LET YOUR BITTERNESS GO - HOW TO TURN BITTERNESS INTO SWEETNESS (4)
Scripture: Hebrews 12:14-15
Title: Let Your Bitterness Go - How to turn Bitterness into Sweetness
Series: Let It Go
Author: Sammy Burgess
Text: Hebrews 12:14,15
INTRODUCTION:
[ILLUSTRATION]> You think you have seen it all. You
think you have heard it all until a story comes along that
is so bizarre, so surreal, and so breathtaking that you
realize you haven't.
It was Father's Day, 1999, Ron Shanabarger, jumped into
the shower and told his wife, Amy, to wake up their 7-
month-old boy, Tyler. When Amy walked into the
bedroom she found him face down in his crib stiff and
cold she screamed. Ron, told her to dial 911. When the
doctors examined the baby they said it was SIDS
(Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). They buried Tyler two
days later.
Hours after the funeral, Amy sat in her living room
sobbing. She was racked with guilt thinking she should
have checked on the baby more often during the night.
The night before Father's Day she had come home
exhausted. Ron had already put the baby to bed and she
went to sleep immediately.
As she sat on that couch weeping Ron sat down and told
her this unbelievable story. As that precious little 7
month old baby boy was playing with his feet in the crib,
Ron wrapped his head in plastic wrap, sat down and ate
dinner, brushed his teeth, and came back just in time to
see his little boy take his last breath. He removed the
wrap, turned the baby onto his stomach, switched off the
light, and went to bed.
Normally, he would always be the first one to go in and
wake Tyler up, but that Father's Day morning he asked
Amy to do it, because he purposefully wanted her to be
the one to discover the body. With a look of horror and
shock she asked him, ''Why?'' He said, ''Now we are
even.''
She said, ''Even for what?'' Ron then told her he had
never forgiven her for refusing to cut an ocean cruise
short with her parents to come home and comfort him
when his own father had died. He told her it was at that
point he decided to mar ...
Series: Let It Go
Author: Sammy Burgess
Text: Hebrews 12:14,15
INTRODUCTION:
[ILLUSTRATION]> You think you have seen it all. You
think you have heard it all until a story comes along that
is so bizarre, so surreal, and so breathtaking that you
realize you haven't.
It was Father's Day, 1999, Ron Shanabarger, jumped into
the shower and told his wife, Amy, to wake up their 7-
month-old boy, Tyler. When Amy walked into the
bedroom she found him face down in his crib stiff and
cold she screamed. Ron, told her to dial 911. When the
doctors examined the baby they said it was SIDS
(Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). They buried Tyler two
days later.
Hours after the funeral, Amy sat in her living room
sobbing. She was racked with guilt thinking she should
have checked on the baby more often during the night.
The night before Father's Day she had come home
exhausted. Ron had already put the baby to bed and she
went to sleep immediately.
As she sat on that couch weeping Ron sat down and told
her this unbelievable story. As that precious little 7
month old baby boy was playing with his feet in the crib,
Ron wrapped his head in plastic wrap, sat down and ate
dinner, brushed his teeth, and came back just in time to
see his little boy take his last breath. He removed the
wrap, turned the baby onto his stomach, switched off the
light, and went to bed.
Normally, he would always be the first one to go in and
wake Tyler up, but that Father's Day morning he asked
Amy to do it, because he purposefully wanted her to be
the one to discover the body. With a look of horror and
shock she asked him, ''Why?'' He said, ''Now we are
even.''
She said, ''Even for what?'' Ron then told her he had
never forgiven her for refusing to cut an ocean cruise
short with her parents to come home and comfort him
when his own father had died. He told her it was at that
point he decided to mar ...
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