Hi Kim,
I sure do understand you need for love and support.  We are all here for you 
and Jesus is standing beside you.

Keep the faith girl,

Virgie and Lady Hoshi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kim Etheridge" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 5:56 AM
Subject: Re: please pray


> Thanks, Virgie, and to everyone else here. If there was ever a time when I 
> need an army of brothers and sisters in Christ to support me, it's now. As 
> I stated earlier, I'm ready to scream, or tear my hair out. I know that's 
> irrational, but the enemy's having a field day. By the way, another 
> miracle occurred last night. I actually slept again. In all this trial, 
> God's revealed His hand to me, if you get my point here. I don't feel as 
> alone as I usually would, since I know He's with me.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "VIRGIE UNDERWOOD" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 9:38 PM
> Subject: Re: please pray
>
>
>> Kim,
>> I understand how you feel and I know it is frustrating and it seems 
>> unbearable sometimes but our Lord Jesus is with you and we are all 
>> praying with you and the Lord has the solution for you and it will be 
>> revealed to you at just the right time.
>>
>> Huggs and blessings,
>>
>> Virgie and Lady Hoshi
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Kim Etheridge" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 7:39 PM
>> Subject: Re: please pray
>>
>>
>>> Amen. However, I'm about to scream, "Oh, come, Lord Jesus. Come soon! 
>>> Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
>>> Help!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, I'll put a lid on it. Boy, that felt good. Just be 
>>> grateful they haven't made voice email yet. Otherwise, you'd need to 
>>> adjust your speaker volume.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "VIRGIE UNDERWOOD" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 6:02 PM
>>> Subject: Re: please pray
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Kim,
>>>> I am praying with you and for your family.  Remember Jesus walks every 
>>>> step with us and He knows our needs even before we ask Him.  Keep 
>>>> praying and keep the faith.
>>>>
>>>> Huggs and blessings,
>>>>
>>>> Virgie and Lady Hoshi
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Kim Etheridge" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 5:47 PM
>>>> Subject: please pray
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I can use some prayer action right now. My sister's getting off drugs, 
>>>>>which takes time. She has to take liquid methadone in order to fight 
>>>>>off the cravings. Recently, she made a major slip, but she's okay, now. 
>>>>>Well, Shirley, the aunt whom I live with these days is constantly 
>>>>>downing her, she's downing me, for being young at heart, and well, when 
>>>>>those two argue, I just don't try to talk. I know I should defend Jenny 
>>>>>when she's right, and Shirley or anyone else, when she's wrong, but I'm 
>>>>>thinking of the Word when it says be slow to speak, and quick to 
>>>>>listen. Shirley's so judgmental, critical, and pure hateful sometimes. 
>>>>>I just feel I've outgrown her. It's like wearing shoes that are twenty 
>>>>>or thirty sizes too small. Ok, I know, you'd have to have a big foot, 
>>>>>if you actually had shoes that were that many sizes too small, but you 
>>>>>get my point here. Do you see what I'm up against here? I've lived with 
>>>>>her for eleven years, and while we get along most of the time, she's 
>>>>>sometimes downright self-righteous, holier than thou, judgmental, 
>>>>>conniving, vendictive, critical, condescending, condemnatory, 
>>>>>accusational, and well, just ruthless sometimes. Please pray, like 
>>>>>you've never prayed before. If anything, it only makes me long for 
>>>>>Jesus to come, more than I was already. At least there'll be no 
>>>>>criticism in Heaven, and Jesus is the only judge, thank God. I just 
>>>>>don't know any more. It's a mess, not to mention a losing battle. 
>>>>>There's just no pleasing her. I seriously believe she doesn't have any 
>>>>>more compassion left in her for my sister. I know that's a cruel thing 
>>>>>to say, but she had Jenny in tears, for goodness sake. I just don't 
>>>>>know how to deal with this anymore. It's like I'm playing both sides 
>>>>>against the middle. It's a litteral tug of war. When I want to go home 
>>>>>with Jenny and spend time with her, Shirley always finds things against 
>>>>>it. Ok, granted, Jenny doesn't have a license, and granted, if she 
>>>>>sped, or if anything was wrong with the car, like a headlight, or a 
>>>>>taillight, possibly, she'd be pulled over, and if they took her into 
>>>>>custody, I'd need to call someone to pick me up. Shirley thinks they'd 
>>>>>either throw me in jail with her, or I'd just be taken to a home, or 
>>>>>somewhere, till she or someone else could pick me up. Now, why would 
>>>>>they want to put an innocent and totally blind passenger in jail? I'm 
>>>>>not the one who's being pulled over. It makes no sense that she'd think 
>>>>>that, but then again, I don't know. She may be right, on this one, or 
>>>>>well, I just don't know how to live with her anymore. She's really 
>>>>>ticking me off!