No Unimportant People in His Eyes
Historical AccountTestimony★★★★Because Shellie’s mother refuses to grant permission for her to marry-unemancipated minors cannot marry without a parent’s consent-they plan to wed as soon as Shellie turns 18 in January.
For Mr. Hammond, Jeremiah’s story is about not giving up on people. “God has shown me that there are no unimportant people in His eyes.”
Jeremiah still doesn’t know why Ashbrook committed suicide after their confrontation. But he does know this: that God is using the incident to glorify Himself. “I think He’s trying to work through me with all this media [coverage] to tell everybody that there is a God and that He really does care about us,” says Jeremiah, whose story has aired on ABC’s 20/20. “Nobody would expect to hear that from somebody like me.”
Also attributed to: Jeremiah Neitz
The point
This news excerpt pairs a note about Shellie, a minor waiting to marry, with Jeremiah's account of how God is using a suicide tragedy and media coverage to show that no one is unimportant and that He truly cares.