The Master's Symphony: Our Story of Unconditional Love and Loss Woven for Eternity

By Diane Sibole

Do you believe that God can orchestrate the details of our lives and bring beauty in the ashes when we choose to surrender our lives to Him?

Friends, it took me a long time to understand this, but I can say that I have experienced beauty in the ashes firsthand. God brought us together for His ultimate purposes.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Sep 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685568641

Diane Sibole

Diane Sibole is a first-time author and fully surrendered daughter of Christ. She felt God's call on her life to write her story after the death of her loving husband, Tom, in May 2021. God has since used this story to move her and others towards healing, and she prays that future readers will also find hope and healing too.

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The Master’s

Symphony

Our Story of Unconditional Love and Loss

Woven for Eternity

Diane M. Sibole

The Master’s Symphony: Our Story of Unconditional Love and Loss Woven for Eternity

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Copyright © 2022 by Diane Sibole

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DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to my first loves, Papa God and His Son Jesus. I wouldn’t be the woman I am today without them carrying me through the valleys of shadows and ultimately trusting me with Tom.

To my husband and best friend, Tom Leon Sibole. I am so thankful he showed me the unconditional love of Jesus along with being my best friend. I loved laughing with him and will again someday in Heaven. It was my honor to love and walk this journey with him.

To my parents, Leon and Dorcas, who have shown me Papa’s love and have always been there for me in the good and the bad. I am so thankful for their continued love and support.

To my children and their significant others: Jeffrey and Katie, Cassie and David, and Christina and Colton. They have walked this tough journey with me, loved me, and supported me along the way. Thank you so much, and I love you all.

To my niece, Michaela, who helped me find the words with God’s help to write part of our story together. She is a beautiful writer, and you can find her blog at www.dogwoodcircle.com.

To all my family and friends who have walked by me through all this and fully supported what God has been doing in my life. Thank you so much.

And to you, the reader, I pray that through our story, you will see the glory of God and trust Him to walk you through healing and redemption. You are His beloved child, and He longs for you to have an abundant life in Him.

In loving memory of my soulmate,

best friend, and husband,

Tom Leon Sibole.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter 1: Touch of the Master’s Hand¹

Chapter 2: How Great Thou Art²

Chapter 3: The Marriage Prayer³

Chapter 4: Had It Not Been⁴

Chapter 5: Amazing Grace My Chains Are Gone⁵

Chapter 6: Scars in Heaven⁶

Chapter 7: It Is Well with My Soul⁷

Chapter 8: Friends⁸

Memories of Tom 5/5/21(Renfrow, 2021)

Time for Everything

Afterword

Tom’s Testimony at Our Church in November 2020

Music downloads

About the Author

Endnotes

Introduction

Do you believe that God orchestrates the details of our lives?

Do you believe that He will bring beauty out of ashes when we choose to trust Him? It took me a long time to understand this, but I can say that I have experienced it firsthand. This story that you are about to read is not just my story or my husband’s story, but ultimately it is God’s story of us. As you read it, you will see how God’s hand was weaving a cord of three strands together into one beautiful and unbroken connection. I would have never believed that from my ordinary story to Tom’s ordinary story, God could turn it into an extraordinary love story, beauty from ashes. Does it turn out to be, and they lived happily ever after? Unfortunately, not on this earth but someday in Heaven. What God has joined together, no man can separate. I am so thankful that I will forever be a cord of three strands with my best friend for all eternity. I know that we will no longer be husband and wife but so much more.

For both of us, our relationship felt like a fairy tale since we both had been waiting for the one who would want us for happily ever after. But God’s love story for us wasn’t a fairy tale. It was real.

"Once in a while,

right in the middle of an ordinary life…

love comes along and brings you a fairy tale."

(This is a framed word picture in our apartment that we bought to describe how we felt about our relationship.)

I lived my whole life not truly understanding what love is. Don’t get me wrong, I had loving parents who pointed me to the love of Jesus, but