There is no sorrow that God can not heal.

It was a dream come true. I was paid to talk! I gave my testimony at the Christian Women's Club luncheon. I want to share it again. Here it is as it was given in 1992. I'm so glad to be here today. I know everyone says that, but I really am glad. Here today are some or the things I love. I love to eat, I love to talk, and I love the Lord! When I say I love the Lord I'm not trying to brag. My love for God is not from me or of me. The love I have for Him is because He first loved me and gave himself for me and gave me the heart to love Him. It's all of Him. I was raised in a small mining town, in a christian family who took us to a bible teaching church. So at the age of ten I stood holding tightly to the pew in front of me. The congregation sang Just as I am, there was a great battle in my little ten year old heart. And as the Spirit lead me, I walked down to the alter as was the custom in that church, and was Born Again! But just as birth in the natural is just the beginning so it is in the spiritual we need to grow in the Lord. Now I was a "good kid" I did what I should and didn't do what I shouldn't (for the most Part) But at 17 I believed a lie and rebelled. Before I was 19 I was married, expecting a child and trying to life my life in my own strength. My sweet baby girl was only a year old when our world was shaken. My Husband was involved with another women. I thought I needed out of that marriage-I needed a lot of things. I needed healing from a broken heart, I needed forgiveness for my sin, and I needed to forgive both my ex husband and the women he continued to see. I had never hated before, but I learned to hate. Hate is so damaging to the one who hates, it's like holding a hot coal in your hand but you just can't let go, it hurts you more that anyone else. It was in that brokenness that I started going to a ladies bible study. A Women's Aglow study, nothing like I had ever been to before. They called it spirit filled. All I knew was that God answered their prays and I wanted what they had. I knew that I had to forgive others for God to forgive me. But I could not forgive! They had betrayed me and taken my daughter home. I cried out to God to help me. Still I struggled. How I believe that what Satan does to harm us God uses to bless us and that is what happened. We where in a car accident what totaled our truck the tow truck that hit us and the car it was towing. Praise God we walked away. My daughter was hurt the worse, with a fractured skull. The Doc. told me she might be blind. She was sent to a larger hospital where a specialist would be able to operate if it was needed. We prayed. And this is so funny! My sister raised her hands in prayer and the EMT checked her eyes again for brain damage!! The world does not understand. God is so good my daughter had a fracture but didn't have a concussion. She was alert and happy. And although she looked awful, she recovered just fine. I was so thankful to God for sparing us. For his grace. The next time I prayed I had a new prayer, Lord I want to forgive, I just don't have it in me, but if you will give me your forgiveness I will forgive. And I heard the Holy Spirit speak in my heart simply "It will be OK." And it was little by little I was able to forgive. My heart was healed and I began to walk in freedom. Oh thank God for He is good! "There is not sorrow that God can not heal .there is no damage that He did not feel . Moment by moment he's there where you hide. Tenderly holding you close as you cry. Jesus the Lord of the lonely inside. Jesus the Lord of all love crucified." quote is from Michael Kelly Blanchard. The pictures are of my sweet little girl. and us the year of the accident.