What a wonderful testimony!
This is what is meant by God working all things for the good.
It sounds like your wife has gone on to be with God and I am sorry for this but God is helping you even with that.
I don't know what a shmita is...I'm kind of hoping it's not a CHILD!
7 would be quite a little bunch.
God bless you.
I do believe you've achieved your God-given goal.
GTG said >> It sounds like your wife has gone on to be with God and I am sorry for this but God is helping you even with that.
Yeah, He took her 4 years ago, but even in that, God revealed His plan from the outset, every step of the way. A few days before she was diagnosed with cancer, author Karen Kingsbury had sent her a series of books as a gift, which Karen had signed, along with a Jeremiah 29:11 postscript. My wife was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, 7 days after her 71st birthday. At the end of the first evening in hospital the front cover of the book she had been reading, curled up revealing Karen's postscript. My wife asked "What is Jer 29:11?" I didn't have a clue, so I looked it up on my tablet. The complete paragraph starts at vs 10:
"You will be in exile for seventy years. But then I will come and do for you all the good things I have promised and bring you home. For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:10, 11
God even revealed the day she was going to die. On her last morning on earth, although she had been pain-free and feeling fine, she knew it was time to say goodbye as she put her arms around me one last time, weeping and shaking, said "This is not fair. God's going to take me away without you." :-( That was her last morning on earth.
I still trust the same Father I trusted so many decades ago, and I fully trust the plan He has for my wife and I.
The shmita or Shemitah is the Jewish 7 year cycle, ending with a sabbath year where the land is left to lie fallow and all work activity is to cease by Jewish law. It is a sabbath year in which all debts are cancelled, looking forward to the Cross, in which ALL debts, were cancelled. After 7 shmitas, 7x7 years comes the 50th year sabbath called the Year of Jubilee, a year of celebration, in which no work is to be done, and all land reverts to it's original owner; the year I celebrate with my wife in our new Home.