James Dobson has been
quoted as saying that 93% of people will admit that they were raised in a
dysfunctional family, and the other 7% are liars. In other words every family
has some dysfunction.
When you read Life in
the Valley the biography of Laura Hamilton, written by Susan Harvey you
will agree that the dysfunction in Laura’s home were colossal.
Laura was the 8th of 11 children and grew up on a
650-acre farm in Texas. Her dad farmed
another 2,200 acres. Everyone worked on the farm. When Laura was 6-1/2 years
old she learned to drive the farm truck and she with her 3-1/2 year-old brother
would drive out at 5 in the morning to wake up the 150 milk cows and bring them
in to the barn for milking.
Laura loved the farm but soon was subject to abuse and
struggled to find peace. By the time she was 14, she seriously considered
suicide because of all the abuse she was suffering. As she was entertaining
these thoughts, she heard a voice in her mind telling her ‘don’t commit suicide;
change your attitude and be determined to be a success.’ With that, Laura decided she would be a
medical doctor but later changed her mind and decided to study chemical
engineering. She studied hard and her analytical mind was helpful in
questioning many things in the field.
By this time, Laura had turned her back on her childhood
religion of German Catholic and instead visited most of the protestant churches
in her town and then started studying non -Christian religions.
I encourage you to read her story and see where God led her.
For more information about this book click on the following link- you can read
the first chapter and also listen to an audio recording of Laura telling an
overview of the highlights of her story.
http://www.adventistbookcenter.com/life-in-the-valley.html
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