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A Woman Of Profound Strength
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Not long ago, I had the family I longed for when I married my husband.
When I found out I was not able to have children, I felt my world was shattered. I was wrong.
I adopted a child who was five months old, and then another at three years old. I had my family and did everything families would do.
Then, the unexpected happened and my world started to shatter. My husband got sick. With two children eight and under, I had to pull it together and find strength. I told my girls, “Daddy is sick and needs to have a kidney transplant. That is when they take an organ from one person and give it to Daddy. His are not working.”
He survived the operation. That was the very first time I looked toward Jesus.
About 20 years later, the unimaginable happened, something I would never wish upon anyone....
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A Grandfather's Answered Prayer
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My life has been in shambles on a number of occasions. But Jesus, and my grandfather, have rescued me from the depths of depravity to make me the Christ follower that I am today.
My father was a truck driver who fell asleep at the wheel and died in a collision when I was four, and my mom was eight months pregnant with my little sister. That was the first time my maternal grandfather stepped in to help guide my life and become our surrogate father. He was a solid Christian who became the anchor in our lives.
From time to time, I would feel a closeness to God, an emotional bond, but emotions have a shelf life. If you don’t continue to seek Him, the world can crowd Him out. When I was a teenager, that certainly took place in my life.
At 16, I started to experiment with marijuana and alcohol. That experiment quickly turned into a semi-addiction. On weekends, I’d get into some hallucinogenic drugs; by 18, I was into cocaine and heroin...
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