18 August 2009
I was born to a very young mother barely 18. My birth father and my mother lived together very briefly. He was never a part of my life in any way. As i got older and realized that he had totally rejected me. I got angry the more I thought about it I had a terrible judgement against all men. When I was 6 yrs old my mother married my daddy that raised me. I could not receive his love, after all, if the person who was supposed to love me, did not; how could I expect someone else to love me like he should have. I got married at 22, but my anger against men began to take its toll on my marriage.
My husband was a wonderful man, but did not know what to do with me. I could never really tell any of my family or friends how I felt inside. John and I were separated, I had a little baby boy and then lived with my parents for awhile and then my grandmother and then found a little house and me and my grandmother stayed together. My grandmother had always been my safe person. A little grey haired lady who lived across the street would come and visit us. She never asked me to go to church only that she would love it if I would come with her sometime. when she talked about Jesus, I knew she really knew him.
After a few months I began to wonder if her Jesus would do for me what he had done for her. I went to her church and was overwhelmed with God’s love and returned the next week and went to the alter and received Christ as my Lord and saviour. In the next year my marriage was restored and on it’s way to a much better direction than before. My husband and I just celebrated 40 years of miracles this past January. In these past years I began to learn how to forgive and how to ask for forgiveness. it has been very painful at times. My birth father and my mother passed away three weeks apart. I was able to be at their bedside as they went to be with Jesus. My daddy that raised me had passed away 7 years earlier also knowing Jesus.
I often have wondered had I not asked for and received forgiveness, if my family would have ever come to the Lord that I love so much. My heart is to share the love of the Healer of broken hearts and wounded souls.
Thank god for his mercy, grace and love!!
Edie Sevy
