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August 9, 2002 - That's Incredible
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"You are going through trials and difficulties not because God has abandoned you, but that He has chosen you and called you to know His heart." ~Roy Lessin
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Welcome to new writer Annettee! Her first 2theheart story is of a mother's desperation to help her son and the miracle that met her on the way!
THAT'S INCREDIBLE
by Annettee Budzban
"We have seen wonderful and strange and incredible and unthinkable things today!" ( Luke 5:26 Amp)
I sat nervously around the table as I looked at the other parents. Some were in couples, but there were others alone as I was. As each parent started to tell their story I was thinking about how it would soon be my turn to speak, "What exactly would I say?"
I found myself sitting at the table of a "Tough Love" meeting. I was here following the advice of a friend who thought as a single parent of three teenage boys, maybe the support of a group might help me to be tough in the places I lacked being strict.
I had recently been praying about an issue over one of my sons who had been through an ordeal with drugs. I thought this demon was well behind us when all of a sudden I started getting hints of the problem returning. But I needed some harder evidence to get my son to confront his own sin.
My suspicion began to arise as he started receiving more phone calls than normal. Each time I would confront my son or the caller on the other end they would just say they were the friend of a friend. So I went to God in prayer with this issue and asked that He would somehow lead me to some cold hard evidence to confront my son with and prompt him to get help.
Confronting this issue alone was not easy. One day a friend of mine suggested that maybe I should try the counsel of a support group. I was uncomfortable with the idea for a while. Pondering the idea again, one day I decided it would not hurt to see what it was all about. Hence.... here I was.
My turn had now come to speak. Ignoring the butterflies in my stomach I simply said what was on my mind. I needed proof and support in confronting my son. I don't even remember the responses I received at the time, although I remember that each parent there was quite empathetic. But the meeting was not yet over. In fact it was just about to begin as soon as we would hear the next two parents finish their stories. I tried to get my mind off of me and listen attentively as the next two ladies would tell their tales. One was an update of what had happened since the week before, but the woman two seats down from mine was also new to the group. As she opened her mouth to speak, I was about to receive some INCREDIBLE news.
This woman was distraught and her story was very much like mine. Her son too was into drugs and she had caught him red-handed on the phone speaking to someone that could lead him to a source. She was out to get this perpetrator on the other end of the phone whose name was...
I looked over at her in amazement and interrupted her as I said to her, "That is my son!" The whole group gasped. It looked as though I now had my proof. How could this coincidence have come about?
I don't recall much of the rest of that meeting other than afterwards exchanging numbers and information with that mother.
With the help of the Lord , the rest of my story went well. The next day I laid the evidence out to my son and he relented to me. That day we went for drug rehab.
Today he is a responsible father of two children, has a stable job and a changed life. All due to the answer to a prayer, and my willingness to step out for some much needed support.
To this day I still stand in awe as I remember the hush at that table as everyone stared in amazement at what had happened, and our expressions saying.... "That's Incredible."
Annettee Budzban copyright 2002
ahrtwrites 2u@aol.com
Annettee Budzban is a mother and grandmother. She was a registered nurse but when unable to work due to illness started writing in answer to prayer. She started a writing ministry called, "Writings From The Heart ." Many of her devotions have now been published in her book, "Life Changing Inspirations."
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