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Ruth's Story ...
In her own words
MY PERSONAL
EXPERIENCE OF WIDOWHOOD
My ever-loving and
beloved husband, Rev.K.Singson, the then Executive Secretary of the North
East India General Mission, breathed his last on 31st December, 1979 in a
motorbike accident and went home to be with the Lord forever, and took his
eternal rest where there is endless joy and happiness, leaving his beloved
wife (myself), three little sons and two little daughters. At that moment I
was filled with unspeakable sorrow, calamity and amazement. I sat
heart-broken, having no understanding of the purpose why the Lord had
allowed such great calamity and unbearable sorrow to come in to our family.
I cried before the Lord day and night asking him to tell me the reason why
this had entered our poor home.
On that very day,
the word of the Lord through which He wanted to speak, came into my heart. I
read the same Bible verses in the midst of the many mourners who surrounded
me and the body of my beloved husband. "I will stand upon my watch, and set
me upon the tower, and will watch to see what He will say unto us, and what
I shall answer when I am reproved."(Hab.2: 1). The Lord had given many good
and comforting words to me, as if they were springs In the desert lands and
dry places. As space will not permit me to share all these things at this
time, I will relate only one of them.
One night when all
my little children slept in bed in 1982, I broke out weeping before the Lord
in that dark and lonely night, bringing the words of my complaint and said
this, "what should be
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