“And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus” Phil 4:7
From A Path Through Suffering
“After the death of my husband Jim, I returned to my jungle station. My Quichua friends were sympathetic, for they had loved Jim too. There was plenty of work to do, and I soon established new routines and was thankful for all the pressing duties that filled my days. Bags of mail began to come in bringing comfort and the assurance of prayers of hundreds of people, most of whom I did not know. I wrote to reassure my family and friends – I was all right, my baby Valerie was well, God was faithful- they need not be in anguish over the thought that I was “All by myself down there in the jungle.” But my mother-in-law wrote of her fears that I was perhaps repressing my grief and might eventually crack. This upset me, of course, and I wondered if she was right. She was a chiropractor and a keen observer of human nature, a wise woman whom I wanted to learn. But was there really no such things as the peace that passeth understanding? Was I only imagining I had been given it? Could God fulfill His Word or could’t He?”
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