Dieu peut tout faire - God can do all things
Several times in the past I have mentioned my colleague, Weléli and her husband Charles. Since their relocation to Bordeaux, she has become my best friend here. We work together every day, our desks facing each other in the same room. We talk for hours, and slowly over the past few weeks, we have talked about more personal and painful details of our lives.
One day she told me that over her 8 years of marriage, she has been unable to conceive. After consulting doctors, she and her husband tried in-vitro fertilization three times, but that was unsuccessful. They finally gave up, not able to handle emotional roller-coaster any more. She is 42 years old, but believes that with God anything is possible. She and her husband have wept, prayed, fasted, and trusted God for the past 8 years. When she was telling me all this, my heart broke for her pain.
Weléli is a former Muslim who moved to France to be a live-in babysitter for her sister already living here, 15 years ago. When she converted to Christianity, her family turned their backs on her. It was even worse when she announced that she was going to marry her husband, a Christian from Gabon. Her family not only refused to come to her wedding or even recognize her husband, her mother told her that she had placed a curse on her to never have children. Weléli confessed to me that for years she prayed to get pregnant as a sign to her mother of God’s true power. However, she said that she finally felt that “vengeance” of that sort wasn’t an appropriate prayer. I could understand how she felt, though.
I’m writing this because I know that God is a God of miracles and He is capable of anything. I believe that prayer works, too. Some of you that faithfully read this blog may be touched personally by her situation and I hope that you will pray for her and her husband.
One day she told me that over her 8 years of marriage, she has been unable to conceive. After consulting doctors, she and her husband tried in-vitro fertilization three times, but that was unsuccessful. They finally gave up, not able to handle emotional roller-coaster any more. She is 42 years old, but believes that with God anything is possible. She and her husband have wept, prayed, fasted, and trusted God for the past 8 years. When she was telling me all this, my heart broke for her pain.
Weléli is a former Muslim who moved to France to be a live-in babysitter for her sister already living here, 15 years ago. When she converted to Christianity, her family turned their backs on her. It was even worse when she announced that she was going to marry her husband, a Christian from Gabon. Her family not only refused to come to her wedding or even recognize her husband, her mother told her that she had placed a curse on her to never have children. Weléli confessed to me that for years she prayed to get pregnant as a sign to her mother of God’s true power. However, she said that she finally felt that “vengeance” of that sort wasn’t an appropriate prayer. I could understand how she felt, though.
I’m writing this because I know that God is a God of miracles and He is capable of anything. I believe that prayer works, too. Some of you that faithfully read this blog may be touched personally by her situation and I hope that you will pray for her and her husband.