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Hello,
my name is Mrs. Sharon Merhalski, I just poured a cup of gourmet coffee
and I begin this introduction still in awe that this dream of my heart has
come to fruition. I begin this
path realizing the responsibility that I have to God to always glorify Him
in all things. I begin today
realizing that I cannot in myself, without the leading and teaching of the
of the Holy Spirit and the precious Words of God, do anything that will
glorify my Abba Father. |
"LORD, let me seek Thee in longing,
Let me long for Thee in seeking,
Let me find Thee in love And
love Thee in finding."
---Anselm
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"Lord, please fill me, humble me in all things,
and enable me to be the kind of Titus
2 woman that You need me to be. Please
Lord, help me always be mindful of my responsibility to "...comfort them which
are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God."
(IICorinthians :1:4b) "And of some have compassion, making a difference:: (Jude
22)
(Some
articles were written during the last sixteen years and thus may offer some
redundant testimony .)
My testimony of the first twenty-one years of my life is not full of good things
because I was raised in a very dysfunctional home. Therefore I want to begin
by telling you that God has worked overtime in my life to make me a very optimistic,
happy, joyful, thankful, trusting ,and serving woman. About twenty
years ago my pastor asked me if there was anything I would change about my life
if I could. I stunned him with the word, "no". In the deep, deep valleys
of my life God has been so very precious to me. As I have taken the time
to listen to and for His
still small voice, and as I have searched the scriptures and worshiped him
in silence, My LORD has, in spite of myself, taught me, shown me, loved
me, kept me, and ever-burdened my heart for others who hurt.
I was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
53 years ago. The family that God
chose to place me in I would never have chosen for myself. My mother and father were not Christians. My mother was a very bitter woman who delighted in doing evil deeds. Her life taught me the reality that bitterness is truly worse than cancer.
I grew up in the bay area of California. I was there when the end of the Polio epidemic claimed me for a victim. While growing up I attended a couple of Baptist churches as a bus kid and accepted Christ
when I was fourteen years old. When
I was twenty-one I met my very handsome, very polish, and very Catholic husband soon after he returned from Viet Nam.. For the first time in my life I felt unconditionally loved and accepted.
We were married in the Catholic church in 1969. The following year my husband accepted the Lord as His Saviour, we both
dedicated our lives to God, and our son was born. Five and a half years later
God entrusted us with our daughter by adoption.
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