A New Hope

A Uruguayan woman named Marti* was desperate. She had married at a very young age. Unfortunately, her husband was an alcoholic. Every day he came home drunk and made life impossible for her and their three children. He spent every penny he earned, and the family didn’t even have a crust of bread to eat or a glass of milk to drink. 

Marti’s life became unbearable, and she felt she couldn’t go on living. All she could think of was how to end the terrible suffering for herself and the children. Then, one day, she came up with a plan. She decided to throw her children and herself under the train that ran nightly on the tracks near her home.

Finally, she couldn’t take it any longer and summoned the courage to carry out her plan. She prepared herself and her children and got ready to meet the coming train. Then she turned on her radio to disguise what she was doing.

By the grace of God, the 10 p.m. Women of Hope program had just started, and the words of hope Marti heard caught her attention. God touched her heart, and he changed her mind about destroying their lives.

Instead of choosing suicide that evening, she continued to listen to the program. Sometime later, Marti received Christ as her Saviour, and a new hope was born in her. She raised her children, who married and had their own children. God enabled her to watch the three of them grow up.

 A few months ago, Marti contacted the TWR Women of Hope office and said, “If it weren’t for Women of Hope, I wouldn’t have met my grandchildren.”

Marti is now a woman of faith in God who loves her precious family – and she continues to listen to and enjoy the Women of Hope program.

* Marti is a pseudonym to protect her privacy.