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I was an infant Christian in a complex time of adjustment: a new extended family, a new church, and a son who had never slept all night soon took a toll on me. A woman, not much older than I, took notice and reached out in compassion.

Teddi had been raised in California and married a man in the church with five sons…I think about a year before we arrived in Wisconsin. Being California raised gave us an instant common ground, as did our love for crafting, sewing, cooking, and above all for serving God. I watched her, listened to her every word, and began desiring to know God the way that she did…with an assured matter- of- factness. I had only been growing in the Lord about a year and a half at that time so Teddi was truly a Titus 2 woman to me. She had been raised in a Christian home and had years of growth in the Lord.

Four months into our friendship Teddi came to pay a visit to my home. She had seen the dark circles under my eyes on Sunday and had heard my words of frustration about my borderline hyperactive son who just did not like to sleep! Teddi reached out to "teach the younger woman" and asked me if I had ever heard of the Feingold Diet? She could tell by the look on my face that I hadn't. Two days after I took her advice and removed all dyes from my son's diet Joe slept all night and I felt like I owed her my life!!!

Years of serving the Lord together in the local church gave our families a strong bond. I kept watching Teddi to learn from her and sought her advice and counsel often. Many hard times in both of our families and in our church truly made the following true: Pro 18:24 "A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." Our hearts were truly knit.

I am not sure of the date of this 'revelation' of sorts, but I can tell you where we were, who was around and what we were doing, when Teddi taught me about a little black box that we should never put God into. I was fixed on her every word as if everything around me was in slow motion. I know now that God wanted the truth of her words to be forever branded on my heart. We moved to the East Coast shortly thereafter.

Years passed, we moved back to Wisconsin, and we served God in the same church again for several years before both of our families moved away from that area. Her teaching of the little black box never left my heart and God used it to keep me growing in Him and never doubting His limitlessness. I thought of Teddi over the ensuing years but, sadly, in complicated and busy lives we lost touch with each other.

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