Category: Dealing with Loss
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Miracles are easy, it’s the impossibilities that takes longer
2017 was a life changing year. It’s the year when we took the 7-week-old Daniel into foster care in February and then Leah and Tobi in July, just 4 weeks old. Leah had major health complications and it took 4 and a half years of admissions and multiple surgeries at the Red Cross War Memorial…
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I could not Bargain with God…
My brother had cancer and I asked God to heal him. In a letter, on 14 December 2019, I promised God that I will be a witness for Him if He healed my brother. I emphasized that it will be an added bonus if he lived and both of us can testify in our Christian…
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Bad Things Happen to Good People!
My parents were pensioners residing in Villiers, a small town in the Free State Province of South Africa. My dad, Jannie, was 76 years old and my mother, Mollie, was 72 years old. On the 25th of January 2001 at 5 in the afternoon my phone rang, it was my brother in law from Springs,…
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His Life’s Work Was Done. A True Disciple of Jesus. My Soldier.
ROMANS 5:3-5 “We also boast of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance, endurance brings God’s approval and His approval creates hope. This hope does not disappoint us, for God has poured out His love into our hearts by means of the Holy Spirit, who is God’s gift to us.” My name is…
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Our Surplus in Heaven
On the 27th of June 2018 my husband, Reon and I were blessed with a beautiful baby boy, Hugo. I had a perfectly healthy pregnancy and our son is a perfectly healthy, growing 16month old boy. Earlier this year we started praying about baby number 2. We decided to leave it all in the Lord’s…
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I Blamed God…but He Forgave me
On Monday morning, 11 February 1980, my son, Gerrie, 7 years old and a Grade 2 learner in Dagbreek Primary School, Carltonville, was hit by a car and fell off his bike. The school bus, driven by the Principal, Mr Oberholzer, could not stop in time and the back wheel of the bus went over…
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Where is God?
This thought takes me back to Grade 8 when I was still young, coming out of a loving home and very close family (a mommy’s boy). This was the year for the big move in my life to go to boarding school, the smallest guy in the school, lost between all these big peers around…
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A Tribute to Jaqi
Jaqi was referred to us when we needed to design the Testimony Treasures website. From the first time that I met her I was impressed with the friendly, deeply kind, soft hearted person that she was. Over the last few years she designed two more websites for us and I got to know a little…
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Indeed He hears our prayers
In 2002 my brother and his wife died in a tragic incident. I got the phone call around midnight. At the time they were living in Margate, approximately 800km from us. Our father lives with us and I had the daunting task to inform him of his son’s passing. I recall waking him up and…