EMPOWERING LIVES WITH PURPOSE:
Guest writer: Dana Cryer, Pottsboro, Texas
What a wonderful day I had!!! I was released from my doctor last Monday. He told me I want you to go home and enjoy your life… “ALL IS GOOD!”
I’d like to share a story that happened years ago, but it comes back to my heart during this Fall season and Thanksgiving time.
Gene and I got married at 18 years old. I never had a mother in my life – NEVER.
God blessed me with the most loving mother-in-law. She took me in and taught me things that I had never learned before.
She was the greatest cook; she started teaching me to bake cornbread, beans, meatloaf, FRIED POTATOES😋.
Etc.
She loved Thanksgiving so much…she had four daughters & two sons. Counting husbands and wives and all our children-it was a HUGE crowd coming from all directions to be at Mamaw’s house for Thanksgiving.
She was in my life for eleven years. Then she started to have some serious health issues. She was 53 year’s old…so young. She was in the hospital for weeks and then she passed away.
My heart was ripped out because I’d never had friends I hung around with not anyone but Mamaw. My first experience of not having Thanksgiving at her home was over, and it hurt.
Fall and Thanksgiving was hard for years on…we had two sons, and I still remember the day I went into a dark depression. Now, it’s time for me to get ready and plan Thanksgiving.
Depression is horrible when you don’t share with anyone, I remember those times. My husband Gene had taken the boys out that morning. I started crying and couldn’t stop. I screamed out to God, why would You take away such a beautiful loving mother from her husband, their children, their grandchildren, and then “me?” WHY?
After I screamed and cried all morning back then, again I asked why, God?
Then all at once I felt the tear’s stop and instantly I knew that Spirit of heaviness was GONE.
GOD TOUCHED ME.
The enormous wealth of God that He has for you compels Him to shower you with His Presence and draw you close to Him when you need Him. I have so many dear precious friends that had been calling with loss. They’ve lost either a son, a daughter or others. It’s so heartbreaking to know that some of you have lost someone and it is so painful. But I have to say that if you would go to Jesus and cry out to Him, He will give you His strength.
KINFOLK are born to share adversity
Proverbs 17:17
Your family holds a powerful place in your life.
The same is true of your sisters and brothers.
As I’ve heard so many mothers that can’t catch their breath for crying for their son, daughter, or spouse, its heart-wrenching.
I’m praying that the Holy Spirit touches your heart and gives you grace for a loved one in your life this moment.
May the family of God build you up in your area of your weakness and draw from you in the area of your strength as you need them and they need you.
I’m asking you to make this a wonderful season of harvest by forgiving your loved ones ~ cry out to God, and allow Him to set you free as He has done for me.
Freedom is one of the greatest gifts we can receive…though often painful, this is a process designed to make you strong and fruitful, and trusting God to rebuild a relationship can come. His greatest desire is for you to love in the same way and forgive. He asks you, first of all, to love Him in return and then to love others.
God bless you if you are struggling with losing a loved one.
I pray in the Holy Spirit and He knows what you need, so I will be praying for you.
That you’ll experience peace and happiness again in Jesus Name. Amen.
I love you dear friends and family…the most beautiful gift that’s been given to you and me is Jesus. Allow Him to touch your heart with His love as He washes away your pain.
Dana🙌🏼