God’s Great Love
This is my memoir I’ve been working on. I hope you enjoy it!
God’s Great Love
By: Sarah Kass
Though bad things happen, God will be with us. That is God’s great love for us. God tells us in his word that he will “never leave us or forsake us.” He is always by our side even when bad things happen.
When a family member is ill, God is there. Like when you break a bone, God is there. Maybe your parents are fighting a lot. God will always be just a whisper away. He is always watching and caring for you. Even when you don’t know that God is really there and bad things happen. In other words, God is always by our side. These are examples of God’s love for us.
Like a sticker and a piece of paper, God is stuck on you with his love. You know when you rub a balloon on your hair, and when you pull the balloon away, the hair wants to be by the balloon? God is the hair and you and your problems are the balloon. Only this time the “balloon” doesn’t get very far. The hair is a symbol for God’s great love for us.
In hard times life will go on. Maybe some changes will happen. That’s okay. Through the whole ordeal, God has been watching and loving you.Things will get better, because of God’s love for us. God has been with you this whole time. Every step of the way. This is one way how God shows his great love.
I wish that ‘God always loves us’ had been the first thing in my mind when my grandma Mimi got off the phone. When she said the fateful words. When we held back our tears. I did not feel God’s great love right then, though it was there for sure.
“Uh huh… oh my… oh no… bye.”
The phone clicked off. I stopped what I was doing and turned around.
“Who was that?” Those words are usually the first words out of my mouth when someone gets off the phone.
“Aunt Myrna,” my grandma replied. I knew. I knew why Aunt Myrna had called.
“What’s the deal with Ellie?” I held my breath. When Mimi said the word, it hit me like a slap in the face.
“Cancer…” After that I tuned out for a minute. Granny O, Granny O, Granny O, Granny O. That’s the only thing running through my mind. Granny O had died of cancer. I’m back as soon as I went away. I still have Granny O on my mind though. She was my great-grandma. About 4 years ago Granny O had died. She had had stomach cancer for a few months.
One day, I came home from school and mom sat down on the couch. She tearfully and quietly told me that Granny O had died, and that she had seen Granny O take her last breath. I didn’t see why I couldn’t have seen Granny O take her last breath. It felt like my life was shattered.
God had been with us during that time. He had loved us. He still loved us. Things got better because God loved us. Now he was testing us again.
My grandpa Pops started to tear up.
“What kind?” I asked quietly.
“We don’t know anything more then it’s cancer at this point. The leg pain is because of a large tumor on that side of her hip.The leg tumor is connected to one they just found on her back. The doctors just don’t know what to do,” Mimi responded quietly.
In other words, Ellie was sick and no one knew what she had. So they couldn’t do anything until they knew what was wrong.
“She is going to die.” The first words out of my grandpa’s mouth stunned me.
“David! She will not. Don’t say those kind of things.” My grandma was a little upset at Pops. So was I.
“I’m just saying. No answers mean no treatment. If they don’t find out what it is soon, she could die.”
“Don’t say that word again!” Mimi practically screamed the words at Pops. I wanted to let my tears flow. I held back though.
My dad came to pick us up soon after the incident. I had been at my grandma and grandpa’s house when this happened. I got in the house, got ready for bed, and told Dad what I knew. That night, I cried myself to sleep.
God’s great love was still with us.
When I got the announcement, I freaked out. We had no answers at the time. Was God with us? He was. Did God still love us? He did.
Looking back, I could’ve thought ‘God and his great love will be with us’. I didn’t though. But God had been and still is with us the whole time. He still loves us all the time. This verse has made it’s way into my life: “He will never leave you or forsake you.”
Deuteronomy 31:6
Now I know. God is with us. Always. He loves us. Always.
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