Feb. 16, 2008 - Quiver-full blog roll and Susanna Wesley
Some may have noticed that I have joined a blog-roll it's on the lower right hand side of my page. I'm mainly mentioning this in case you didn't see the new blog-roll. It's a compilation of blogs from other Quiver-full families. I love to hear testimonies of how God has worked in the lives of Christians to bring about a new life.
Speaking on the topic Susanna Wesley is a great example to me of a woman who went through the fire and trials of life yet left such an impact on the Christian world by her trust in God through those difficult times and continuing to have children despite health and financial problems and even the death of many of her children. I just bought and read this book on Susanna Wesley:
I was greatly encouraged by what this poor woman suffered. She was certainly a dedicated mother and wife despite the hardships and oppression that she underwent. She had 19 children losing 9 of them in infancy. Her first 3 pregnancies were hard on her so hard that she wasn't able to function and had to have a servant to help her at the time. She had rheumatism the book said yet she went on to have so many other children.
Her husband left her once because she didn't say "Amen" after a prayer for the king that her husband had said, which was at home with her by the way not in front of anyone. She likely never said, "amen' after he prayed for the king yet he chose to make a big point out of it (trying to buy favor of the king to advance his position) at one point in which he got so irate with her that he left her with several children (I think 6 at the time) with no care for 5 months. He only returned because their home burned down and he heard about it. He had plans to leave her and the children desperate and destitute by leaving on a ship to be a naval pastor possibly for the rest of his life. He must have been impossible to live with yet she loved him and stuck by his side and had several more children by him. The fire served to be a blessing in the long run because it brought her husband home and they were reunited although they were a bit distant from what the book says. If she were to have not had more children we never would have had John Wesley nor Charles Wesley.
Comments
Feb. 19, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by melissal89
Thanks for the book recommendation. It sounds very interesting, I'll have to check our library to see if they have it.
Blessings, Melissa
