I decided to start a church in the town of Morrison. I had wanted to be a church planter. I had been an assistant pastor but never a senior pastor. I was a widower with three daughters.
While I was seeing up the church, I got a job at a grocery store. I was a cashier. It was meant to be a temporary job.
Kathleen was a shift leader. She was one of the supervisors of the cashier. She was on vacation for my first two weeks. I had no idea who she was. "you! Can you get on six?" she asked "of course. "he said.
Yes, that is actually what she said to me on our first encounter. My future wife and that was our first words. My first impression of her was that she was cold and abrupt.
I later learned that she was well-liked. She was a tough bit fair. She kept to herself. We went to her car on breaks. She did not socialize with coworkers. she kept to business at work. She was stoic. On occasion, she got laughing.
She was afraid that people would take advantage of her because she was young. She was 22. She was afraid that management might regret promoting her. She felt like she had a lot to prove. She felt the pressure.
She was five foot five. Her hair was in a...