We went to visit Ann last Sunday.
Ann's husband died exactly a year ago. Ann looked good, healthy with her hair growing back.
Her son and daughter looked happy, both doing well at school and at work.
Ann prepared a curry dish and we shared a meal together and caught up with life since her husband passed away. She has renovated her house which looked beautiful and modern with lots of flowers and plants flourishing in her home reflecting her new life since her husband's sudden death last year.
I was happy to have visited her on her husband's first anniversary of passing.
Ann had endured much mental and verbal abuses from her husband for a long time. She had hope of reconciliation and dreams that her husband would one day turn away from what he did and come back to her.
It never happened. He insisted on a divorce which would mean forcing her and the children to move away from the family home. Ann never wanted a divorce. She kept hoping for a normal family life with her husband and kids.
Exerting constant pressure and demanding a divorce from her, Ann's husband did many unkind things and spoke to her with profane and abusive words in front of her children. Ann was suffering tremendously in this loveless marriage.
While the domestic situation was worsening at home, Ann was diagnosed with breast cancer and she had to bear the terrible side effects of the chemo treatment. At the same time she learned that her husband had been mistreating her because there was another woman in his life.
Things could not have gotten any worse for Ann. However, she held fast to God believing that God would never abandon her.
Ann's husband continued his demand relentlessly to have her signed the divorce paper and served her an ultimatum last February. Unable to withstand the persistent bombardment of harassment, Ann finally caved in and agreed to a meeting signing the divorce paper at the lawyer's office.
A year ago last Wednesday, she was supposed to finalize the divorce by signing all the necessary paper work. A devout Christian, Anne believed that marriage was for life and she did not want a divorce. She was very sad and called me to pray with her as the signing date got closer. We did. We prayed crying out to God for strength and justice.
On the Saturday before the Wednesday when the divorce paper was to be completed, a police officer knocked on Ann's door. He informed Ann that her husband had a massive heart attack at a restaurant a few hours before and died at the hospital later.
The Wednesday's meeting at the lawyer never took place. The divorce paper was never signed. There was no divorce. Ann was still the wife to her estranged husband, with a legal claim to the family's main asset, the family home in Toronto.
Ann inherited the house; she and the two children are able to continue to live in their family home without having to endure the tyrannical and abusive behaviour of her late husband. Though the younger daughter still misses her dad, Ann and the children can enjoy some stability, peace and harmony at home.
Yes, Jehovah, our God is a God of justice!
R.T.
Toronto
Ann's husband died exactly a year ago. Ann looked good, healthy with her hair growing back.
Her son and daughter looked happy, both doing well at school and at work.
Ann prepared a curry dish and we shared a meal together and caught up with life since her husband passed away. She has renovated her house which looked beautiful and modern with lots of flowers and plants flourishing in her home reflecting her new life since her husband's sudden death last year.
I was happy to have visited her on her husband's first anniversary of passing.
Ann had endured much mental and verbal abuses from her husband for a long time. She had hope of reconciliation and dreams that her husband would one day turn away from what he did and come back to her.
It never happened. He insisted on a divorce which would mean forcing her and the children to move away from the family home. Ann never wanted a divorce. She kept hoping for a normal family life with her husband and kids.
Exerting constant pressure and demanding a divorce from her, Ann's husband did many unkind things and spoke to her with profane and abusive words in front of her children. Ann was suffering tremendously in this loveless marriage.
While the domestic situation was worsening at home, Ann was diagnosed with breast cancer and she had to bear the terrible side effects of the chemo treatment. At the same time she learned that her husband had been mistreating her because there was another woman in his life.
Things could not have gotten any worse for Ann. However, she held fast to God believing that God would never abandon her.
Ann's husband continued his demand relentlessly to have her signed the divorce paper and served her an ultimatum last February. Unable to withstand the persistent bombardment of harassment, Ann finally caved in and agreed to a meeting signing the divorce paper at the lawyer's office.
A year ago last Wednesday, she was supposed to finalize the divorce by signing all the necessary paper work. A devout Christian, Anne believed that marriage was for life and she did not want a divorce. She was very sad and called me to pray with her as the signing date got closer. We did. We prayed crying out to God for strength and justice.
On the Saturday before the Wednesday when the divorce paper was to be completed, a police officer knocked on Ann's door. He informed Ann that her husband had a massive heart attack at a restaurant a few hours before and died at the hospital later.
The Wednesday's meeting at the lawyer never took place. The divorce paper was never signed. There was no divorce. Ann was still the wife to her estranged husband, with a legal claim to the family's main asset, the family home in Toronto.
Ann inherited the house; she and the two children are able to continue to live in their family home without having to endure the tyrannical and abusive behaviour of her late husband. Though the younger daughter still misses her dad, Ann and the children can enjoy some stability, peace and harmony at home.
Yes, Jehovah, our God is a God of justice!
R.T.
Toronto
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