One Light Still Shines: My Life Beyond the Shadow of the Amish Schoolhouse Shooting [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition] Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
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My story is not about my past, but about your future, says Marie Roberts Monville. In the startling tragedy of the Amish schoolhouse shooting at Nickel Mines, one story has never been told; Marie Roberts Monville, the wife of the man who created such horror, tells her story for the very first time. It is a story of sorrow and destruction, but also one of majestic deliverance, unending compassion, breathtaking forgiveness, and grace-filled redemption. Within a solitary moment, Marie Monville realized that life, as she knew it, was over. What she never anticipated was a tangible encounter with God reaching into her circumstances, through them rewriting all she believed about herself, her faith, and the God she thought she knew.
One Light Still Shines reveals three love stories: the innocent love of a devoted wife for a husband in pain, the incomprehensible love of God in the aftermath of massacre and destruction, and the redemptive love of Christ, waiting to unfold in the life of every person who reads this book. Marie's journey since that darkest of days has been invaded with light which shines through these pages into the darkest questions we all face - questions about our past, our value, our identity, and own powerlessness in this fallen world. Come face to face with the power behind every answer - a love that begs to be received.
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- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 9 hours and 17 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Audible.com Release Date: October 3, 2013
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00FM761OK
Remember the Amish schoolhouse shooting? I do, and figured it was probably a couple of years ago. I was pretty shocked to realize that it happened in 2006 -- 7 years ago now. One Light Still Shines: My Life Beyond the Shadow of the Amish Schoolhouse Shooting tells the tale, not of what happened during the shooting, but of what happened afterwards to the wife of the shooter.
She (Marie) was a 28-year-old mom of 3 young kids. She'd been raised in the church and was a classic "good girl," so when she learned that while she was at a prayer meeting, her seemingly good guy, Christian husband had shot up a nearby Amish schoolhouse, killing 5 little girls and injuring others, and killing himself as well, she couldn't believe it.
In the days and weeks following the shooting, she and her children were showered with goodwill from all the people you'd expect, and many you might not: the day of the shooting, several Amish men (including some whose children had been killed) came to the house where she were staying and offered their full forgiveness to her, as well as offers to help her in any way they could.
Marie makes some observations about the whole incomprehensible situation: God believed in me enough that he allowed me to be Charlie's wife, even though he knew that these circumstances would arise and threaten to destroy everything I held dear. He allowed me to walk the road that led here anyway. Another time she sensed God telling her, You know only limits. I am limitless.
God richly blessed Marie, giving her an almost unbelievably caring and optimistic family (her mom, who was with her throughout, commented shortly after the shooting, "I can't wait until God does something grand in this situation." Wow -- that is pretty much not what I would be thinking!
Described as a Conservative Christian and family man, Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, was married and a father of three. He was a milk delivery person from Bart township. On October 2, 2006 he entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, took 10 girls hostage, shot them killing five of them before taking his own life as police stormed into the school by breaking through the window. A pregnant woman, three parents with infants, and all fifteen male students were told to leave the school by Roberts.
A news report in the aftermath of the incident claimed he had been planning the attacks for a week and had brought along a 9 mm handgun, a 12 gauge shotgun, a rifle, a bag of black powder, two knives, tools, a stun gun, 600 rounds of ammunition, KY sexual lubricant, wire and plastic ties. The wire and plastic items presumably to be used for securing the victims, and KY jelly apparently to sexually assault the girls. Perhaps anticipating a long siege, he also brought a change of clothing.
According to reports, Roberts phoned his wife from within the school house before he murdered the children. Ironically, his wife was said to be leading a prayer group at the time that was organized to pray for school children in their community.
When Marie Roberts Monville learned that her husband was the Nickel Mines Amish schoolhouse shooter, she was shattered and thought her life was over. What she never anticipated was a life-changing encounter with God reaching deep into her circumstances and rewriting all she believed about herself and her faith.
Recounting her ordeal for the first time, Marie shares a heartbreaking story of a woman whose husband murdered innocent children and who through her pain and suffering embraced the love and mercy of God.
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