My Choice for Women's Day
Today
we celebrate women worldwide.It’s nice
to reflect on missionary Elisabeth Elliot or humanitarian Mother Theresa.There is one woman I especially admire right
here in my one-mile radius; she is the one I spotlight this year as we focus on
women who change the world.
Karen changed my world.I met her in January for the first time.She lives down the street but due to severe autoimmune diseases, she has not been able to walk from her bed to the living room.Four years ago, Karen’s husband strolled by my home with his dog and chatted with me as I worked in my garden.We shared faith in Jesus and this desperate husband asked me to pray for his wife.I stormed the heavens for that girl but every time I asked him thereafter, he replied:“No change.”
There was something about Karen, like a connection in the spirit, when I asked God to encompass her in his arms and raise her from her sickbed.The prompting made it easier to not give up but pray.
Just after the holidays, I heard a knock at my door.I…
Karen changed my world.I met her in January for the first time.She lives down the street but due to severe autoimmune diseases, she has not been able to walk from her bed to the living room.Four years ago, Karen’s husband strolled by my home with his dog and chatted with me as I worked in my garden.We shared faith in Jesus and this desperate husband asked me to pray for his wife.I stormed the heavens for that girl but every time I asked him thereafter, he replied:“No change.”
There was something about Karen, like a connection in the spirit, when I asked God to encompass her in his arms and raise her from her sickbed.The prompting made it easier to not give up but pray.
Just after the holidays, I heard a knock at my door.I…
