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I love to wonder in the country.
To see the beauty God created for us to enjoy.
To sit by
a creek or a pond is so calming.
I looked in the water and saw the trees lining the pond.
I threw a rock in the water.
The ripples made me reflect on my life.
A small child sitting very quietly in a corner, afraid to move or speak.
My
Mom sewing a dress.
Daddy will be coming home soon.
He is always drunk.
We must stay very quite.
Daddy gets
so mad and hits so hard.
I throw another rock in the water.
I'm a teenager now, watching my two sisters.
Daddy
has left home and will never come back.
Mom is so worried and sad.
There is no money and she has always been a stay
at home Mom.
Mom is getting job training and goes to work.
I take care of the girls, cook and clean.
Our house
is always sad.
No one prays or even acknowledges that there is a God.
I throw another rock, the ripples show me another
time.
I'm sixteen now and will be getting married soon.
My husband to be doesn't know God either.
I'm married
now but things aren't so good.
He hits me and once again I'm in the corner sitting quite and scared.
I don't want
to make him mad.
My husband is just like my Dad.
I didn't know there was a God to turn too.
I throw another rock
in the pond.
The ripples move again and I see a beautiful little girl.
She is my daughter and I love her with all
my heart.
Twenty months later I buried my daughter.
You see there was a fine.
I still don't know there is a God.
I only know I am angry and hurting.
I throw another rock in the pond.
I see a beautiful little boy.
He is
my son and I love him with all of my heart.
Things are good for a short time but then things change.
I still don't
know God and my son and I are angry and scared.
Too many beatings and no where to run.
The water ripples, and I see
the sun shinning on the pond.
You see God sent Claudia into my life to witness about God and I ask Jesus Christ into my
heart.
My life is filled with hope, peace, and joy.
I teach my son about God but he's so little he really doesn't
understand.
My husband gets really angry when I talk about God.
Though sometimes I'm black and blue I still have hope.
There is a God and he loves me just as I am.
I throw another rock in the water.
The ripples shine brightly, I'm free.
My husband gone never to return.
My son is eighteen and in the Marines.
He is in the Middle East and I pray constantly
to bring him home safe and for his salvation.
God hears my prayers and my son comes home safe and has given his heart
to Jesus.
I throw another rock, more ripples.
I'm lonely and pray that God would bring a good Christian man into my
life.
God is good and has walked with me even when I didn't know him.
He heard my prayers and sent Gary into my life.
We share our love for the Lord.
God doesn't want bad things to happen to us but we all have free will.
We have
to choose for ourselves who we want to walk with.
We can walk in the world and bring anger, sadness, and put ourselves
in harms way.
We can walk with the Lord.
Live by his word.
For by the grace of God we are saved through faith.
Praise be to God, forever and ever.
Praise the Father, Jesus our savior, and the Holy Spirit that lives in
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