Thanks Ned,
I know and I really do appreciate it!
thanks,
Kathy


At 08:21 PM 7/12/2005, you wrote:
>Kathy,
>We don't always understand how God works in our lives but we do know, as is
>recorded in His word,
>
>Romans 8:28FF
>     28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who
>love him, who have been called  ]  according to his purpose. 29
>For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness
>of his
>Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
>] 30
>And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also
>justified; those
>he justified, he also glorified.
>     31What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who
>can be
>against us? 32
>He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all-how will he not
>also,
>along with him, graciously give us all things?
>33
>Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who
>justifies.
>34
>Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died-more than that, who was
>raised to
>life-is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
>35
>Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or
>persecution
>or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
>36As it is written:
>    "For your sake we face death all day long;
>       we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."[
>l
>] 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who
>loved us.
>38
>For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,
>[ neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39
>neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to
>separate
>us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
>
>Kathy, God is working in your lives to bring about His will and your good.
>He means you no harm nor heart ache but because His wys are not our ways,
>you may experience some emotional hurt or disappointment.  However, it is
>for your good that He does it and the morning will come wheree there will be
>rejoicing.  We all truly feel your pain and, in many ways and with many of
>us, we have experienced the same or similar things.  We stand with you and
>claim the Word of God and His promises.  He makes no mistakes!
>
> From a poem of that name, here are a few lines.  It has meant a lot to me
>many times.
>
>And by and by the mist will lift
>And plain all He'll make,
>Through all the way tho' dark to me,
>He made not one mistake.
>
>Know that we love you and Greg and family and we hold you up constantly
>before our loving Father.
>
>Ned