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MARY PRIDDY'S
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For years I had such anger and
unforgivenss, but not at a person, it
was at God. I felt He had left me
many years before and that is why all
the bad stuff had happened to me. I
was so angry that my brother had
died at such a young age and I was so
Angry that my parents left me so
many times.
This anger and unforgivenss
separated me from God for many
years. In these years of separation I
was searching for that peace and joy
I had once known with God.
I searched nonstop with drugs and
men for this peace and joy and never
found it. I lost myself to the drugs,
while I was searching. I was like a
race horse running around and
around the same track but never to
reach the finish line, which to me
was that peace and joy.
Until one night I had reached my
point of desperation for freedom
from the drugs, that I swallowed my
pride and cried out to the God of my
childhood, the God I was so angry at.
I just knew that He had forgotten me
''He is standing nearby
to catch if you stumble
or to answer you if
you call.''
and that He would never answer me.
But He did and He did in such a
gently and loving way, It was like He
reached down from Heaven and
wrapped His loving Fatherly arms
around me and just held me as I
wept. I felt His love, at first it was
strange, but then it engulfed me and I
didn’t fight it but welcomed it. Gods
love is everlasting, No matter how far
in the depth of this worlds darkness
you may be or no matter if you too,
like me, was or is angry at God for
whatever reason He still Loves you.
He will take all your anger, and all
your hurt, and He will wrap you in His
arms and just let you cry and cry.
Then He will release you to stand on
your own once more, but He is not far
away at all. He is standing nearby to
catch if you stumble or to answer you
if you call. That is the Amazing,
unending, unconditional Love of our
Father God! Our God is the God of
Peace! The God of Love! The God of
Joy!
The God of Restoration! And with him
Nothing is ever impossible!
-Mary Priddy
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