FROM BITTER TO BETTER (7 OF 10)
Scripture: Hebrews 12:14-15
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From Bitter To Better (7 of 10)
Series: No Hard Feelings
James Merritt
Hebrews 12:14-15
Introduction
1. On Father’s Day 1999, Ron Shanabarger jumped into the shower, told his wife to wake up their seven-month-old boy, Tyler. When Amy walked into the bedroom, she found him face down in his crib stiff and cold. She screamed! Ron immediately told her to dial 911. When the doctors examined the baby, they said it was SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). They buried Tyler two days later.
2. Hours after the funeral Amy sat in the living room sobbing. She was racked with guilty thinking she should have checked on the baby more often during the night. The night before Father’s Day she had come home exhausted. Ron had already put the baby to bed and she immediately went to sleep.
3. As she sat on the couch weeping, Ron sat down and told her this unbelievable story. While that precious little seven-month-old baby boy was playing with his feet in the crib, Ron wrapped his head in plastic wrap, sat down and ate dinner, brushed his teeth and came back just in time to see his little boy take his last breath. He removed the wrap, turned the baby unto his stomach, switched off the light, and went to bed.
4. He would always be the first one to go in and wake Tyler up, but that Father’s Day morning he asked Amy to do it, because he purposely wanted her to be the one to discover the body. With a look of horror and shock she asked him, ‘‘Why?’’ He said, ‘‘Now we are even.’’ She said, ‘‘Even for what?’’ Ron then told her he had never forgiven her for not cutting an ocean cruise short with her parents to come home and comfort him when his father died. He told her it was at that point he decided to marry her, have a child with her, and then kill the child.
5. So what was it that left behind the wreckage and carnage of a dead seven-month-old boy, a broken marriage, a shattered wife and mother, and a forty-nine year prison sentence for a husband and father? One word ...
Series: No Hard Feelings
James Merritt
Hebrews 12:14-15
Introduction
1. On Father’s Day 1999, Ron Shanabarger jumped into the shower, told his wife to wake up their seven-month-old boy, Tyler. When Amy walked into the bedroom, she found him face down in his crib stiff and cold. She screamed! Ron immediately told her to dial 911. When the doctors examined the baby, they said it was SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). They buried Tyler two days later.
2. Hours after the funeral Amy sat in the living room sobbing. She was racked with guilty thinking she should have checked on the baby more often during the night. The night before Father’s Day she had come home exhausted. Ron had already put the baby to bed and she immediately went to sleep.
3. As she sat on the couch weeping, Ron sat down and told her this unbelievable story. While that precious little seven-month-old baby boy was playing with his feet in the crib, Ron wrapped his head in plastic wrap, sat down and ate dinner, brushed his teeth and came back just in time to see his little boy take his last breath. He removed the wrap, turned the baby unto his stomach, switched off the light, and went to bed.
4. He would always be the first one to go in and wake Tyler up, but that Father’s Day morning he asked Amy to do it, because he purposely wanted her to be the one to discover the body. With a look of horror and shock she asked him, ‘‘Why?’’ He said, ‘‘Now we are even.’’ She said, ‘‘Even for what?’’ Ron then told her he had never forgiven her for not cutting an ocean cruise short with her parents to come home and comfort him when his father died. He told her it was at that point he decided to marry her, have a child with her, and then kill the child.
5. So what was it that left behind the wreckage and carnage of a dead seven-month-old boy, a broken marriage, a shattered wife and mother, and a forty-nine year prison sentence for a husband and father? One word ...
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