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Hello to all.....
In starting to tell you briefly of our testimony, we sat and
pondered what our testimony really was for and what we
wanted to represent to you about us. In thinking about this,
my favorite song came to mind,
Amazing Love how can it be
That you my King have died for me
Amazing Love I know its true
And its my joy to honor You.
In all I do, I honor You.
We realized that is what this ministry and our walk with God
has allowed us to see. In all we have done, we had not
honored Him. After having our 3rd daughter ( I previously
had 2 when we got married), we had questioned the idea and
thought of having another child. After speaking with our
doctor, he felt the only thing we could do was to have a
Tubal Ligation. This was due to the fact that most of the
birth control I had tried to use had issues with it. At that
time in our marriage and life, we were young in the Lord and
did not realize there was the "Great Advisor and Doctor"
above that we should have went to first. We spoke of wanting
more children but were mostly pressured into assuming this
was the only thing in our life that was possible for us at
that point.
It surprised me how fast the insurance company would pay for
this and with no problems. When the day came for the
surgery, I sat and looked out the window on the way to the
hospital thinking, "Why are we doing this?" and I could feel
my heart break and the tears slowly drop from my eyes as I
knew this was not what I should be doing. I looked over to
the trees and saw how alive they looked on that breezy,
sunny day. They were beautiful and that was something I knew
I was not feeling and would not feel for a long time. I
cried from that moment until I went home after the surgery.
Of all the hurtful things we have been through, taking the
ability to have children away was the worst. It was only
within our soul searching and following what God had planned
for us, that we were able to see that it was something we
knew we had to reverse and correct
Having shared that, I come back to
this beautiful and so true song above. God's love has been
amazing for us. There are many days we question how He could
have died for us considering the things that we have done to
Him. He is forgiving and faithful and I know He has plans
for our household to be complete in having this reversal. It
is His road that He has opened for us to follow. It is our
joy to follow Him and ask Him first now. We ask and wait to
hear His wonderful instructions. We do not solely rely on the
doctors, etc. but search within to see what beauty lies
next. My husband and I have been married 7 years and know
there are many more strong years ahead for us, regardless of
the stumbles that we may come upon. We were brought to
Blessed Arrows for more reasons than we have been shown so
far. We await to see what God has in store for us next!
Thank you all who are helping with
our funding and for your prayers. Soon, we will be complete
and feel that we are also a beautiful tree......alive and so
pure!
God bless
Donald and
Cherie Counts
12/2/04
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