Good morning…
After reading yesterday’s message, “From dark to dawn,” she wrote:
“Oh my goodness Sue, we have such parallel stories. Please share Lindsay McCaul’s beautiful song “Take My Hand” with your subscriber. Like you, my disconnected time followed a move that unexpectedly brought up emotions of loss from a miscarriage suffered over a decade earlier. We lost a twin at 13 weeks pregnant and my doctor put me on bedrest and said to focus on the baby I was still carrying. I guess I compartmentalized the loss for self-preservation until the day we moved out of our old house and I walked through the empty room that had originally been a nursery. I was hit with an avalanche of emotion out of nowhere. I am a positive, upbeat and trusting person by nature so I was completely thrown by these emotions.
Suddenly I was going through the motions of my life which from the outside looked perfect – happy marriage, two beautiful boys, lots of devoted friends. Still, I felt numb and disconnected. I remember at my book club a friend I hadn’t seen for a few weeks asking how I was doing and I finally blurted out, “I can’t explain it but I feel separated from God.” She gave me a big hug and said, “Oh honey, even the saints had spiritual dry spells!” I can’t explain it, but in that moment I felt such peace and I felt that her words gave me permission to sit tight and wait – something that is so hard to do – to surrender.
A friend invited me to join a Bible study and I found my faith deepen in ways I didn’t think possible. One week the leader played a Tim Keller podcast and he said, “If the crucifixion doesn’t melt your heart you haven’t fully embraced what it means to be Christian” – in that moment it was all I could do not to sob!! I was watching “Say Yes to the Dress” and heard Lindsay McCaul’s song “Take My Hand” and the tears came – the words spoke to my heart. I listened to that song thousands of times.
Next I started teaching the boys’ Bible study and then my younger son’s religion class. Slowly I was being healed. Now I’ve been asked to lead a women’s study. I just saw this amazing quote: ‘As Jesus himself said, the seed is the word of God, and however unworthy or muddled the one who sows it, it remains God’s word, and it will do its work, never failing to astonish us at its abundant productivity.’
I pray your subscriber joins a study and finds healing. I was in the place she’s in for a year, so I know how hard each day can be. I hope she will find comfort from other women who’ve walked the same path. I will pray for your subscriber – your words are a gift to her. So happy to start each day again with your wisdom!!”
Simply being a conduit, I looked up the music video she suggested and am sharing her prayerful gift with you and the subscriber who is currently stuck in holy darkness.
Lindsay Mccaul, Take My Hand, Lyrics..
Enjoy the blessing God is passing along.
Our loving LORD whispers: “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are ever before me” (Isaiah 49:15-16, NIV).
…Sue…
