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Hi!
My name is Charles Pedley. So why should you care? You may regret ever coming to my site!
Okay so you get it that the website is my name and I don’t need to tell you my name. So I won’t tell you that my name is Charles Pedley. Okay? Don’t blame me! I warned you!
My experiences are wide and varied: I have just recently written a book called, Joyful Mourning, A True Love Story.
Various individuals have seen or heard parts of it as I tried to decide if it should be published. I received comments like “You sure know how to make me want to read the next chapter!”
I use the story of my daughter, Rebecca, 26, who lost her husband to Hodgkin’s disease, a form of cancer, to explain the grieving process and how God wants to use losses in our lives to become closer to us.
I tell the story of how they met [a divine coincidence which I call a Godincidence], married, and were parted. I pause to bring comfort to those with like experiences by explaining the grieving process that all who lose something or someone precious to them, MUST go through.
It is filled with stories from my own experience of God teaching us HOW to grieve, live, and survive as my daughter, Rebecca did, and as we did with her as we got hope from every new treatment, only to lose it as Tedd would get sick again.
You may think this sounds like a terrible tragedy. And it could be called that. However God taught Rebecca and we, her parents to be closer to Him than we ever were before. And THAT is the desire of GOD for EVERY ONE OF US. There is NO tragedy in that experience!
I asked God once a few months after Tedd passed away, “God, you knew Tedd was going to die in the end. Why did we have to go through 4 years of hope and and loss if Tedd was only going to die anyway?”
The answer came to my mind as clear as if he were there in my van with me [Well actually He was!].
“So that YOU might be found faithful.” To know more about the significance of that you can read the summary of the book here.
The amazing story of how my daughter went through this and the miracles she experienced from her point of view is here.
Six months after they were married, the disease was discovered. He went through treatments and remissions for almost four years. He was a most unusual young man as most people I know who have serious cancer die in the first year after diagnosis. He passed away 3 days before their 4th wedding anniversary.
But that almost four years was filled with joy as well as sadness...
To read the rest of the story, click here....
To NOT READ THE REST OF THE STORY, GO AWAY!
[No hard feelings. We can’t all be smart. (:-)]
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