For the past decade I have been a step parent, a role I never anticipated in my life. I married a wonderful man with four beautiful children; three daughters and one son. Although three of my step children were at least eighteen, one of them, a female, was only thirteen when I became her step mom. Every grown woman knows that being thirteen in and of itself is at times "no picnic." Now add in a step mom and the situation allows for additional challenges the step child never anticipated. I have a very strong faith and a personal relationship with Jesus and therefore, although I knew this would...