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Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope By Don & Susie Van Ryn; Newell, Colleen & Whitney Cerak We watched this story on Dateline NBC tonight. It is absolutely amazing! I had actually read about it online yesterday and knew I wanted to get the book. When I realized it was on TV tonight, I was very interested in it. Two young women were involved in the same traffic accident. One survived, while the other died. The problem arose when their identities were mixed up at the scene of the accident and both families just accepted those identities for what they thought they were. For five weeks, one family believed they had lost their daughter, while the other was grateful that theirs had survived. Then the family who thought it was their daughter in that hospital bed began to notice little things that didn't make sense: the shape of her teeth or the color of her eyes were slightly different than their daughter's. This incredible story reveals ho...

I'm going to shock you and actually post some notes from the ladies' conference I attended over two weeks ago ! This session was one of my favorites, I think because Ruth is one of my favorite Bible characters, and God's grace is one of my favorite themes of the Bible; hence the name of my blog. This session was taught by Mrs. Darlene Minge, pastor's wife of Bethel Baptist Church in Spanaway, WA. It was the first of two sessions she taught. She used the entire book of Ruth to show how God's grace worked in Ruth's life, and how we can experience it in our own lives. I loved this lesson, and I hope to have a chance to teach it myself someday. 1. God's grace overcame Ruth's past. She was born in the country of Moab, a pagan nation. Ruth found that God's grace could overcome her early life, and we can trust that God can use anyone or anything to accomplish His will in our lives. 2. God's grace overcame who she married. Ruth was married to...