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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
Wed Feb 11, 2015, 08:01 PM Feb 2015

Kayla Mueller: 'I Have Surrendered Myself To Our Creator'

Antonia Blumberg

Kayla Mueller, an American aid worker who was kidnapped by the Islamic State in 2013, was recently confirmed to have died while being held hostage by the militant group. A letter Mueller sent to her family in Arizona, which they released on Tuesday, revealed that during the year and a half of her captivity Mueller frequently turned to God and relied on her faith to give her strength.

"I remember mom always telling me that all in all in the end the only one you really have is God," Mueller wrote.

I have come to a place in experience where, in every sense of the word, I have surrendered myself to our creator b/c literally there was no else.... + by God + by your prayers I have felt tenderly cradled in freefall. I have been shown in darkness, light + have learned that even in prison, one can be free. I am grateful. I have come to see that there is good in every situation, sometimes we just have to look for it. I pray each each day that if nothing else, you have felt a certain closeness + surrender to God as well + have formed a bond of love + support amongst one another.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/10/kayla-mueller-faith_n_6656312.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

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Kayla Mueller: 'I Have Surrendered Myself To Our Creator' (Original Post) hrmjustin Feb 2015 OP
Another martyr. okasha Feb 2015 #1
And conservatives are dancing on her grave. hrmjustin Feb 2015 #2
I think the only way people with such poison inside them okasha Feb 2015 #3
They just love to hate. hrmjustin Feb 2015 #4

okasha

(11,573 posts)
3. I think the only way people with such poison inside them
Wed Feb 11, 2015, 09:45 PM
Feb 2015

can walk around in daylight is to lie to themselves.

And lie, and lie, and lie.

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