Terry.

Journey with me...

You wake up one morning, to a family. Two beautiful daughters and a loving spouse... You go to work, only to discover that you don't have a job anymore.

Unsure of what the future may hold, you decide to take your family to the Sunshine State for a vacation.

While on this vacation, you get a call that there was a fire at your home. What would you do?

You decide to travel back to your home state alone, just to take care of things and then return to your family... The fire was much worse than you could've imagined. Everything is destroyed.

Devastation takes on a whole new meaning.

Nonetheless, you return to your family.

In the meantime, when you're trying to pick up the pieces from one disaster, another strikes.

You're in the car with these three, your spouse & two beautiful daughters... There's an accident.

You're the only survivor. Left in a coma for months, your life, everything is meaningless.

Hopeless, and in shambles, you discover that you'll get no insurance money for the fire, and the state claimed what was left of your 'home.'

You still have a car, so you'll sleep there. Hundreds of miles from home, in this Sunshine State you're overcome with hurt and loneliness.

How could there possibly be a God who would allow this sort of thing to happen?

But these people tell you that they love you, (& they really do - it shows). And they say that they love you because this Jesus loved them first.

Just when you think that you're going to get off the streets, stop having to sleep in your car, go live with a relative, you find out that relative has died. Just a few short days after you spoke to her.

Finally, one night you talk with these people who've taken you into their home & shown you that love isn't just a word... they pray for you. They ask you if you want to maybe try to believe that this 'God-man' - Jesus - has a better life for you.

You decide to pray and get 'saved'.

These people meet you with hugs and tears and joy.



His name is Terry. He's a friend of mine. He decided this week to try to pursue Jesus.
Pray for him, that he will grow & fall in love with Jesus.
Terry told me yesterday that he didn't know what to do when I hugged him for the first time, so many months ago; I was the first person to hug him in about 20 years.

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
We love because HE first loved us.