Rhonda,

Very good. Excellent.

I'm praying for you with many lovings and squeezings, and I pray for
restful nights with much sleep and peace.

I'm praying for Ben with the job situation.

Love and Blessings,
Pat Ferguson

At 10:07 PM 10/26/04, you wrote:
>I was thinking, and I thought what if God had a dictionary.  What if it were
>like Webster's dictionary and it had God's definitions for words like:
>trust, peace, love, belief, forgiveness.  What do you think his definitions
>would say?  How would they differ from your own definitions for the same
>words?
>In my case, I think that peace is: the absence of stress, while I think
>God's definition would be: feeling asense of calmness despite circumstances
>or problems.
>Maybe I should change my definition to His, would get more sleep that way.
>
>Father: I am just like the disciples who were worried during the storm, they
>saw the waves, they felt the winds, and they were like me afraid.  They let
>circumstances take their eyes off of you, Jesus slept while the storm spun
>around him.  I want to trust You, but I find that because I have put my
>trust in people and they have let me down, I am fearful of trusting You.
>The truth is that You are not like people, past experience shows your
>faithfulness to past generations and to me.  Give me your definition of
>peace, your definition of trust!
>for they are so much better than the ones I have been working with.
>I have certainly learned much these past few years, Ihave seen  that love
>does bear all things, and past memories of hurt can becolored by the light
>of forgiveness, what was surely lost, can be restored, relationships and
>peace of mind.  Remind me of these things, when I am awake at midnight, when
>the"what if..." voices call to me.  These words are not from You.
>When I am quiet, I can hear words that are true, I am loved, I am accepted,
>there is a plan, and with these words in my heart, I will say goodnight God,
>
>I love You.
>
>
>Rhonda