Stones of Remembrance

By Sandra Hill

During times of despair, we often feel alone, like we are the only ones going through a horrific trial. It is at this specific time, when life has us in a chokehold, that we look to God and find that we are not the only ones in this predicament and that he is right there with us.
We need something to remind us of how we got over it the last time, perhaps a journal, a Scripture, or a special song to refer to in times of distress. These are stones of remembrance that will enable you to quiet the storms of life and control them instead of letting them control you.
This book is the basket of stones that helped me remember how I made it through and who helped me. I pray that this book will encourage readers to gather their stones and put them into a basket they can hold on to so they can remember how they overcame it the last time. And when you see someone else going through a storm, show them your basket that they, too, may find peace.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Sep 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781512701265

Sandra Hill

Sandra Hill is a graduate of Penn State and worked for more than ten years as a features writer and education editor for publications in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Writing about serious issues taught her the merits of seeking the lighter side of even the darkest stories.

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ISBN: 978-1-5127-0125-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5127-0126-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015920757

WestBow Press rev. date: 09/22/2016

CONTENTS

Foreword

Chapter 1 Am I Adopted?

Chapter 2 The Discovery Channel

Chapter 3 Going through Dry Places

Chapter 4 Deliverance

Chapter 5 The Balancing Act

Chapter 6 Fear of Falling

Final Thoughts

Poetry Corner

He Knew

You Came

Whom Do I Trust?

He Cares

Where Do I Go from Here?

I Should Have Known

Figure It Out for Myself?

You Guide Me Through

You Keep Me, Jesus

The Wait

Life Is a Maze, and All Its Paths Are Narrow

DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to my wonderful husband, Lamar David Hill. His love for me and patience with me (especially when it seemed as if I had lost my mind) is what kept me going in my early days as a Christian and is what still keeps me going.

Lamar’s understanding of the things I go through, even when I feel as if he just doesn’t have a clue, makes me tell him daily, I love you, man!

FOREWORD

When we become Christians (that is, when we become Christlike), we are often confronted with many obstacles in the realm of finances, health, family, and occupation. When facing all these hurdles, we have to either jump over them (knowing that sometimes they can be as tall as mountains) or find a way around them. We realize that there really is a higher power working in our lives to guide, keep, and strengthen us, if we allow him.

In Joshua 1:5, when God told Joshua to take the children of Israel into the Promised Land, he said, There shall no man be able to stand before thee all the days of your life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. God keeps all of his promises. In addition, he does not change.

In this book, you will read of the struggles that I have gone through and am going through now. (My struggles are similar to those that other Christians go through.) You will learn how God is able to bring a person through these trials.

I sometimes find myself sitting back and remembering the things that have happened in my life that should have taken me—that indeed were designed to take me—out of this world. However, God spared my life.

Now sit back and allow the Lord to minister to you from the pages of my life. You will realize just how much he loves you.

CHAPTER 1

Am I Adopted?

I come from a rather large family by today’s standards. During the time when I grew up, it was not unusual for a family to have more than four children.

In my family, there were twelve of us: seven girls (who were often called the seven gables), three boys, and of course my mother and father. We were a close-knit family. Our father taught us children always to look after each other and stay close to one another.

Whenever we would mention having friends, he would say that there were too many of us to even think about having friends. So we learned how to be friends to each other and how always to have each other’s back.

Our father was a military man who served in the United States Navy. He taught us to stay as close to our family as he stayed to his navy family. He later became a construction worker and continued in that profession until an accident forced him to go into early retirement.

Our mother was a seamstress. She often made clothes for us children using paper bags as patterns or using other methods to get things to fit.

Having to work as they did to support us, my parents found it hard to give us the