Bethany's Story
Bethany shares her story of finding comfort from God during exceptionally hard circumstances.
Bethany shares her story of finding comfort from God during exceptionally hard circumstances.
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[Dad] Hi Bethany!
00:03
Hi, I mean hola, hola!
00:06
[Dad] Hola, yeah.
00:08
My dad had a massive passion for life.
00:10
His motto was to live for today
00:14
and we did everything
together as a family.
00:16
He was just, he was there
and I always felt loved.
00:21
So often in life, there are
things that you can't predict,
00:24
that just happen out of the blue
00:26
and once you walk through that
door, you've had that moment,
00:29
you're never the same person.
00:31
And yeah, that big moment
for me was definitely
00:34
when my dad died, yeah.
00:40
I was 12 years old.
00:43
We hadn't had any history
of heart problems,
00:47
so it was a complete shock.
00:49
We just came home one
evening, Mum and myself,
00:52
and we just found him.
00:55
It got really lonely,
00:57
'cause I didn't really have anybody else
00:59
who was my age and who got me.
01:02
I felt like everything in my
world had just fallen apart.
01:09
Two years after my dad died,
01:10
I went to an event called Sole Survivor,
01:14
where there were thousands
of people my age,
01:16
all gathered together to learn about God.
01:21
There were so many people
there so happy, so engaged,
01:25
so joyful, all just going for it
01:28
like it was the best thing
that they could ever be doing
01:31
and I went and it felt like all my pain,
01:34
and my sadness, and my grief
01:35
was just really weighing me down.
01:37
And I just went up in one of
the main meetings to the front
01:40
and I just kneeled down
and I just said God,
01:44
I need You.
01:46
I feel like I really just
need a hug right now.
01:51
And it's really hard
trying to describe it,
01:54
but it was like somebody
had just knelt down
01:58
in front of me and just
put their arms around me.
02:03
And I just felt God say, I'm here,
02:07
I love you, it's okay.
02:11
I had gone through so much pain
02:13
and I'd gone through so much grief
02:16
and God was the first thing
that actually made a difference.
02:22
I just felt so much of that
pain just get released.
02:27
I know just what it feels
like to feel hopeless,
02:31
to feel broken and to
feel like there's nothing
02:36
that you can do to change your situation.
02:38
I look at my friends
and I look at the world
02:40
and I see so much suffering in it.
02:44
I just thought you know, there's this love
02:48
that I've experienced, I
just wanna give that to them.
02:52
Whether or not you're sure
if you think there is a God
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or you don't know what you believe,
02:58
there is a God who loves you
03:00
and he wants us to have
just the best life.
03:04
He wants us to be in a
relationship with Him
03:06
and He just loves us that much.
03:09
And no matter what you do, He
will always be there for you.
03:14
All you have to do is ask.
03:18
(inspirational string music)
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