This could be any of us.....

I used to be a stay at home mom  with a four bedroom house, two cars in the garage, a boat parked on the lake, three children and a wonderful husband. I was the vice-president of the Garden Club, PTO chairman, volunteered at the local library, was both room and team mom for my son and daughter.  I was the  leader of our local neighborhood association, our home had a revolving door when it came to the children and we hosted many community parties. I thought I had it all until........  the day the doorbell rang. As I opened it there stood a police officer ready to inform me that my husband and children were killed in an automobile accident. That was the day my downward spiral began........

In the next few days my house was filled with our friends and family , holding me up as my world fell apart. After that in the weeks and months that followed, I discovered that things were not as they had appeared.. Slowly the house, the cars, the boats, the positions I held, the friends and the family disappeared. I was left with nothing, with no where to call home. I had heard about homeless people but never dreamed that I would be one. As I wondered the streets asking often begging for help people turned me away and on the streets those who were once my friends would now cross the street to avoid me. Terrible things happened to me night after night , many of which landed me in the hospital. Its those time when I was actually glad  because I got to sleep in a warm bed and have a few hot meals. Over time I became detached, depressed and felt as though I was not worthy to live this life I had. I was no more than a dangerous animal on the prowl.

The times in which I was able to sleep I wondered why did this happen, how did this happen, was this the end of my life as I knew it and then one day a hand reached down and picked me up, held me close and whispered these words to me "I will never leave you"  Commit those 5 words  to memory for they are words that can  save you... if you remember no  matter what you are going through, no matter how dark the tunnel may seem there is a light at the end... his name is JESUS


NOTE: This story is fictitious but is filled with many real events that lend truth to the title "THIS COULD BE ANY OF US"  It is my prayer that you realize how blessed you  are in  that God chose to give you life and what he gives life to he equips them with everything to live that life.