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Big Al,
Welcome to this site.I think that you will find the people here friendly: and knowledgeable in various fields.I can say that since I've been here I have grown more in my spiritual life than in any other time that I recall.
After reading your post and seeing the love that you have for your wife I just have to tell you a bit about my last few months.My wife and I have been married 43 years.She is the love of my earthly life.
Just before Thanksgiving she had a stroke.I spent most of the next month crying myself to sleep, alone every night.God reminded me during that time, through the scriptures that we are created for a purpose.In the book of John 12:27-33 Jesus became troubled in his soul because he knew that the next day he would be crucified but he asked"What shall I say then,Father save me from this hour? But for this purpose I came for this hour. Father glorify thy name." He came knowing that he would suffer one of the most terrible forms of death yet willingly went through with it for such a sinner as I.
Al, I feel your pain as well as your loneliness.My advice to you would be to read the Psalms as Patrice has suggested but read in the New Testament also as God can speak to you from any scripture.If you would like,look at my profile.There you will find my email address where you can speak to me directly.
I copied part of a post that I wrote shortly after my wife's stroke.I will include it here so that you might take encouragement from knowing that there are others that are suffering and also know that there is a reason for all that happens.
Thank you Jacy,
What a wonderful testimony.He is our shepherd.I have been reading the 23 Psalm to Brenda every night before I have to leave her sometimes stopping because I can't see the words for my tears.She does her best to quote the parts that she can recall.
I do thank and praise Him for his goodness.We don't know what His ultimate plan is through our sicknesses but I had a glimpse of that last night.Someone asked me at the hospital after seeing Brenda,why God allows this kind of thing to happen to a person like her that lives a godly life and does only good for others.I could only respond that this is a sick and sinful world that we live in and christians aren't promised shielding from strokes and cancer any more than non christians.But, there is coming a time,praise Jesus,that she and you Jacy will be in His presence and will suffer no more.
I would like to thank all those who have prayed for Brenda.She is making steady improvement.She can now string sentences together and can recognize everyone that comes in to see her.She still has a feeding tube in her nose and will have to keep it until she can pass the "swallow" test.She has moved her left arm a few times and we are told that PT will restore the use of it.
Like you Jacy,we have had a Thanksgiving that we will never forget.
Psalm 47:8 God sittith on the throne of his holiness.
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