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"...You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea." (Micah 7.19) "
...for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." (Jr 31.34).
"Four years ago I had a pleasure to be called for an appointment at noon and have met a little girl that was suffering of a serious acute respiratory disease, that needed hospital cares. For this time, I was being converted (by and) to the Lord. Some hours later I came back to her room, and met her grand-mother there, sited and quiet, reading a beautiful and large book, that I was delighted to have been introduced to some months before, a Bible. For my surprise her grand-parents were pastors of evangelical churches. I remember I forgot the time because we talked so much about Jesus, while my patient slept calmly.
After the girl has left the hospital, all the family and I became close friends in the Lord, and they have also helped me in several circumstances of that first time of conversation, in a such way that we have been in touch and have helped each other. But around two years ago, the girl's parents had to move back to the town of her mother's parents, and the internet was largely useful for us. Last November they invited me to speak to their Women's Annual Congress, giving a word based on Esther 4.14. Because our friendship they invited me to stay at their house, and I was supposed to sleep at their third child room, a two-year-and-half-little boy named after the father, who was not so close to me not just he has left our town when he was a very younger, but because I had to exam him when he was less than two years age, when they had come to visit their grand-parents, and got sick because the long trip, and this experience wasn't good enough to him! So, when his mother was about to take him out of his own room (although he every night used to run to sleep with his parents) I felt that the boy really would not be pleased to that, and I told her mother, but she said it was all
ok.
Well, the night came, and the next morning. My speech would be the opening one. I waked up and went to the shower, but it seemed to me that I could be careful with my glasses, and then took them with me, and left the room to the bathroom. As soon as I came back I looked to the bedside table and could realize that watch have "disappeared". Looking down through the window I could find it downstairs laid on the steps! Her grand-mother (who took that trip with me) was at the backyard at that very moment, had heard something that had crashed against the steps!
I asked them to not blame to the boy, because I thought he was just "sending me out of his bedroom". Luckily I was right : from that time on, he became my very close friend!"
Dear Lord,
Thank you for your forgiveness and for you have left behind our sins. Thank you because you can change us in your friends, and make it possible eternally.
In Jesus'
name, amem.
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