When my parents made drastically incorrect decisions regarding me long ago
When my most emotionally close cousin passed in a car crash when I was 15
When another cousing was murdered in horrible horrible circumstances
When I was so hurt in a car crash 34 surgeries finally put Humpty together again, but not before the millions we had accumulated after appropriatedly paying taxes, expenses, children's educations, and giving so others might live..... were lost to the very penny and my career was totally gone, our home gone,
When one of our little ones manifested schizoaffective disorder
When our first grandchild passed at birth last year from horrific defects
Then when all seemed taken away except for my wife and children and our faith, we began to understand the very real power of that faith
rebuilding occurred
Humpty was rebuilt
my career restored by LOTS of hard work and expanded
we now have a home again
wealth? None measured in gold, but bucket loads in love and faith and hope.
Then the sharing of those tidbits of gold with others who had need in outreach because it propelled me beyond the safety of the wall I had built to keep others out.
One of the outreach methods is my typing here
another a job seekers group started to help others find gainful work
more in visiting elders who are lonely and things like that
being in the pit where it was dark and my thoughts could easily overwhelm
I was so comfortable thinking about terminal methods and opportunities
shining light on my dark pit through faith I was delivered to be of value again just as you are Abbie.
Every issue about which you write is an agony without any doubt
each is equally an opportunity for faith to bring you up to light
where there is a safe means to be enriched for others
anyway......... it is the only way I was released from the agony of emotion
so I pray for you if that is OK.
One who Cares.