Phil,

that's a good article!  One Sunday morning as I was going through a hard 
period in my life, it seems that God spoke to me through a former Pastor who 
was suffering as a result of a stroke but was doing the preaching at the 
church where I grew up.  He said something like this:

"I sense, deep in my spirit, that someone is struggling to get everything 
right.  As they teach you in boy Scouts, when you get to the end of the 
rope, tie a knot and hang on!  but I suggest that you let go of the rope and 
trust god."

Back then, I either didn't know how, was unwilling, or was unable to just 
let go and trust God.  Perhaps this is because I needed to be healed in 
certain areas of my life where I had been wounded.  I needed the 
reassurance, which God has given me since then, that He will keep me.

Sharon