My name is Lois Bravo.  I want to welcome you to my 
     web site. Thank you for taking the time to check out  
     Praying For Descendants.  I pray that each of you will
     be blessed as you continue looking over this information 
     and perhaps decide to incorporate praying for future 
     generations to the end of time into your prayers 
     for your families.

      
      I was born in a little town in northwest Minnesota in 1943.  I lived on a small farm with 
      my father, mother and older sister.  I was considered the tomboy in the family.  
      I loved roaming about, playing with the cats and the yearly crop of baby  kittens. My 
      constant companion was our dog Skipper.  Whenever our dog Skipper got in trouble 
      with my dad, I would secretly comfort Skipper, even though I was told not to do so. 
      Poor dog, he never did learn to forgo his basic  instinct to kill my mother's turkeys.  
      Poor Mother, she did, however, give up on raising turkeys.

       
       The first 5 years of my education were spent in a tiny school. I had anywhere
       from 2 to 5 classmates at any one time.  The same teacher taught grades 1 to 3.  
       My father was also her student when he started first grade many years before me.  
       Ah, generational continuity in education!  I guess it's a thing of the past.
   
       When I reached the sixth grade our little school was incorporated into the big school 
       in a neighboring town.  I now had 26 classmates.  How terrifying!  Somehow I learned 
       to cope, and did complete my secondary education.

       After high school graduation, I enrolled in a 3 year diploma nurses training program 
       in the very big city of Minneapolis, Minnesota.  My true desire was to be an 
       interior decorator, but our family didn't have the funds.  During my nurses training,
       I met my future husband.  He was a resident physician at the same hospital.  We 
       married 3 months before my graduation as a registered nurse.  I worked as a nurse 
       for 1 year, retiring when our daughter was born.  I became a stay at home mom,
       and when our son was born 9 years later I continued in my new career as homemaker.  
       Now 30 years later, here I am  with my own web site. Truth is stranger than fiction!

      
      Let me tell you a little about my personal spiritual journey. Six months after our son 
      was born I made the decision to completely  surrender my life to the Lord Jesus.  
      I had not been very successful in the making myself happy department.  I wish I could 
      say that from that day on I was a totally spiritual woman, with  few problems, 
      due of course to the fact that I was totally spiritual, and when I had the 
      occasional problem I always did the right thing and always made the right 
      choice, because of course, I was totally spiritual.  Reality was somewhat different,
      however.  Where I am now spiritually has taken 30 years and I still have many 
      miles to go, I'm sure. Now as I meet each day, I find that I depend more
      and more on the Lord for His direction, His instruction, His mercy, and His grace.  
      Less of me, more of Him.