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I just stumbled upon this and am pleased to have done so (nothing is by accident, you know).
I became a Christian at the age of 16, very soon after my father walked out of our home leaving my mother to raise 4 kids on her own. No child support. Nothing. He crossed state lines to avoid responsibility, which did much later catch up to him. My mother as a single parent was making about 24,000 per year with 4 kids at a very bad economy in 1980. We ate a lot of bread and beans! We made it though, by Grace and the gift of a very smart, hard working woman I had as a mother. When my father left, I felt as if my life had ended and the secure rug under my feet was gone. All I relied on disappeared. When you are on your knees, the only place you have to look is up. Jesus was calling me and drew me to Him, offering me his salvation.
For years I have struggled with bitterness and anger toward my father for what he did and how he has treated us. I now realize, as Joseph did, that it was God who put me there, not my father. He used that to bring me to Him.... for without that, would I have been saved?
Thank God for the Lice in your life, as Corrie Ten Boom did in the concentration camp for it was the lice that kept the guards away from them and away from the discovery of their Bible.
God Bless You All....
I became a Christian at the age of 16, very soon after my father walked out of our home leaving my mother to raise 4 kids on her own. No child support. Nothing. He crossed state lines to avoid responsibility, which did much later catch up to him. My mother as a single parent was making about 24,000 per year with 4 kids at a very bad economy in 1980. We ate a lot of bread and beans! We made it though, by Grace and the gift of a very smart, hard working woman I had as a mother. When my father left, I felt as if my life had ended and the secure rug under my feet was gone. All I relied on disappeared. When you are on your knees, the only place you have to look is up. Jesus was calling me and drew me to Him, offering me his salvation.
For years I have struggled with bitterness and anger toward my father for what he did and how he has treated us. I now realize, as Joseph did, that it was God who put me there, not my father. He used that to bring me to Him.... for without that, would I have been saved?
Thank God for the Lice in your life, as Corrie Ten Boom did in the concentration camp for it was the lice that kept the guards away from them and away from the discovery of their Bible.
God Bless You All....
