How Deep the Father’s Love for Us
February 9, 2009
I blogged several years ago that it was at a low and scary point in my life, when I was six months pregnant and hospitalized with a severe blood clot in my left leg, where I felt the most deep and overwhelming love of God towards me….a love I could not explain, but which rushed over me as I lay alone in the dark. It is that very real and vast and warm love that I hope for my friend Kristin right now as she experiences the loss of her husband Ray. As you can read on their family blog, Ray Fitzgerald fought a hard battle with cancer for less than a year, but God walked with them through the darkest of times and as Kristin puts it, even chose this road for them. From the moment Ray was diagnosed with stomach cancer to Kristin’s tribute to him and honesty about — now — his absence, they have been ”not alone and not afraid.” On their blog, there are numerous updates from Kristin and remarkable tributes from Ray’s old congressional boss, Rep. Shimkus.
Kristin herself calls attention to scripture:
“Praise be to the God andFather of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the suffering of Christ flow into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.” – 2 Corinthians 1:3-5
“A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.” – Psalm 68:5
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