http://sacredsabbath.blogspot.com/2011/04/interview-with-susan-panzica.html
Marja’s newest book Breath of Life is available here.
We hugged. She wept, “I didn’t sign up for this.”
Pain unimaginable.
Walking wounded.
It can’t be real. These things happen on Law and Order. They happen to other people, not to me, not to us. But on tv, they are resolved in 60 minutes. This will take a lifetime, if it ever is resolved.
The why’s are not for us to know…. Yet.
But He knows what it is to lose a loved One in a violent tragic seeming mistake.
And because He knows – we can trust.
We can have peace that is beyond understanding.
Not peace of the “worry-free” variety.
But peace that comes from a deep assurance that belies common sense. It is uncommon sense.
How do we cope?
Another friend lost her firefighter husband on 9/11. After being bombarded with literature on how to cope, she searched the Scriptures to see what God said about coping. And found that the word “cope” is not in the Bible.
But the word “hope” is.
Nearly two-hundred times.
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.
Hebrews 10:23
The She Speaks conference was the catalyst for me to begin the journey into writing, including this blog. It is my heartfelt prayer to attend the conference again this July. If not through this contest entry, then praying that the Lord will provide another way.