Tell your story
October 31, 2017
Do you want to communicate God’s love to people quite different from you. I was invited to speak to widows in Ouagadougou Burkina Faso. Several hundred young widows packed into an open air church. My great desire as the speaker was for them to know how much God loved them and cared for them in their challenging circumstance. I told them I did not know their lives, their culture, but I like they had buried my husband. A hush was palpable. We shared the look of knowing, of mutual compassion.
I taught from the stories of the widow of Zarepath and the widow and her pot of oil. These stories bridged the cultural divide of my life and theirs. This widow sharing mutual loss told the biblical widows stories. God connection through telling the story.