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A prayer to trust God with your children by Victoria Rihlano, read by Liam Arton.

For I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor things

present nor things to come nor powers nor height nor depth nor any other created

thing will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our

Lord. Romans 8 38 through 39. I will never forget when my daughter started to have

seizures. A child who'd been in perfect health her entire life at the age of

four was hit with a daunting diagnosis epilepsy. Questions filled my mind daily. Would

she ever be able to drive? Would she be on medication her entire life? Would she be treated

differently? I wondered how and why God would allow this. I rationalized in my own mind

the cause of what seemed so unfair. Perhaps it was my own sin that caused this upon her

or maybe I'd upset God in some way. Although deep down I knew this wasn't God's punishment,

I couldn't help but want to get a final answer from God. During this time there were

many sleepless nights. I worried that at any time her next grandma's seizure would

end in death. The fear of losing her overtook me causing me to be anxious, depressed and

distant from others in my life. I had made up my mind my daughter would not die on my

watch. Yet after years of frustration the Lord spoke something to me very clearly. I love

your daughter more than you ever could. Will you trust me? I had never considered this

before. Yet the more I started to pray and seek him the more he revealed his undying

love for my daughter and myself. Not only did he love her, he knew everything about her.

Before she breathed her first breath he was there. Who she would grow up to be and her

inner thoughts none of them were a mystery to him. Psalm 139, 14-16 says it like this.

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