Author: E.Y. Redal

What in the World is Going on?

I am reading the book WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON, By Dr. David Jeremiah and in it he talks about many of the things that are going on. I am concerned, but not desperate.I know that God is in control but I can’t help thinking he wants us to stand up for him. We haven’t been you know. When our schools closed their eyes on God, prayer and even Santa, though I sure don’t know why, we didn’t stand up and say,”NO,” did we?

When we began killing babies before they had a chance to live we didn’t stand up and say, “No.”did we? When our government started spending money, and borrowing money in a crazy way, we didn’t stand up and say,”NO,” did we? And now we are paying for it. What if we go into a really bad depression? What if someone hit our electrical supply with a bad bomb and we were left without any electricity at all? I am old enough to remember that bad depression in the 20’s and 30’s and I wonder how many of us could handle that. Let me tell you a bit about that time.

I was just a little girl but I recall the stores being empty of things we really needed. I remember sitting down to the table to eat dinner and there was only a few crumbs to eat. And getting along without electricity was easy, we were used to having a hole under our kitchen floor to put our milk and eggs (If we had any) to keep cool.We were used to seeing at night by kerosene lamps. I doubt if we, in this modern age, could handle those things. We are too used to having things we want when we want them. We really think we need our cell phones, tablets and computers and couldn’t get along without them.

It’s time, it’s really high time, that we stand up for the things that are right. There is a right and a wrong way even if some say there isn’t. “Everything is relative” they say. We know if we read the Bible at all that they are wrong. There is good and evil, right and wrong. If you haven’t been reading the Bible It’s a good thing to start. You’ll find that it reads just like what is happening today.

She Keeps On Running!

My daughter is running in a marathon tomorrow. Her team will run in the Cascade mountains, up one hill and down another. She has run the Hood to Coast marathon two times and smaller marathons on several occasions. Whenever I ask her why she does this she answers, “I do it for God.”

She was born with Hydro Syphilitic disease, where a membrane is around the lungs so she couldn’t breathe. The doctor told us that if she didn’t break the membrane within three days she would die. She broke it on the third day! The doctor told us there might be brain damage but we were too excited to listen.

She was developing like any baby but when it came time for her to learn to walk, she just went around on her tummy pushing herself with her hands. Then came the running around to children’s doctors and getting no answers. One doctor said he might be able to fit her with braces when she reaches the age of ten.

One evening, because of a friend’s urging, we took her to a church where this friend said a visiting pastor was holding services. He was supposed to have the gift of praying to receive healing. We were quite skeptical of this but we went anyhow.

When the pastor prayed for our little girl, nearly three years old, she let out a scream and she kept screaming! I had a tough time getting her calmed down. We didn’t see any difference in her the day after the prayer. The next day we were at the park and she wanted to get out of her stroller. I put down a blanket for her to lay on but she would have nothing to do with that. The second I put her down on the blanket, she started to walk! She didn’t walk like a three year old child but like a baby just learning to walk. But she was walking and she has been walking and running ever since.

God healed her and that is a fact. She knows it too and she has been running marathons for God every summer since she has grown to be a lovely young lady.