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I learned about my personality type and I still love to discover
what other people’s personality types are. However, I realize that our
bodies and personalities are just a container. What’s in the container
– the Living Water Spirit of Jesus – is what’s most important. He
lives and walks through any kind of container, and miraculously
delights in doing so in spite of our talents, gifts and/or limitations!

Everything that I had judged in my own weak wisdom as
having been “bad” has worked out to be for His good. Romans 8:28
“And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to
those who love God, to those who are called according to His
purpose.” Fred was God’s perfect gift to me. The Lord probably
knew I needed some hard knocks to keep me from being increasingly
prideful in my own self efforts. In His mercy, He had me marry a
Christian, even though at the time, I could have cared less.

Even though Fred lived an emotionally tormented life, never
experiencing the peace of God until his last few months alive, he was
steadfast in his conviction that Jesus was his Lord and Savior. Our
marriage tribulations turned me more to my Savior. He showed me
that His grace was sufficient. 2 Cor. 12:9 “My grace is sufficient for
you, for power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I
will rather boast about my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may
dwell in me. Therefore, I am well content with weaknesses, with
insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for
Christ’s sake, for when I am weak, then I am strong.”

Fred now knows peace and his completeness in Christ. We
are perfectly connected in His love together in union with Jesus in our
eternal home. 1John 4:8 “…God is love.”

The Lord poured out His kindness on me even when I was
living in rebellion against Him. He blessed me with the gift of life
itself, with comforts that most of the world never experiences, and He
blessed me with the opportunity to have a family of my own. The
miracle gift of our son, Josh, is far too wonderful a miracle to ever
forget. The Lord’s graciousness overflowed into my thirsty soul.