Amen Phil.  I believe God puts friends or has friends like that for everyone.  Also I have noticed over the years and it is mentiioned in the word that throw great trials and trivulations the Lord is greatly magnified like through Keith.  All his suffering and torment in the past has made him stronger for the Lord.  And i think it is like that for everyone but not everyone turns to the Lord so they end up suffering more and dying.

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When Satan is knocking on your door.  Simply say, "Jesus could you get that for me?"
Karen Carter '74



> Right on, Brad.  Yep, Keith is a peach of a fellow, too, haw.  He's 49 years
> old and still has long hair.  Builds houses, well, he is a framer, for a
> living.  works a lot with druggies and x cons.  He was a hippy in the
> seventies before getting born again and used to smuggle dope into Colorado
> state prison to his drug buddies.  He did so much cocaine back in those
> days, he never got over it physically speaking.  He is over, or about, six
> feet and the skinniest person I've seen in a long time.  He is one of the
> most solid Christians I know and a good friend.  Nobody loves the Lord more
> than Keith.  Yet he knows suffering and loss but he definitely is a great
> man of God.  We both have made a covenant or sorts with each others that has
> lasted many years.  If one of us strays from the Lord for any reason, the
> other is supposed to come after the other and bring them back no matter what
> it takes.  Additionally, the same goes for death.  If one dies unexpectedly,
> the other has promised to go and pray until they are raised from the dead or
> until God tells them why it happened.  Weird, I know, but friendship made of
> gold.
>
> Phil.