meeting at jaycee park
Lies that keep people
from Christ.
Chuck Marshall
There was a happy little family living in a small town in North Dakota.
The young mother had not been entirely well since the birth of her
second baby. But each evening the neighbors were aware of a warmth
in their hearts when they would see the husband and father being met
at the gate by his wife and two small children.There was lauughter in
the evening too,
And when the weather was nice, Father and children would romp together
on the back lawn while Mother looked on with happy smiles.
Then one day a village gossip started a story, saying that he was being unfaithful
to his wife, a story entirely without foundation.
But it eventually came to the ears of the young wife,and
it was more than she could bear.
Reason left her, and that night when her husband came
home, there was no one to meet him at the gate, no laughter
in the house, no fragrant aroma coming from the kitchen-
only a cold feeling that chilled his heart with fear.
Down in the basement he found the threeof them.
Sick and in despair, the young mother had first taken the
lives of her two children and then her own.
In the days that followed, the truth of what happened
came out - a gossip's tongue,a fabricated tale,
a terrible tragedy. This isn't just the story of the damage
done by an untamed tongue.It's the story of a woman
who believed a lie, a lie that didn't fit with what she knew
about her husband, a lie she didn't have to believe.
What a tragedy, but no greater a tragedy than when
someone believes a lie that keeps them from coming to Christ .
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