Dee brestin biography

About the Author Dee Brestin is the.
I grew up in a loving family in Wisconsin.
Dee Brestin (http://www.deebrestin.com) is excited about seeing lives changed.

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Dee Brestin

DON’T SEND A SYMPATHY CARD

There’s an invisible knife sticking out of my heart. My fifty-nine-year old husband lost his valiant battle with colon cancer. I wait for him to call, to hear his hearty laugh — but silence looms. I long to talk to him about our five children – but he is gone. My body aches to be held by him in the night, to have his deep voice pray over me, or to hear him recite “Winkin, Blinkin, and Nod,” the nursery rhyme he thought might lull me to sleep — but I am alone under the covers. My grief counselor tells me to accept the reality of my husband’s death — to stop tormenting myself. I must accept that I will go to him, but he will not come to me.

I don’t particularly like being around Christians who haven’t suffered deeply. They can be like Job’s friends, offering pat answers, misapplying God’s truths, bumping up against the knife they do not see. They smile and quote Romans 8:28 to me. I cringe. They send a card with a platitude pointing out the silver lining to my pain. I close it quickly. I know they mean well.

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Meet Dee

WELCOME!

I am thankful for you! Whether you are a reader of my books, my blog, or I have met you at a conference, you are a blessing to me! This article is from Today’s Christian Living, July, 2017

You Are Loved PDF

Clues Leading To My Conversion

In girl Meets GOD Lauren Winner looks back on how God wooed her and says:

Surely any idiot should have been able to see from the second chapter that it was Miss Scarlett in the conservatory with the rope.

First Clues

Before kindergarten I wondered, “Who made my hand?”
I melted every time I heard “O Holy Night”.
I wondered how my professor at Northwestern University could rip apart the Bible and not be afraid of God.
When my “fanatical” sister Sally arrived to tell me about Jesus I wanted her visit to end, but a freak October blizzard hit Indianapolis and she stayed and preached three more days.

Sisters: l to r, Bonnie, Dee and Sally
How amazing that He chose me before the foundation of the world. It is just that it took
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