Quote: Stonewall Jackson in the midst of suffering

The following is an excerpt written in a letter by Stonewall Jackson to his sister following the Sunday when his wife, Ellen, had given birth to their stillborn infant son and died herself of hemorraging.

My dearest Ellie breathed her last on Sunday evening, the same day on which the child was born dead.  Oh! the consolations of religion!  I can willingly submit to anything if God strengthens me.  Oh! my Sister would that you could have Him for your God!  Though all nature to me is eclipsed, yet I have joy in knowing that God withholds no good things from them that love and keep his commandments.

I have never experienced anything like what Stonewall Jackson faced on that given Sunday, but I have experienced the strength and love of God and can testify “Amen” to what has been said.  If there are any readers who do no know God, then Oh, that you could have Him for your God!