The Light From Above
Truest Story Ever Lived
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Faith and Trust
I have been thinking of something that I heard long ago About what it means to have faith and how God makes it grow. I heard that faith is the ability to see in the dark. It’s finding your way in the dark without even a spark.
Faith is trusting God even when we don’t understand why Our eyes are blinded from the darkness and the tears we cry. It’s believing, when we can’t see the reason for our test, That Jesus will dry our tears and give us His peace and rest.
Faith is believing that God will use each dark and gloomy pit To bring forth a strength and hope from which we can benefit. It is trusting in God’s wisdom, power, mercy, and grace, Knowing that He would not allow a useless or needless dark space.
Faith is trusting God, with a heart and mind that is humble, That He will not let us fall—though at times we may stumble. It’s believing that He is always there to offer His hand And to make our steps firm, upholding us until we can stand.
Though no one likes hardship, we can rejoice while we’re in pain, Trusting that God will use our circumstance for a worthy gain. Remember—if not for the darkness, we could not know the light. We would never put our hand out for the Lord to hold tight.
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About the Book
I wrote The Truest Story Ever Lived after hearing a sermon at church one Sunday morning. The preacher used what he felt were the most significant verses from the Bible to reveal the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Using the verses he had selected as my guideline, I wrote my condensed version of what I feel is The Truest Story Ever Lived from the Creation of the world through the Crucifixion, Death, and Resurrection of Christ Jesus, then on to the hope of the new heaven and new earth. It is my hope that my humble version would bring glory to God as well as bring those who don’t know Christ yet closer to Him. And those who do know the precious hope we have in our eternal life with Jesus will be reminded once again of what a true blessing that hope is.
About the Author
I was born in St. Louis, Mo. in 1957. I am the second oldest of six siblings. I have three grown children, three kids in-law, and four grand children. As a child and young adult, I tried many times to write poetry but not having the confidence needed I crumbled and threw away most of my poems. Then, about ten years ago, after asking God to give me something to write to my dear friends Dave and Tina after the loss of their precious seven-week old son, a poem just flowed out of me. I had asked Him to give me words of hope that would help sustain them and their family through this most difficult time in their lives. A week or so later, after learning that my Dad had Prostrate Cancer, I asked once again for words of hope, another poem flowed from me. And the rest, as they say, is history.