In the book The Truth Comes Out, Nancy Heche relates her story. She is the mother of Anne Heche, who proclaimed her affair with Ellen DeGeneres to the world in 1997. That announcement had been preceded 14 years earlier by the death of Nancy’s husband of 25 years; he died of AIDS, having had homosexual affairs since before they married – and she hadn’t known! Three months after Nancy’s husband died, their only son, a senior in high school, was killed in a car accident. They had lost their second child many years earlier at two months because of congenital problems. And not very long after Anne’s announcement, Nancy’s oldest daughter, Susan, was diagnosed with a brain tumor; she died a year ago.
The consistent thread running through Nancy’s account is what God needed to do in her. She shared her painful story vulnerably and honestly, but seeing God’s work in her almost made the circumstances non-issues, or at least, though so very painful, her circumstances have been instruments God has lovingly chosen to use in her life to craft her into the person He longs for her to be.
Is God wanting to use a current circumstance in your life, in my life, for our good, the good of others and for His glory? I’d like to hear your story and share it with others through this blog.. Would you write me at olaf.burwick@gmail.com ?
The consistent thread running through Nancy’s account is what God needed to do in her. She shared her painful story vulnerably and honestly, but seeing God’s work in her almost made the circumstances non-issues, or at least, though so very painful, her circumstances have been instruments God has lovingly chosen to use in her life to craft her into the person He longs for her to be.
Is God wanting to use a current circumstance in your life, in my life, for our good, the good of others and for His glory? I’d like to hear your story and share it with others through this blog.. Would you write me at olaf.burwick@gmail.com ?
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