Judson hears Twitty’s story of faith journey

After several days of no food or sleep in Aruba in June 2005, Beth Holloway Twitty — mother of missing Mountain Brook-teen Natalee Holloway — hailed a cab and said, “Just take me to a church.”
   
The driver stopped about a mile from a church on a hill at the first of several white crosses leading up to the church.
   
Twitty got out and dropped to her knees in the gravel before the cross, begging for her daughter’s life or an answer for the pain. She did this at each cross and finally — at the sixth — got her answer, she said.
   
“It was a complete and overwhelming peace. I knew wherever Natalee was, God had her wrapped in His arms.”
   
At Judson College’s first chapel service of the year Aug. 30, Twitty shared the story of how her faith has brought her comfort during the painful experience of her daughter’s disappearance during a senior trip to the island last year.
   
It was a year ago that Natalee should have been starting school like the Judson students, Twitty said, so it was special for her to get to speak.  
   
“And it’s meaningful for the young women at Judson to hear Beth Holloway Twitty’s story of the peace that’s found in God in the midst of pain,” said Judson President David Potts. (TAB)