Someone will always have it “better” than me.

 

Someone will always have it “worse” than me.

 

I’ve learning to keep my hand in Jesus’

No Jesus- know pain-

Know Jesus – know pain will be healed

 

Have you ever been blown away by someones testimony? Their joy and faith that doesn’t compute when you look at what they are living through.  Maybe we need to “search” for people like that- to touch and understand-the thing that breaks my heart is, this woman who has gone through so much- is now persecuted and reviled because of her conservative views. This woman,Sandy Rios is a woman whom I’ll probably never meet but I wish I could tell her how her words, her music touched the core of my heart and began God’s healing!

I was a smoldering wick- about to go out- Then God!

I saw Sandy at a Women’s retreat and her songs began to melt my frozen heart.

Twenty-five years ago, I went to a concert at Eastview Christian Church. Sandy was ministering in song and word. (She later became President of Concerned Women for America, and was an anchor for Fox News.)

 Sandy’s concert was two months after our daughter, Kristin, had died. Confused, angry & emotionally “shut down”- all my energy was spent trying to maintain a semblance of normality. Then she shared and sang two songs- she sang (He is Able) and (Sasha’s Song)! It was like God had orchestrated the whole concert just for me- written every word of her talk- anointed every song- just for me!  The dam broke and I simply could not stop crying.

 

 

Have you ever been trapped in a crowd, and begin to cry? My whole body hurt with trying to hold it in. The crying became sobbing and I finally gave up trying to stop. It felt so raw to “feel” again, but God was washing out the poisonous doubt, fear, and anger and replacing them with HOPE! 

She shared about her little girl- Sasha. 

http://www.sandyrios.com/Sasha/Sasha’sLife.cfm

This woman had “suffered” in a way I couldn’t begin to – or ever want to comprehend! Sasha had “suffered” in a way no person should have to suffer.  Sandy watched her child suffer seizure after seizure, incapacitated and weak- and yet she continued to live – incapacitated and totally dependent upon family and friends for her care.

And still, Sandy trusted and loved Jesus!

 

 I don’t have time to tell the complete story but I provided the link above and I hope you take the time to read her one page story of her life…  I am also including the lyrics to Sasha’s Song- If you go to the page you can hear the song in entirety. 

 http://www.sandyrios.com/Sasha/Sasha’sSong.cfm

 

                 

Sasha’s Song by Sandy Rios-

 

I gave you life one summer day      Such joy had never come my way

But quickly sorrow came to stay beside us

My grief was great, my soul was stirred    With questions, doubts and empty words

  All the platitudes and promises long treasured

Would God sustain us through the years

All the heartache, disappointment, tears

And show to us His strength?

Through fears and failures?

 

My fragile child, so weak, so frail,      I bend to softly touch your veil

Silken cheeks, to make you feel my longing

I know that in the fragile form beats heart, thinks mind, lives soul and warm?

And gentle ways the truth is showing

How God sustains us through the years

Of the heartache, disappointment, tears

And shows to us His strength!

Through fears and failures!

 

I may not walk or run or play

Or touch your hand to softly say, “I love you Mommy,”

But someday, when we’re in heaven, I’ll fly so free

So whole that we can spend our time eternally

Embracing, loving, joyfully remembering

 

Remembering

How God sustained us through the years

Of the heartache, disappointment, tears

And showed to us His strength

Through fears and failures!

 http://www.sandyrios.com/Sasha/Sasha’sSong.cfm

Surprising Treasure: We may not understand WHY we suffer in this life- but we must realize WHO suffers with us and the One who will end all suffering and wipe away every tear.

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