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Twenty-five years ago, while making a long drive to my grandmother’s funeral in Massachusetts, I stopped for the night to visit my brother.
He was living with a young woman named Margaret and their one-year-old son, Matthew.
As we lingered at table after the evening meal, the three of us got into a long discussion about God and the way he works in people’s lives.
It was a subject that interested me deeply. Just a decade earlier, I had experienced God’s love for me in a profound way that drew me back to the church. I wanted other people to discover that love for themselves. Margaret was not a believer, but she was interested in the faith and very open to it. However, she wrestled with the problem of evil.
I had taken an excellent college class in Christian apologetics and was drawing from it as we plumbed the depths of why God allows the innocent to suffer.…
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I WOULD LIKE TO SAY AM REALLY TOUCHED BY THIS STORY. IT MADE ME CHALLENGE MYSELF ON MY FAITH IN GOD AND MY COMMIITTMENT IN SHARING THE WORD NO MATTER THE OBSTACLE THAT MAY SEEM TO BE ON THE WAY.
THANKS TO MARGRET AND GARY FOR SHARING THIS STORY.HOPE WE ALL TRY TO MAKE THE MOST OUT EVERY SITUATION HAPPENING AROUNG US.MAY GOD CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN YOU, AMEN AND MAY WE ADOPT THE FORGIVING SPIRIT OF THE KIDS OF THAT COUPLE.
So appropriate and heaven sent. We just had a horrible crime in our community of one young (17 year old) man stabbing another young (17 year old) man. In prayer the thought occurred that although this young man (perpetrator) had lost his “freedom/life"perhaps God had saved his soul, and then I read this article. It certainly comforted me and encouraged me to speak of God’s love and mercy.
God bless you