[ame=http://youtu.be/_oyHpLg32c8]Surrender | Lincoln Brewster - YouTube[/ame]
I remember many years ago a young girl who was raised in a very staunch Roman Catholic family - her grandparents highly respected within the church every eye was on her to be perfect - or so it felt at the time - but her own mother was very cruel and full of rage - the family protected their secrets as if reputation were the only thing that mattered. It was a counterfeit holiness but the young girl didn't understand that and was in despair. Then one day she was climbing a fence to get off school property and her hand was torn open by the prongs at the top. After receiving stitches the day came to have them removed. Then someone dropped her off at her mothers work place. She was wearing scruffy bell bottom jeans and a gauze shirt.. she did not look like her mothers daughter - indeed she didn't look like her at all. A very beautiful woman came into the lobby dressed to the nines, perfect from head to toe.....she said to the girl, You didn't tell anyone you are my daughter, did you? The girl said, no. The mother said, good! Go sit in my car and wait for me and do not tell anyone you are my daughter! The girl said, okay. She went to the car and waited and then was taken to the doctor by the mother. The family went to mass every Sunday and the priest gave the sermons but the girl no longer heard anything. She never heard anything again because she could not accept the hypocrisy of it all. The girl turned to drugs to kill the pain and to shut out the memories of a very bad beginning....... in life. Then one day, Jesus invited her to come to him and although she resisted for awhile - he convinced her of his love and she came to him and he accepted her just as she was..and after many trials and tests on their relationship the girl accepted that this man, Jesus from Galilee, was most sincere in his perfect love toward her and then she surrendered all to him. Now the girl no longer needs the love of any human because Jesus is her constant companion. He hears her every prayer, he heals her every wound. She has been made whole. What Jesus did for that girl he will do for anyone. Because it never was about religion. It is only about one thing. Reconciliation & relationship.
- Karen
