A Red-Letter Day

July 15, 2020, A.D.  A red-letter day for the Benson family.  It began a little over twelve years ago.  Betty and I got a call late at night from Sissy telling us that she was pregnant.  We were broken.  Betty and I crawled out of bed and got on our knees and began to pray through our weeping.  We prayed that God would be with her, that she would choose life for her baby and that somehow, we would make it through this.  All three of those prayers were answered and very shortly we began to pray for a worthy father for our second grandchild.  Both Betty and I were in the room with Sissy the night she gave birth to Cora Willow Benson.  I am weeping now.  This child has been a gift to us all and one Betty and I have carried so close to our prayer life.  She is securely sewn into the Family Circle Benson.  We all began to pray for a worthy father for Cora, one that would love her unconditional and would raise her in the fear and admonition of the Lord.  After a few years God answered that prayer and Clinton Bocephus Carbonell came into our lives, married Sissy and loved Cora seamlessly as his own, as God’s pick to be Cora’s father.  Yesterday the law signed on.  On Zoom, appropriately, all the Benson family set before our computer screens in front of the judge and the lawyer as Cora Willow Benson was renamed, Cora Willow Benson/Carbonell, the daughter of Bo and Mary Elizabeth Carbonell.  July 15, 2020, A.D., a red-letter day for the Benson/Carbonell family  

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