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Food for Thought

Book Reviews
GEORGE

BY PETER STOFFBERG

ave you found yourself deliberately ignoring BUILD A MARRIAGE
the stories of pain, suffering or cruelty 4 WEEK COURSE: 9 JULY | 16 JULY | 23 JULY | 30 JULY
that surface in the media? They can be
Hdemoralising, and there’s so many of them.
But from time to time, a painful story brings amazing All welcome - dating; engaged; happily married; unhappily married
hope, like this story, about George.

George, the Jack-Russel cross Sausage Dog, was TOPICS INCLUDE:
abandoned in a shopping trolley. He was rescued and God’s plan for marriage
Gender roles
adopted into a loving home by Charmaine. At the time Commitment
of writing, she had a strong and unusual urge to take Communication
George for a walk at an unusual time, on an unusual Conflict resolution
route. Raising Godly Children
Financial faithfulness
As they passed a storm water drain, George went Intimacy
ballistic. Charmaine thought there was a cat inside,
but on closer investigation, heard the unmistakable
VENUE
cries of a human baby. She couldn’t get to the little Dainfern College
one through the heavy concrete slabs that covered TIME
the drain and so she franticly tried to stop passing 11.30 - 13.30 Four Free
motorists for help. Dates!
The person she managed to stop happened to have a
crowbar. How many people do you know who carry a
crowbar? Using it, they levered the concrete slabs aside
and rescued a little girl. The baby’s only covering was
vernix, the waxy substance that we’re insulated with at
birth. She was just a few hours old.

Charmaine wrapped her in her jersey, and with the help
of security guards and paramedics, got her to hospital For more info visit www.familychurch.online
where she’s recovering from hypothermia and growing
stronger by the day. But what about tomorrow, is there
hope for her? Coincidences, or all part of a plan?

Well, consider all the events that clicked together to Think about Jen Bricker, world famous gymnast who
get her this far. What if Charmaine hadn’t rescued and was given up for adoption when her parents saw that
kept George, or hadn’t taken him for a walk, or hadn’t she was born without legs. In her book, Everything is
taken that route at that time? What if the kind motorist Possible, she writes about asking her adoptive mother
didn’t stop or didn’t have a crowbar? How about the if her deformity was the reason her biological parents
jersey, security guards, paramedics and everyone else? gave her up. Her adoptive mom’s answer is astounding.

She explained to little Jen how long she had pleaded
and prayed to God for a baby girl. “Mommy’s tummy
was broken, and God found you a really nice lady with
a nice tummy so she could hold you until I could get to
you.”

The God of Hope, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, does
not plan evil. In all sorts of ways He works amazing
plans to rescue His children. We need to listen and
respond, and like Charmaine, and even George, we can
be part of His wonderful plans.

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