Media personalities, particularly television journalists, are not typically known for sharing their religious faith, or indeed, in many cases, even having one.
So that's why, her history of bias aside, it was nice to see CBS reporter Hannah Storm blogging about trusting in God's will in a blog post marking her departure from the "Early Show":
Hi everybody! Thanks so much for all your well wishes and supportive comments. I sure will miss being with you every morning. I have thought often over the last week about how God's plan is different from my own... and how important it is to embrace that.
At that point Storm then quoted from Cardinal John Henry Newman:
God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission -- I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in His -- if, indeed, I fail, He can raise another, as He could make the stones children of Abraham. Yet I have a part in this great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep his commandments and serve Him in my calling.
Therefore I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve him. My sickness, or perplexity, or my sorrow be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain; He may prolong my life, He may shorten it; He knows what He is about; He may take away my friends, He may throw me among strangers, He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide the future from me-still He knows what He is about.”
Storm, raised in an Irish Catholic family, has hinted before about her personal faith. In a 2006 interview, she said that she always says a prayer before going on-air:
I always say a prayer before I go on air—just something very simple, but it helps me.
—Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters
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Prayer before work
December 4, 2007 - 14:05 ET by KC MulvilleWhat can you say? Good for her. I do the same.
Hannah Storm WRONG again
December 4, 2007 - 14:35 ET by Lame CherryI caution people to not be sucked in by this meandering blog tugging at the heart, because there is as much devil in it as anything.
I will point out the FACT that Hannah Storm is lying about God in the last paragraph. God NEVER makes people's spirit's sink.........if a person's spirit sinks it is because they moved away from God and are off in rebellion. God NEVER makes anyone feel desolate as He is the Creator of all in Peace (the Hebrew word Peace is all encompassing in all fulfilled, nothing missing, nothing broken. Jesus is the Perfect of Prince of that Peace.) God NEVER takes away friends and He certainly NEVER throws people around like trash dumping them among strangers. HE IS THEE GOD Who always prepares the playing field before He sends someone anywhere. He makes provision for His purpose.
So Hannah Storm in her "Catholic dogma" is hiding a lie telling the world that God is the bringer of bad things.........that is a complete lie and the father of lies as Jesus teaches is the devil.
It is always easier to deceive people with 90 percent Truth and 10 percent lies..........because if you think about it like a journey home tonight from work. A 10 degree turn of your steering wheel might not seem like much, but by the time you drive 30 miles home you are not at home..........you are 5 miles from home. In Spiritual terms that is 5 miles in hell and the farther you go the farther you end up not where you are supposed to be.
Hannah Storm is promoting the Muslim god.....for that creature too is a god of doom who brings bad things. That god is not thee God of the Bible Who cares for all of us completely in helping us get out of the messes we make from our head strong selfishness.
Furthermore, Hannah Storm lying about being an 'angel of peace' is bogus. Humans as Paul reveals are created a little lower than angels who are ministering agents of God's will for His purpose in helping people, but people have the destiny to being the children of God in Spirit. Angels will never become the children of God.
None of this is nitpicking as there is far too much of this deception going on and it is not coming from God. As Hannah Storm lacks Wisdom in knowing God's purpose, then have her ask Him as He reveals all to those who inquire. I inquire daily in this struggle of life and He always informs me His purpose. I know Whose am I and He reveals all to help me prepare.
In discernment in judging Hannah Storm (not condemnation as God alone has that office), she leaves a high paying job having gotten the entire gravy of life...........she was part of a group of people who created Bill Clinton in promoting him, she helped create Abu Gharib which got thousands of people dead and wounded, she instigated reports which are logged here that hurt President Bush and America.........after being part of all of that damage..........NEVER ONCE being on air saying this was horrid, but taking the big paycheck..........she now after profits comes forward with her little prayer and "calling".............
Oh and she sows 10 percent deception if people follow it IT will take them into the devil's harm to destroy them.
I ask people to consider that instead of the glowing reports just because Hannah Storm is claiming something. I do not call her the devil, but if you bother to study the devil tempting Christ, the devil NEVER once lied to Jesus..........the devil quoted Scripture in twisting it. "If you are the Son of God"...........
Hannah Storm requires a great deal of Biblical study aided by the Holy Spirit.
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Hate to rain on your
December 4, 2007 - 15:03 ET by balboaHate to rain on your rambling parade, but I believe she was quoting Cardinal Newman, was she not?
Yes, she's quoting Cardinal
December 4, 2007 - 15:29 ET by Ken ShepherdYes, she's quoting Cardinal Newman. You can debate theology 'til the cows come home, and you can think she's not correct on biblical doctrines, but it's still nice to see a journalist sharing a bit of her faith on her blog and not being so politically correct as to never mention it, if indeed it is so central to her life.
I agree, Ken. It is nice to
December 4, 2007 - 16:04 ET by motherbeltI agree, Ken. It is nice to see someone not embarrassed to share her faith.
I agree with the first part of your post too. That's why I generally stay out of religious arguments....no minds are ever changed.
God NEVER takes away friends
December 4, 2007 - 15:20 ET by dvdaughtryGod NEVER takes away friends and He certainly NEVER throws people around like trash dumping them among strangers
Job 1:21
(in context)
And before you go saying that was Satan and not God, God gave permission for all of that to happen to Job. It's just semantics to argue who did it.
Then if you still have trouble thinking God might do some less-than-easy things:
Amos 3:6
Well, for once, the rich white man is in control. --Montgomery Burns
"Hannah has left the
December 4, 2007 - 15:48 ET by Rackie"Hannah has left the building."
Why is She Leaving CBS?
December 4, 2007 - 16:16 ET by Del DolemonteI must have missed that part-why is she leaving?
Good for Hannah
December 4, 2007 - 18:31 ET by celatorGood for her. A little light shines through the darkness of modern culture. Let us rejoice.