Me too!
Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: The Electronic Church [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of VIRGIE UNDERWOOD
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 12:23 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Toni's email
Rhonda,
I am praying for strength, courage, and abundance of faith.
Virgie and Hoshi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rhonda Partain" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:48 PM
Subject: Toni's email
> Here is a message I got about Christian today! How awfully hard it must be
> watching someone you love in such grait pain,
>
> It has been a day!
>
> The side effects from all the radiation and chemo are reaching a peak.
> Constant nausea, vomitting and the sores that are covering the inside of
> her
> mouth
> down into her stomach. They have increased her morphine and the
> anti-nausea
> meds. Her blood pressure is back up,probably because the pain is
> intensifying.
> She threw up blood a while ago. Now they have ordered platelets. I am told
> that days like this will continue.
>
> Helplessness is the word that probably sums up what I'm feeling. This is
> one
> of the days that I have to draw on what's already been "deposited in the
> bank",
> so to speak.
>
> As I sit, I remember a prayer that Kathryn Kuhlman prayed,
>
> "Not some of Thee, and some me,
>
> But all of Thee and none of me."
>
> Lord, that I may decrease...all of me, my worries, concerns, and feelings
> of
> helplessness.
>
> So that You may increase...all that You are.
>
> "You are the God who performs miracles: You display Your power among the
> peoples." Psalm 77:14 (LT)
>
> Strangely enough as I sat to write this, my eyes just fell on a book that
> was given to me. Right in the middle of the page in huge, bold-black, 1"
> letters,
> reads:
>
> WHEN YOU ARE GRIPPED BY FEAR
>
> As you pick the book up, in 1/4" gray letters, just above the bold-black
> ones, reads:
>
> I am with you
>
> I understand marketing. But the way the book design looks is ironic. When
> we
> as christians face trials and tribulations or in my words are having a
> day,
> doesn't our life sometimes look that way? Our "issue" way big and the
> great
> "I AM" fades to small gray.
>
> So today/tonight I sit and pray....
>
> "Not some of Thee, and some of me;
>
> But all of Thee, and none of me!"
>
> Arise great I AM. Arise in Christian. Arise in me.
>
> Your prayers are so appreciated!
> Rhonda
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