Thanks Maria. I've sent you an email. Your email address sounds familiar to 
me. If you're the particular Maria I think you are, then we're on several 
lists together.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "maria and her zoo" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: please pray


> Hi.
>
> I find we often do when we are at our lowest.
>
> Hang in there and feel free to write me offlist if you ever want to talk.
>
> Regards Maria and critters from Australia
>
> msn, skype  and email: [log in to unmask]
> yahoo: maria_rosa7
> Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the LORD God
> Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.
> -- Amos 5:14
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kim Etheridge" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 7:11 AM
> Subject: Re: please pray
>
>
>> Thanks, I appreciate all the prayers and support. I feel the presence of 
>> Jesus, and His loving arms are around me.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "maria and her zoo" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 7:25 AM
>> Subject: Re: please pray
>>
>>
>>> HI.
>>>
>>> will definately be praying.  I have a brother who struggles with drugs, 
>>> and he's unsaved so I do know what you're going through.
>>>
>>> Maria
>>> Regards Maria and critters from Australia
>>>
>>> msn, skype  and email: [log in to unmask]
>>> yahoo: maria_rosa7
>>> Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the LORD God
>>> Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.
>>> -- Amos 5:14
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Kim Etheridge" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 9:47 AM
>>> 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!
>>>>
>>>
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