Spring issue 2010
What an amazing turn out! Our very first Bible Study session has been wonderful! We have learned so much from one another. How blessed we are to have found such friendship and hope with strangers from across the continent! Here is a testimony from one of our participants:
Maria- “I love the study. It has definitely exceeded my expectations. I was so worried about not knowing enough about the bible that I would be lost. Just the contrary though. What I have found is a wonderful group of women… that have opened the door for me to take what I can and what I need to connect with myself and God and the amazing mothers like me. I keep trying to figure out how to keep our study going! The book is wonderfully and gently encouraging me to reflect on our loss and on my own beliefs to find peace, hope, and comfort again in a time where life feels so chaotic and I can feel so alone. I know that I am not. Thanks to this study. Thanks to Him.”
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by Kristie Verret
I have always been the kind of person who looks ahead. If I don’t have a goal to work towards, I feel frustrated, and unorganized, even if it’s only a small goal. However, just after we lost Samantha Grace, I found myself without a desire to look ahead. To lose a child so abruptly taught me one thing: I control nothing. ‘What is the point of planning?’ I despaired. ‘Your very soul could be ripped from you at any moment.’ I was without hope. I had a ‘why bother’ attitude. Yet, in the depth of my pain, I heard God’s voice. “This isn’t the end. There is more.”
I read 2 Corinthians 1:3-5, “All Praise to the God and Father of our Master, Jesus the Messiah! Father of all mercy! God of all healing counsel! He comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us. We have plenty of hard times that come from following the Messiah, but no more so than the good times of his healing comfort-- we get a full measure of that, too.”
Suddenly I knew the rest of the story, or at least the direction it was heading. God is going to use my little girl’s life to touch other women’s lives, and they will then turn around and reach out to others. This is how I can serve God, by sharing the love and comfort of that was given to me.
I Will Carry You (Audrey’s Song) By Selah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2CnUtVY35o
If you have time, check out their story through this link. There are 3 parts, all so very powerful!
Start here with Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBQYda-mkTM&feature=related |
