Faith Filled Family Magazine November 2016 | Page 10

Overcoming Sadness with
BY HELEN MURRAY

O

verwhelming sadness.
Here is a situation that
will face all believers
at some stage of their
lives. It is wonderful that this is
so, because not only will we face
this devastation at some stage,
but so does everyone else at
some other stage. There is the
wealthy oencologist who eventually acquired cancer and experienced what everyone else went
through in the production line
treatments that were handed out.
His approach to clients changed
dramatically after that as did the
approach of his student oencolo-

gists.
In other words the hardest times
are the times when we are most
open to learning and growing, to
becoming wise and understanding, to changing our established
mindset for the better, and learning how other people tick.
I was ‘sent’ to Sunday School
as a child. My family were not
into religion. However I learned
verses in childhood and in my
Christian youth that never left me
when I had a temporary distraction from operating in my faith.
There were reasons for that, but

we won’t go there, and I returned
eventually, rather suddenly!
However, during this period I suffered a horrendous loss and had
no-one to go to about it. I went
miles out into a lonely place and
screamed out my distraught feelings for a couple of hours. After that I could return home and
consider plans of operation. But
the thing that kept me together
at that time was a scripture I had
earlier learned: All things work
together for good to those who
are called… (Romans 8:28). The
Holy Spirit dropped that scrip-