I don’t mean to take the easy way out of this week’s blog but I really want to share with you something that we received from our friends Tim and Sheila Steele, missionaries who work with Family Life. I read it for the first time this past Wednesday. I had spent that morning at Queen 2, the hospital here in Maseru. I was staying with a baby girl from Beautiful Gate who has TB and pneumonia so that her regular care giver could take her first break from the hospital in over a week. The baby is 16 months old and was admitted almost two weeks ago. (The little boy has been released and is recovering well from his burns-there is going to be scarring, but he is healing.)
During my time at the hospital, a baby not 20 feet away from where I sat went home to be with Jesus. I know nothing of her situation, but I know that she is happy and fully healed today safe in the arms of our Savior. I took tremendous comfort in the message the Steele’s passed along and I know that I couldn’t explain the why’s of this life better than they did.
Grace and Peace, Laura
| Molly Ann Mutz (Rainey) birth -- June 20, 2008 homegoing - 168 hours later |
Recently Dennis & Barbara Rainey shared with our staff their perspective on watching their newborn granddaughter, Molly Ann Mutz and her extended families, experience a lifetime of love in just 168 hours. While Molly lived... the Rainey/Mutz families rejoiced with her. In her home-going... they rejoiced as well. (Philippians 4) Sometimes our God chooses to answer our prayers with a touch of comfort, maybe emotional healing or possibly a miraculous physical cure. There may have been times where you have felt Him restraining you in making a major decision or He closed a door to an opportunity that you felt certain would've been in your best interest. He does that, you know. There may even have been other times in your life that God has used life's circumstances to teach you a lesson about His sovereignty and your need for His guidance and to temper your pride and self-absorbed focus. He does that, too. Whatever God does to get your attention, remember that He does it for the best of intentions; to honor His name through our responses and to draw us, and others, to Himself. We won't see the eternal impact of our actions or our words until heaven. There are two webpages relating to Molly Ann that have been posted through FamilyLife's e-zine called The Family Room. We wanted to make certain that you know through this hard circumstance God's name was honored and praised and the dignity of Molly Ann was treasured and her mother Becca and father Jake were comforted. To His name be all the glory in all of life's fullness, Tim & Sheila |
| Dennis' Reflections Barbara's Reflections |
2 comments:
Thanks for sharing little Molly's story with us... I'm speechless. "Our God is an awesome God!"
Thanks for sharing - It is back to all we see on the back of a Tappestry is the back and God sees the front and until we cross we will not see the who;e awesome front.
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