Chapter 2 Schooltime for the Children

Chapter 3 The Big Move to the Farm

Chapter 4 A Very Sad Christmas

Chapter 5 Grade School and High School Times

Chapter 6 Regarding Delilah’s Dream

Chapter 7 Graduations, Vacations, and Fun Time

Chapter 8 Part-Time Work to Full-Time Work

Chapter 9 Full-Time Work, Drive Time, and Robbie’s Wedding

Chapter 10 County Fair Time, Date Time, and Delilah’s Wedding

Chapter 11 Delilah’s Baby Time

Chapter 12 Time to Move Again

Chapter 13 Grandparents Visit

Chapter 14 The End of the Marriage

Chapter 15 A Time for Two Jobs

Chapter 16 Travel Time with Her Children

Chapter 17 Working and Caring for the Children

Chapter 18 Ups and Downs of Raising a Family

Chapter 19 Family Problems

Chapter 20 Grandmother Sells the Farm and Moves to California

Chapter 21 Time for Delilah Again

Chapter 22 God Did Wonders for This Single Mom

Afterword

To everything there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die: a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted. A time to kill, and a time to heal: a time to break down, and a time to build up: A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1–8

Acknowledgments

Thank you to all who contributed to the publishing of this book. We lost our dear mother, Della, on December 17, 2021. She was in her seventies and eighties when she wrote this book. It was her passion to have it published, as she wanted to let all mothers know that raising children can be tough, but with God, all things are possible.

My Advice for Moms

My advice for single moms—for all moms, really—is to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior and become born again (John 3:1–15). God will be with you through all your trials and tribulations. He will always be there for you, and he will do things for you that no one else can do. Your life will have its ups and downs, but just knowing that God is with you will make your life wonderful and enjoyable. Always remember that God loves you and your children and that God is always there for you.

For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He (even) gave up his only-begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish—come to destruction, be lost—but have eternal (everlasting) life.

John 3:16

Chapter 1

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The Start of a Family

This is a story of a girl who was born in a small town in the state of New York. Throughout her life, she went through many trials and tribulations and trusted and counted on God to get her though all of them. She always believed that with God, all things were possible, and they were (2 Corinthians 12:10).

So here is the beginning of Delilah’s life: Her parents, Stan and Adele, met at a dance. Stan played both a saxophone and a violin in the band. He and Adele went out together for a while, and then they got married. They settled in the small town of Armor, New York. A year later, they had a baby girl and named her Delilah. Two years later, they had a baby boy and named him Robbie. Two years after that, they had a third child, a baby boy, and named him Jimmy. They had a lovely family.

Their little girl, Delilah, could play the piano at the age of five years. She played a few popular songs every day. She loved the piano, and she played by ear, like her dad and his brothers and sisters. She enjoyed playing the piano whenever she could.

One day, her mother made lunch for her children—peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, which they loved. Delilah took her sandwich, sneaked out the front door, walked to the corner gas station, and sat on the cement circle, where a big truck filled the gas pumps. It wasn’t filling up that day, so she sat there to eat her sandwich. A lady, however, got some gas