There is a story Jimmy Evans relates which fits that situation Helen.
They asked a guy who survived a prisoner of war camp situation, might have
been a Jew from a concentration camp, I don't remember.
Probably a prisoner of war camp though.
Anyway, they asked him why he made it while others did not?
He answered because I always absolutely believed that I would get out.
Next they asked him, who didn't make it?
He answered, the optimists.
They were taken aback and asked, come again?
He said the optimists died in the prisoner of war camps.
They said, could you explain that?
Why did the optimists die?
He said, because, they believed that they would get out at thanks giving and
they didn't.
Then they thought they would get out by Christmas and they didn't.
Then by Easter and they didn't and before long they died of broken hearts.
I believe it's the same sort of thing that screws up some Christians who
listen to a message about Jesus' coming.
An they think, he's coming next week, or when the moon is full or when this
happens or that happens.
Our job as Christians is just to know that he is coming and that he is going
to do it in god's time, not some time we set up in our minds.
We just have to have faith and believe and live right until.

Matt