Hey, Matt

There is a story in Acts (Acts 16 verses 16 through 24) where a slave girl
would follow Paul around shouting that he had the Spirit of GOD and Paul
turned around, cast out the spirit of divination that was in her and
basically told her to shut up!  So you might try that.  Smile.  The down
side is that the folks who owned the servant girl knew they'd lose a lot of
money now that she couldn't tell fortunes for a profit and had Paul thrown
in jail and beaten, but other than that...

The Other Paul
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From: "Matt" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: Bike lost no one hurt


> Heh Paul, well everyone immediately started saying things like, it
happened
> for a reason, or god didn't want us to have the bike for some reason.
> That from people who know we recently started following a christian
> lifestyle more so than we had been.
> In truth though, you just don't want to hear anything like that from
anyone
> this soon after such a loss.
> You want to sit back and try and take it all in and start to deal with it.
> I need to read the fruits of the spirit again to start trying to deal
better
> with people in times like this.
> Especially my mom who seems to get to me more than anyone, beside my wife.
> I always want to quote first peater 3, or a portion of it which says a
quiet
> and gental spirit is precious in the eyes of the lord, but it's just my
nice
> way of saying please shut up!  An, I know that's not the right approach.
>
> Matt