Rhonda,

My heart goes out to Christian and to her family who are watching all this 
suffering.  I'm praying for all of them.

Julie
visit me at
www.heart-and-music.com
Keep smiling!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "VIRGIE UNDERWOOD" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: Toni's email


> Rhonda,
> I am praying for strength, courage, and abundance of faith.
> Virgie and Hoshi
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rhonda Pertain" <[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 gait pain,
> >
> > It has been a day!
> >
> > The side effects from all the radiation and chemo are reaching a peak.
> > Constant nausea, vomiting 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
>