Oh Heavenly Father put your loving arms around Courtney and let her feel you are comforting and loving her. Give her the peace that surpasses all understanding, give her a hunger for you and your word. May it fill her whole being and open her eyes. Bring her out of that dark tunnel she feels in at this moment, and give her a reason for living. May her cup overflows with your joy. My Lord and Savior just as you did for me in my darkest times do for her too. May she someday look back and see how you were there with her all through it. I pray and thank you in advance in Jesus Christ Precious Name, always giving you all the Honor and the Glory Heavenly Father to whom all power belongs, Amen!
Courtney I too had the bible forced down my throat when I was growing up. My father was a minister, and I was supposed to be the example for the rest of the kids in church. It turned me off for over twenty years, until I too hit bottom. But if it had not been because I remember what the bible tells us of God's love for us, and I turned to it specially to the book of Psalms which has become my favorite book for it pulled me out of my misery in those dark moments. I tell you if it were not for the bible and the spark of faith that it brought into my life, I would not be alive today. Now as an old lady I still turn to the God and his word in my time of need. It has become the living waters of my soul. Remember God is not like the people around us. He loves us no matter what we may have done. He never condemns us, he delivers us from all our sins and addictions, all we have to do is cry out to him and believe as a little child believes in fairy tales, and he will be there for us and help us at all times. May these holidays bring you have a good reason to celebrate the birth of Christ and the New Year be a new life for you in Christ. Give all your heart and love to God and see miracles happening in your life.
Please read below, you may not see this now, but someday you will understand and see it so clearly.
Footprints in the Sand
One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.
In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was one only.
This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life, when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat, I could see only one set of footprints, so I said to the Lord,
“You promised me Lord,
that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life there has only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?”
The Lord replied, “The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.”