Continue with You Can Take Comfort- So Much Need for Comfort!

Laimonis, a young man from Latvia, tell of the need for comfort and of the dark memories that caused him  to be grim at the age of 29, he had a car accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down.  He felt completely hopeless and turned to alcohol.   Five years later he was a wreck-a paralyzed alcoholic with no future.  From where could he draw comfort? 

Or think of Angie.  Her husband underwent three brain surgeries that had at first left him partially paralyzed. Then, five years after the last surgery, he was in a very serious accident, one that could have killed him. As his wife entered the emergency room and saw her husband  lying there in a coma after having sustained a very serious head injury, she knew that a tragedy was impending.  The road ahead for her and her family  was going to be rough.  How could she find support and encouragement? 

For Pat, a winter day some years ago seemed to start off  normally.  The next three days, however, have been erased from her memory. Her husband later told her that after having severe chest pains, she went into full cardiac arrest.  Her heart started beating very rapidly and erratically, and then it stopped beating altogether. Her breathing stopped.  "I was actually clinically dead," says Pat.  But she somehow survived.  Of her long stay  in the hospital, she says:  "I was frightened  by many of the tests, especially when they tried to make my heart fibrillate and stop, as it had done originally."  What could provide her with the needed solace and relief at this critical time? 

Joe and Rebecca lost their 19-year old son in an automobile accident.  "We have never had to deal with anything so devastating,"  they  say.  "Although we, in the past, have mourned with others over their losses, we did not truly feel the great pain of heart that we do now."  What could possibly soothe such a "great pain of heart" -the extreme grief over losing someone whom you dearly love?  

Next time: Conclusion of So Much Need for Comfort

From the Watchtower magazine, 2000