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The Steven and Angel Moed Story
“I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in a very culturally Reformed Jewish family.”… I was pretty much insulated from Christians growing up since we lived in a very Jewish area.… Things were about to change when I headed off to Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the fall of 1978.
“In my junior year I met and fell in love with a girl named Angel from Westfield, Indiana. Angel had no problem with me being Jewish since she was taught at her church that the Jews were God’s Chosen People. She just thought being Jewish meant you were one close to God. Three years later we were married.
It was soon after our marriage that our religious differences really became more evident to us and many problems erupted in our marriage.”
Then 24 years later……. “On Sunday morning, while resting on the couch in total confusion with my life, I contemplated the realty of my marriage coming to an end. I decided to turn on the television to forget about my problems. I began to watch this movie, A Vow to Cherish…”
The Steve Sherman Story I grew up believing that God was an impersonal far-away Being. I had this idea that it was God’s job to control the main functions of the universe as keeping the sun, moon, planets, and stars in their proper place. He was in charge of the weather (even including the catastrophes). He created the mountains, rivers, etc.; however, when it came to my life, I believed that my Jewish tradition, which I grew up with, told me that I needed to follow a prescribed set of Laws and rules in order to please Him. God, then, would watch and see how faithful I was to do them. My job was to please Him if I could, and there might be a reward later; if I didn't please Him, then I would be in severe trouble. ...
The Leslie Doctor Story "A Journey from Shame to Acceptance"
After the death of her beloved father at the age of 5, Leslie sensed an aching void in her life . .
The Randy Mitchell Story:
.....We just learned the devastating news about our newborn son's condition. Two cardiologists at the Riley Hospital for Children confirmed our fears. Brandon, diagnosed with a serious heart condition, was facing open heart surgery by the time he would be one-year-old! He had a hole between the two upper chambers of his heart. I was raised in a culturally very Jewish home and I just was not one that prayed about anything. But that evening I dropped to my knees in my darkened bedroom and cried out, "Oh, God, help my son." A month later the most amazing thing happened.....
The Barb 'Samberg' Lucas Story:
" I was working at Riley Children’s Hospital in the New Natal Intensive Care Unit. After graduating from North Central High School in 1974, I had gone through the accelerated nursing program receiving my degree in 1976. It was the night before I was going into the hospital for surgery. I had breast cancer and my chemotherapy treatments had not worked to send this cancer into remission. Thus, I had to go in for a double mastectomy. I was only 19 years old when they found these tumors! That’s when I started questioning whether or not God was really there. Why am I going through it? I had a martyr complex and said, 'I’d rather it be me than my mother or sister.' As far as praying, my plea to God was, 'God, don’t let me die.' .....THEN I RECEIVED A MOST UNUSUAL CALL FROM A COMPLETE STRANGER WHO RIGHT AWAY WANTED TO TALK ABOUT GOD. SHE SAID......... "
The Larry Rosenbaum Story:
My father was a pediatrician in Indianapolis and wanted the best education for all four of his Jewish sons. I guess it was assumed that I would emulate my father, go to Yale, and then to John Hopkins Medical school. There was one small problem. There was something about blood that I detested! The idea of opening up people’s bodies and looking at all of the blood sickened me. I just didn’t want to go to Medical School. I didn’t even like dissecting frogs. In college I was searching for answers to the existential pain I was experiencing and thought that I might become a psychologist or psychiatrist instead.......
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