Love's Enduring Promise (Part 1)

I graduated from High School in 1974. My family was living in Joshua, Texas. My 1st year of college I went to Tarrant County Jr. College and then the fall of 1975 I ventured out to Stephen F. Austin University, where I only stayed one semester. I returned home and went to work full time at a bank in downtown Fort Worth. I really liked working in a bank and making a salary I could survive on living at home. I did not have a car payment, rent but I still had to live by the rules of the house and had a curfew, yes even at 20, I had a curfew. In the Spring of 1976, my parents told us, my younger brother and sister were still at home, that they were moving to Lawton, Ok. to take a Tupperware Distributorship. First of all, I wanted to know where this place was, and that there was probably not anything there for me, so I decided I did not want to move to Lawton. I got an apartment with a friend from church and we were settled, except Cheryl had a serious boyfriend and I had none. I now had rent, phone (no cell phones, only land lines) groceries and other items that Dad and Mom used to pay for now I had to. I had to watch my spending including gas money. Three weeks after they left my great-grandmother passed away and my family came to Fort Worth for the funeral. While they were here, my Dad has a cousin who was a Church of Christ Minister. Darrell asked Dad if they had found a church to go to yet? Darrell told Dad he knew someone who was the Minister of the 8th & Lee Church of Christ in Lawton, his name was Robert Gregg.