April,
I will be praying.
Virgie and Hoshi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "April Reisinger" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 4:53 AM
Subject: Good morning everybody


> Hi all,
>
> Well, I am awake and ready for work.  While reading the mail, I noticed a
> few things on which I'd like to comment.
>
> First, I'm thankful not to have been living as a woman in the early days
> because, having lost both of my children through miscarriage, I would not
> have fared well in men's eyes.  And, even today, I grieve for the children 
> I
> could have had but were withheld from me.  It's one of those anticipated
> blessings, I guess.
>
> Brad, Peg from chat, was inquiring about you.  I told her you are still
> posting wisely.  Perhaps she'll join us again and we can have some more
> lively discussions.
>
> Interesting about God being to us what we need most.  Yes, God can be more
> "deceiving" than we if for our own good.  It's not necessarily labeled as
> deceiving in His plan though--more like Sovereignty.  There is no other 
> like
> Him, and His ways are not our ways so He can accomplish what He will 
> however
> He will.  I believe that is one way He uses to draw me even closer when I 
> am
> so proned to wander.  One of my favorite lines in the hymn "Come Thou 
> Fount
> Of Every Blessing" is "Prone to wander,
> Lord, I feel it!"  Don't you ever just feel yourself almost propelled in 
> to
> a wanderlust away from God?  Yet our loving Daddy God brings us back to 
> Him
> time and time again.  Maybe when you think of Chris, Kathy, perhaps you 
> can
> claim this hymn and it's inspiring words and ask God to bring your 
> wandering
> son back to Himself and to his family.
>
> So Brad is the babler, well, I ramble.  One thing more, and I'm out the
> door.  Hahaha.  I have a friend who is changing my life.  It started
> innocently enough with a comment about a tender young love that, like so
> many, was prone to wander.  After many years, God has allowed me to learn
> that my friend is indeed a believer and loves Him with his whole heart.
> This friend began demonstrating God's love through his actions via 
> spiritual
> encouragement, financial support, and consistent friendship.  When I moved
> here to Columbus, he was there to help me.  When I had my apartment fire, 
> he
> even washed my clothes and kept charge of things around the house while I
> was in the hospital and nursing home.  He kept my doggie, the best friend 
> I
> have on earth, for me.  He even cleaned my kitchen once when I was at work
> because I was too tired to keep up with things.  I went to a party to 
> relax,
> and he cleaned my home.  Now listen, he prays for me.  I have always been
> told that men should pray for their wives and I am not even his wife, but
> his prayers are a constant source of encouragement for me.  Haha, I got 
> him
> hooked on the "Left Behind" books lately, and we've been reading and 
> sharing
> our oppinions of the characters and events.  Now what I'm getting at is
> this.  I have enjoyed his friendship for such a long time and didn't see
> things being any different.  I have tried to move away from him in this
> direction because I didn't think it was such a great idea under past
> circumstances.  Today I find myself still drawn to him as a friend but 
> also
> drawn to him as a partner.  It is, I think, because of his patient,
> persistent caring that my feelings are changing.  I covet your prayers,
> because many of you know I haven't always made the best decisions in terms
> of companionship and friends and yes, lovers.  Jesus is the lover of my
> soul, and I am beginning to think my friend is truly the lover of my 
> heart.
> As for the wanderings of the young ones and the noncaring partners, God's
> love can be translated in to action when we try to love as He does even
> during adversity.  I don't know why I went here today, but I did.  My 
> friend
> didn't even run from me the night I came home from the party to talk with 
> my
> boyfriend about where our relationship should go.  He was cleaning my
> kitchen when boyfriend and I walked in.  Talk about a tense moment, I
> thought I had lost both boyfriend and friend.  Well, the difference 
> between
> the two is one is a boyfriend and the other is truly a friend.  The boy 
> had
> a temper tantrum and hasn't trusted me throughout our entire relationship,
> and the Friend still cares and didn't run in the face of conflict.
>
> Thanks for listening.
> April