Brad as many others have said I am glad your here you do have such fun
things to say as well as instructional and things that make you think.

Thank you


Lelia Struve email [log in to unmask] msn [log in to unmask]
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From: "Brad D" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: Safe Place Fellowship


> Ned,
>
> There certainly are  benefits I've found as a result of blindness, which I
> question whether I'd have found them if my sight had remained, so yes I
> too
> can praise him for those things. Romans 8:28 works for me...
>
> "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God,
> to those who are the called according to His purpose."
>
> So although he has used blindness, he did not necessarily cause it. In
> fact
> I believe that he did not cause it, but rather we do live in a fallen
> world
> and are subject to the bad things which are in it, yet we prevail and it
> is
> used for good as Romans 8:28 says. As well, we too can either take life's
> lemons and pucker our face with a sour look, or we can make lemonade out
> of
> it and quench our thirst. The choice is ours, and we move on to better
> become God's legitimate children.
>
> Brad