“Toogee” half-breed two-bloods garbage devil

“Toogee” half-breed two-bloods garbage devil b@stard

~Stephanie Fast, The Case for Grace “…the rice fields were full of grasshoppers and locusts. I would catch them and poke a rice straw through their head until I had a whole string of them, which I’d tie to my belt. By the end of the day they were pretty much dried and I’d eat them.” ~Stephanie Fast, The Case for Grace

~Stephanie Fast, The Case for Grace The children taunted me because I was biracial, and the farmers would yell at me because I was stealing from them. To everyone I was a dirty toogee. And when you’re a little child and hear people call you that day after day, you begin to believe it about yourself… I believed anyone could do whatever they wanted to me physically because I wasn’t a person. I was worthless. I was dirty. I was unclean. I had no name. I had no identity. I had no family. I had no future and no hope. ~Stephanie Fast, The Case for Grace

She’s Mine…

~Stephanie Fast, The Case for Grace “Although I was almost nine years old and had been in the orphanage for about two years, I still had dirt on my body, especially my elbows and knees-it was ground into my skin. I had lice so bad that my head was actually white. I had worms so bad in my stomach that when they got hungry they’d crawl out of my throat… I weighed a little less than thirty pounds.” ~Stephanie Fast, The Case for Grace

“The more you cry, the more people will give you to cry about.”

“there is no event in my life that I am better without. Why “there is no event in my life that I am better without. Why? Because everything in my life brought me to Jesus.”

WEEK 4

7bTherefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” ~II Corinthians 12

9bTherefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. ~II Corinthians 12

7bTherefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” ~II Corinthians 12

7bTherefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” ~II Corinthians 12

7bTherefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” ~II Corinthians 12

7bTherefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” ~II Corinthians 12

The purpose for Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” was the perfection of God's power…

9bTherefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. ~II Corinthians 12

WEEK 4

nobody escapes the torment… what you can escape is the powerlessness

“Enough is never enough for him to whom enough is too little.” ~Epicurus

good things start to happen through you instead of because of you…

9bTherefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. ~II Corinthians 12

if God’s grace is not sufficient in your suffering, his power cannot manifest in your weakness. …