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 PrintableVersion My beloved‘All in all’MY BELOVED Here is a lovely little book written in a most appealing yesteryear way. It is kindly and respectful from the preface onward. It is written by Cathie Macrae and the subject matter is God’s gracious dealings with her. She was born, by Lochalsh in Scotland in 1907, into a church-going family. One of her sisters was very keen to know God and his word well and Marie saw to it that Cathie would know God as well. There was much private reading and praying and learning the Bible by heart. This was normal for school work as well. Marie died quite young. Cathie contracted TB when she was a young woman and after some time was sent to a sanatorium. Apart from one month, she spent the next 16 years in one or other of them, never recovering from her illness. As she slowly but surely became more ill, she also ‘struggled’ with the devil, though she was saved. Then there were years when she seemed to struggle as much with her health as with her walk with God. Cathie clearly wanted a close and as good as possible walk with God. This is not easy. Cathie did find herself nearer to God and when all this was going on she had fellowship with fellow patients, staff, visiting pastors and a lively interest in making sure that especially those near death heard the good news of salvation. There was of course a lot of death in her life. She came through and became a wonderful shining testimony to the love of God in the last few years of her life. She knew God as ‘My Beloved’. How wonderful to be allowed to read of someone for whom the Lord was everything, not needing any frills beside him. Marjolein M. Reynolds, © Evangelicals Now - August 2010 |
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