DAY 285 --- Learning From the Trials of Others

When Wendy read what I wrote yesterday, she was totally humble.  She responded to my email telling me that anything she was, anything that I had learned from her example was totally because of Father.  She wanted no recognition for her endurance of the trial she lives with.  She wanted to no one to praise her or to say anything about how they are amazed at how she endures.  She wanted all the glory, the praise to Father because He is the one teaching her, and through her, me and so many others.

She reminds me of Steve Simpson who passed away a year or two ago.  He had multiple sclerosis.  He found out about it when he was in the service.  Bonnie and I met Steve and Kaye in about 1979.  He  was just beginning to realize some of the major health problems with that ugly disease.

We watched Steve and Kaye through the coming years and marvelled and continued to be taught on how Steve endured his MS, and how Kaye continued to serve him until the end.  Bon and I often mentioned how privileged we were to have known those two.  Their acceptance of the MS and their endurance until the disease took Steve home to our Father taught so many lessons we both needed  to learn.  Both were examples to us through those years.

I guess if I try to put into words the feelings and thoughts I have about Wendy and Steve and Kaye, I guess Father often permits dear Celestial souls in our paths, lets them endure difficult trials  and one of the reasons why is to see if those who have not been similarly afflicted can learn lessons from them. 

I hope by watching, learning from and striving to serve those in that arena in my life, I can indeed learn from them as Father would like me to.  The list of lessons cannot be specified, but there are a multitude of them.  Thank you Father for knowing what is best for me, and helping me learn from others.