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Be Not Afraid In God's Handsfrom ward to ward, trying to cheer up fellow hospitalpatients. When the impossibility of having children hithome, she resisted self-pity, and suggested to Sergeithat they try to adopt a child. As often happens, theirattempts were soon snarled by red tape, but that didn’tstop them. Sergei even brought home a crib, and Adelaprepared a layette. But nothing ever came of it.In January 1989, after three years of marriage,Adela passed away. Shortly before, she wrote to herhusband:Please, when I die remember that I was no hero, that Icouldn’t always accept God’s will, that I was a sinner, thatI failed in service and love to others, that I knew despair,depression, fear and doubt, and other temptations ofthe devil. Remember, too, that I loved laughter betterthan tears, that you can die with cancer but you can alsolive with it and joke about it. Please don’t keep thingsbecause I made them or wrote them. They are onlyearthly things and nothing special. Remember ratherthat God’s will has no “why?” – that his way is best,always; that he loves us even when we don’t love him,and that in the church you never stand alone; that hopeis greater than despair and faith is greater than fear, andthat God’s power and kingdom one day will be victoriousover everything…100