Hey Phil and Sandy I am so glad for you guys and for the children too.


Lelia email [log in to unmask] msn [log in to unmask]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 7:51 PM
Subject: Gretchen update


> Our daughter was given permission to stay enrolled with the church
ministry
> drug rehab program instead of being sent to prison for now.  The county
> where she was arrested and sentenced, however, is requiring that she come
in
> once or twice a week, as they dictate, and take a urine test.  They
wouldn't
> have required this but the church ministry takes no government funding or
> state funding plus they do no U A testing since they assign someone to
each
> person that is new and they are never allowed to be alone.  So we praise
the
> Lord for the decision to allow her to stay.  The stress that built up over
> this one thing the last week or so has been impossible to describe.  It
> finally came to me yesterday as I thought, or someone impressed their
> thoughts upon my thoughts, what are you going to do if she goes to prison?
> Finally I heard my own spirit replying softly and saying, Jesus will still
> be Lord if she goes to prison.  Then came the thought, And what about her
> children if she goes to prison?  My spirit immediately said, Jesus will
> still be Lord.  I know this sort of response sounds trite or even
> superficial but this response is totally new to me as someone who has
walked
> with the Lord for 47 years.  I was always taught to live by rule and
> regulation and that performance superceded experience and circumstances.
It
> has only been in the last two years, actually more like the passed 18
> months, that my entire Christian life and relationship with the Lord has
> begun to shift into an area of spirituality I never knew existed.  Thus,
> Lordship is new to me.  I would bet, if I was a betting Baptist, that I
have
> not only heard more sermons and Bible lessons on Lordship than anybody on
> this list, but I bet I have preached on the topic of Lordship more than
> anybody on this list, too.  I know very little about it now but I knew
> nothing about it then.  I thought, I hear someone saying, that happened
when
> you were born again, that is, we make Jesus the Lord of our life.  Yep,
> that's right.  I am learning now, however, just how much of my life the
Lord
> does not yet have.  Thanks for all your prayers.
>
> Phil.
>