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> Sandy,
> It was a very difficult time for me. The courts made me feel like a
> worthless worm. They seemed to think that because I was blind that I
> couldn't do anything. It didn't matter to them that I owned and ran my own
> business or that I had, at that time, lived alone for two years and took
> care of my cooking, cleaning, wash and was well, unburned, well dressed,
> clean, and was able to function well in society. I had to sit still and
> listen to my wife tell the court that I could only feed my son a bottle,
> that I never helped her with him and had never changed a diaper. I took
> care of him most of the time during the five years of his life before she
> chose not to be married any more. Anyway, I tell you this to tell you that
> our Lord is a wonderful, every-present and powerful loving Lord. He kept me
> strong through it all and has made me a much better person as a result of it
> all. I can honestly say, though I wish it had never happened and that I had
> not had to go through that, that I can now thank Him for all the experiences
> of that situation because it allowed me to be a witness for Him in the
> presence of difficulties, distresses and seeming failures. God made me
> strong and granted me wisdom in the midst of heart ache and disappointment.
> Sandy, I am like Phil and everyone else: I am easy to get along with as
> long as I get my way. (smile)
> Blind or sighted, poor or rich, old or young, married or unmarried may God
> always be praised and honored by our lives.
>
> Ned