Tonight has been pretty emotional. I went to an evening of prayer for a very special young woman who is battling cancer. We were praying for her healing and just continued strength for both her and her family.
Struggling sometimes with my own health you don't always see the 'behind the scene' work. That probably doesn't make alot of sense to many, so I will explain in more detail!!!
When you are sick people always say to you "we are praying for you" or you stand with two or more people while they pray for/with you - which don't get me wrong is really amazing and encourages you. However tonight was just breath taking. Steph's family and friends and just random people who had been touched by her story, gathered and as a united front and prayed together with such emotion and truth.
You have probably gathered by now that I can be quite a wimp!!! So it probably wont surprise you that I cried all night. It just bowled me over how much love and support was there. It also broke my heart to see the anguish and heart break that the family were going through - when you are ill you never see that, you know its there but it is always well hidden. Tonight it was allowed to flow freely even though it was heart breaking there was this real beauty about it too.
My motto for life for the last couple of years have been "live for each day". Tonight, this amazing group of Christians from different churches, different walks of faith, different historys and different backgrounds joined together to form one body before God and asked our ever loving, all powerful Father if Steph could please have those extra days to live for.
All I can say is, I know I wasn't the only person crying!
Struggling sometimes with my own health you don't always see the 'behind the scene' work. That probably doesn't make alot of sense to many, so I will explain in more detail!!!
When you are sick people always say to you "we are praying for you" or you stand with two or more people while they pray for/with you - which don't get me wrong is really amazing and encourages you. However tonight was just breath taking. Steph's family and friends and just random people who had been touched by her story, gathered and as a united front and prayed together with such emotion and truth.
You have probably gathered by now that I can be quite a wimp!!! So it probably wont surprise you that I cried all night. It just bowled me over how much love and support was there. It also broke my heart to see the anguish and heart break that the family were going through - when you are ill you never see that, you know its there but it is always well hidden. Tonight it was allowed to flow freely even though it was heart breaking there was this real beauty about it too.
My motto for life for the last couple of years have been "live for each day". Tonight, this amazing group of Christians from different churches, different walks of faith, different historys and different backgrounds joined together to form one body before God and asked our ever loving, all powerful Father if Steph could please have those extra days to live for.
All I can say is, I know I wasn't the only person crying!
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