Today I had the privilege of meeting the sweetest couple, for the sake of privacy I won't say names but I really want to recognize them. My family and I talked to them for a good half hour or so seeing as my dad has been friends with them for quite some time. Since I had never met them, I got to hear a little bit of this amazing woman's story and testimony. 13 years ago she was diagnosed with cancer, and 13 years ago she was given only two weeks to live, 13 years later she is still here and yes she has been through a lot but she is a living testimony of how God works miracles and saves us from man kinds worst trials. She is a strong Christian and knows its because of God she pulled through, the way she really gave praise back to God is something I truly admire. Another testimony that I saw in the couple as a unit is the definition of commitment and love. Her husband has been by her side through all of it, through times when she could barely walk and times of her being healed. He never gave up on her, never left, and never handed her over to someone else to deal with. He stood by his wife through everything and this is so refreshing to see because in today's world, commitment is like a forsaken word. No one wants anything to do with it, in fact people run from it. For those of us out there who still dream of growing old with the love of our life, seeing little things like this in couples, it sparks hope for our futures. It inspires and reminds us that the ways we are raised, the values we've been instilled with do exist. And even though our generation may be trying to wipe them out, we still have a fighting chance and we still have outstanding role models showing us the way even when we least expect it. I want to say thank you to these friends of ours for being a testimony of faith, of commitment and a role model of a strong marriage.
A thought came to me today as I stumbled upon some inspirational posts. Why are we often so eager to escape our troubling circumstances. We get trapped in the fire and get so focused on getting out that perhaps we miss the most important question of all, what refining needs to be completed in the fire? Just as a welder uses the fire to shape and refine metal, so God uses our circumstances, "fires" to shape and refine us. If he simply swooped in and saved the day, we would lack the knowledge he hopes us to gain, we wouldn't grow in character or wisdom. In the fire we think he abandom us, left us to our own devices, but in reality he is more present in the fire even then in the calm. It's when we feel abandoned that he's calling to us the loudest, beckoning us to just open our ears to listen to his voice. Take the fires in stride, don't immediately reach for the extinguisher. Allow the flames to surround you with the confident knowledge that the one whom the...
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