The wicked are like the...
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"The wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters toss up mire and dirt." The wicked are torn, a mighty struggle going on within.
A middle-aged woman was observed by the pastor to be a deeply troubled person. She was always struggling to find peace with God, but could never find it -- either with God on with herself. Finally, late one night she phoned and came to the pastor's house, and there she told him him of an awful secret that troubled and burdened her.
Some years earlier, as a young working wife, ambitious, married to a fine young husband who looked forward to having children, she became pregnant. She never told her husband; and, unwilling to have her career interrupted, and wanting to postpone having babies until later, she secretly had an abortion. The third rate doctor who did it bungled the operation so badly that she would never again in her life be able to have children. And now for 16 years she had carried this burden, all the while her husband wanting children and wondering why they never came. Although for many months the pastor labored diligently to be helpful, nothing came of it.
-- Mann
A middle-aged woman was observed by the pastor to be a deeply troubled person. She was always struggling to find peace with God, but could never find it -- either with God on with herself. Finally, late one night she phoned and came to the pastor's house, and there she told him him of an awful secret that troubled and burdened her.
Some years earlier, as a young working wife, ambitious, married to a fine young husband who looked forward to having children, she became pregnant. She never told her husband; and, unwilling to have her career interrupted, and wanting to postpone having babies until later, she secretly had an abortion. The third rate doctor who did it bungled the operation so badly that she would never again in her life be able to have children. And now for 16 years she had carried this burden, all the while her husband wanting children and wondering why they never came. Although for many months the pastor labored diligently to be helpful, nothing came of it.
-- Mann
