The Day I Learned To Read The Book Of Romans

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As I read the book of Romans strange things started happening to me. The day before class I set out to look for the new Iphone. On my trip out I came across a girl that I’ve never met before and she had a special message for my husband she told me to tell him “ They don’t blame him for Baileys death and they want him to come around and want to meet his family and his kids.” This girl happened to be the younger sister of one of his best friends Bailey…. Before Devin turned 21 he and Bailey were out drinking at a shithole little bar in the country, when they left Bailey dropped Devin off at home and he left and headed home, Bailey was drunk and hit and killed a tree on the way home and died. Devin woke up to a death of his best friend for 5 years …show more content…
A few weeks ago I was getting a tattoo that was pink so I had my artist put a pink ribbon laced through “faith.” She said I like that I told her why I had got it and my grandma was pissed with me. She then told me “I can see why she was mad, but I also know why you did what you did. I am a breast cancer survivor I won’t do the walks and all of the fuss about it. I know why your grandma was mad and I understand why you did it. “I’ve fought it my 16 year old daughter wouldn’t even talk to me when I was diagnosed but all you can do is fight, fight like hell and stay around and live.” She then told me that she lost her best friend recently to it, she was having chest pains like she worked out too hard and it took her doctor 3 months to get her in and by then it was too late. She told me if I ever feel weird in my chest to fight it and make sure I am seen right away and if I ever needed anything I could come to her. Why in one day did I feel the pain of two other women, why did such bad painful things happen to these two amazing people? Who is trying to tell me something and what is it I am supposed to be carrying …show more content…
That I choose to love women as much as I love men and to choose to be with them still, and drink and party and love money and spend it like it’s going out of style. Yet I read that “You cannot repair your relationship with God through your good deeds; this is only accomplished through faith in the perfect and finished work of Jesus Christ.’ I asked my husband when I got home if god would ever forgive us, I also said “ I am not done sinning yet, I’ll ask for forgiveness when I’m

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