When Vicki Bozeman's husband died, she needed some help.

I was very fortunate that my children took turns.

They moved in with me for about two months.

And my kids would come in and say, well, Mom, what's on the schedule today?

You know, that was their way of saying, we need to get up and about and get on with life.

And that was very helpful to me.

And then there came the time when I was saying to them, it's time for you to go home.

You know, it's time for you to get back to normal with your families.

And God and I are going to be able to walk

through this thing. He's going to take me through it. This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss

for Monday, July 27. Last week, we began listening to an interview Nancy recorded in 2006 with two widows,

Vicki Bozeman and Kathy Ferguson.

They were very hopeful about God's provision, but very honest about their pain.

Let's get back to that conversation. I'm thinking of that verse in Isaiah 45, verse 3,

I will give you the treasures of darkness, God says, so that you may know that it is I the Lord,

the God of Israel, who call you by your name.

The treasures of darkness.

You don't think of darkness as being the place where you want to be or eager to be. That's the picture of the aloneness.

And yet he says, in that place, God calls you by name. There's a presence there that makes that

darkness a place where you find treasure, and the treasure is Christ.

You know, I grew up in the church culture, and some of what I had to begin to do is kind of add some more complete meaning to some Bible words.

And those are some of those treasures, like the word grace, when it talks about grace being

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