Wow, what a wonderful story "Jimmy's letter to Sally" is of how God comes in and comforts us in the worst of times in our lives, because He knows and understands how we feel.  I so firmly believe in these kinds of interventions, because I heard of so many of them by mature, well balanced, solid Christians.  If I may, I would like to share one of our own personal experiences. 

Our son passed away in 1977 at the tender age of 4 months, from what was then called "crib death".  It??™s a story of how our Lord showed us that He understands.

Jonathan was our first child and was a very healthy baby full of joy and life.  Then one morning, he suddenly left us.  I can't begin to tell you the trauma it caused us because you see, we were new babies in the faith ourselves.  And the church that we went to at that time didn't believe in miracles, and even less in manifestations of the Lord (and we believed what the church believed). About a week after his departure, while our lives were still heavily troubled because we couldn't understand why such a thing would happen to us, that's when God intervened.

While my wife was laying in bed one afternoon trying to make sense of it all, she was lying on her back Looking at the white wall in front of her when it got extremely shiny and bright. Then she heard this indescribably soothing voice telling her: "Don't be afraid, just trust in me. I am here with you and I understand".

She then said that she felt this indescribable feeling of comfort and peace that invaded her. After she shared this with me, the same feeling came over me and peace came into our lives. Although we still miss him today, (God gave us 2 more awesome boys after that) I can say that since then, we never asked God the question "why?".  We knew that Jonathan was safe in His loving hands, in spite of what our church believed.  Johanne said that she was not sure if she was awake at that time, so she decided to pinch herself to see if she would feel the pain. She did and as you guessed it, she felt the pain so she knew that this was for real, that she was not dreaming. As to the validity of this "apparition" or "manifestation"' the Bible tells us that we shall know a tree by the fruits that it bears. All I can say is that it brought us a lot of much needed comfort and peace in our lives.

The Lord also tells us "I shall never leave you nor forsake you", and let me tell you that

for us, at that moment, that phrase and promise became real for us. Thank you so much Paulette for sharing this awesome, encouraging uplifting testimony with us today. God is so good. May our loving Father in heaven richly bless you. Also thank you so much, Bob for sharing this with us. God bless you too.

Ray Duff
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