Chris,

I'm praying for both of your situations, that God will give you peace,
comfort, and much love.

Prayer does work, and God does listen. Have faith, my friend.

God Bless you. It's getting late, and I'm going to bed.

Lovingly,
Pat Ferguson

At 04:18 AM 12/16/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Folks, I really could use some prayer.  I really don't want to go into a
>whole lot of detail, because this is just so painful for me to talk about,
>but there are two very specific things write now on my mind;
>
>Firstly, be praying that God would bring me peace, joy, comfort, whatever
>you feel him leading you to say, over the situation with me being so
>distance as far as a relationship with my friend Hope.
>
>
>Secondly:  As most of you all know:  you know what happened to me Christmas
>of 2001.  (about me being promised to see and meet jessica for the first
>time, which ended up not working.)  Truth is:  I still to this day, almost 4
>years later, have nightmares, and I don't just mean little nightmares of
>waking up to find that I wouldn't see her when promised...  O? no no!  I
>mean re'e'e'e'e'e'el bad nightmares.  We're talking so bad that it is
>practicly traumatizing.  i can't talk to my parents nor to her parents, who
>a corse are my cousin and cousin inlaw...  None of them seem to get it...
>Quite frankly, I don't know either what draws me so close to her, especially
>when she's only 9 and I've never yet metter...  And no...  it isn't that,
>thank you very much?  And for anyone on this list who accuses me publicly of
>it being my OCD, may Vickie bannem at once!  (Half serious, half joking.)
>has nothing to do with that...
>
>Anyway, your prayers on both of these issues, are greatly appreciated.  I
>really dunno how much good they'll do, at this point, but I'd say it doesn't
>hurt to have faith and try...
>
>
>Chris.