perspective

Dear Lamplighter,

If possible, this message is meant for Mark.  My name is ________ and I met you briefly in June at the Homeschool Conference.  I am the young widow with 4 little boys that spoke with you. 

 

This note is far overdue, but I just had to write and tell you how much you challenged and encouraged me in your seminars and how you have blessed me with your books.  Thank you for the gift of The Hidden Hand.  I enjoyed it immensely and have since shared it as well as your catalog with others.  My older boys have also enjoyed the books I purchased to read aloud to them, especially Teddy's Button. 

 

God has been faithful this past year to care for us and meet our needs, in many times, remarkable ways.  We just past the 1 year anniversary of my husband's death and I am amazed at how far God has brought me, although I still miss my husband with all my heart.

 

Thank you again for taking the time to minister to a hurting heart.  May God bless you and your loved ones in this season of our savior's birth.

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I then wrote back to her and this was her reply…she really helped put life back in perspective.

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Mark,

I rejoice with you in the salvation of your father, while I know you grieve his illness.  I understand the human dilemma all too well of wanting someone you love to be healed and stay with us a while longer, and knowing that they would be better off whole in heaven.

 

There are still many, many days I ask God why he didn't heal my husband.  We would have been faithful to share the amazing testimony and give Him all the credit.  His condition was such that only a miracle from God could have restored him.  However, although I still don't like it very much, I'm coming to realize that I have the greater testimony now.  How trusting in God and continuing to praise him in the midst of the greatest tragedy of my life and that of my boys, speaks more powerfully of how God can change us from the inside out, than healing my husband's brain would have been.  It's easy to praise God when he does what makes us happy.

 

I pray for your father's healing, and peace for you whatever the outcome.  I know that nothing is wasted with God.

Have a blessed week.