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Show PailieCaimmie ?5oi til X1RS DOROTHY SMITH, 1639 Fernote Street, Rahwsy. New Jer-IV Jer-IV I sey one night recently had a caller, a neighbor who had suffered deep personal tragedy just a year Bgo. Mrs. Smith thinks all of us can benefit by the attitude of her friend hence this story. Her husband had been instantly killed in an auto accident, leaving her with five small children. But she looked so well, that Mrs. Smith couldn't help remarking on her calm and contented appearance So the neighbor told this story; "After I lost John so suddenly and was faced with the almost Impossible task of raising five children alone, I was thrown into despair, darker than I thought existed. My days and nights were tormented with worry and fear, of the future; life held nothing for me. I completely forgot my children a ad the loss that they too had suffered. I think I would In time have lost my mind. "Then one night my oldest son asked me to CARNEGIE "bear" him while he recited some prayers that were to be said at a pageant. One of the prayers was the twenty-third Psalm. "As John began reciting The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want', i felt a remarkable lightness, almost as though someone had lifted a weight from me. I know now that God surely Intervened that night knowing bow desperately unhappy I was. I bought a copy of the Psalm and had it framed for my room. There it hung, and morning and night, comforting words to be able to read and to give me a sense of strength and courage. I'm not a deeply religious person and I doubt if I would have believed, a year ago, that such a small thing could perform the miracle it did, but I know now that the help I received from the words of that Psalm brought me back to sanity and Is helping me to be both mother and father to my children." Ves, we can all benefit by a story of overcoming fear and worry through confidence and faith in God. |