I enjoy the precious moments when I get a glimpse of God at work in the lifestory of another. The following update from a friend of mine is one of those moments:
As for my walk with God, well that is long tale. I have found that at 25 when you are told that your wife has cancer you have two ways to react - Anger and Fight or Pain and Surrender. I never even had the urge to fight. I remember lying on the living room floor with tears pouring down my face being a completely broken man. At that point I surrendered total control of my life to God (As if I ever had really had control of it!). That is the way we accepted everything with her illness. We never asked "why?" we only asked "What would You have us do with this?" Even when she died in my arms 5 and half years later, I surrendered her to her heavenly Father. My testimony is not one great salvation. In fact my salvation was nothing exciting. My true testimony is one of continued caring and guidance of God in my life. Everyday I am in awe of God's hand, his control over simple decisions that in retrospect have brought forth profound changes. When we selected a house in West Virginia, I had no idea that a year after her death, I would meet and eventually marry the woman who lived 4 doors away; I now know that God had us there for a reason. I think that God just laughs at me when I finally look back and see His hand on me and I remain in awe and wonder.