Phil,

Um. One needs to have hair to have the gold flakes fall out. You might
check to see your bird didn't get out and is flying around dropping things
of his own on you??? hahahahaha. When we lived in Texas, our associate
pastor, one of the godliest men I know of, just a real nice guy but also
so committed to letting God be Lord of his life. This man lost his wife to
cancer after praying and fighting it for four years, and finally he got to
a point of just having done all he knew to do besides prayer, you know all
the things one would see as wisdom, and finally we had a church service
totally dedicated to prayer and  his giving the entire situation to god.
Of course it always was but as I said, all things of wisdom now exhausted
and nothing left to do but watch for god's hand. Then she up and died
anyhow. I had met with him a couple times regarding healing and such, and
he said no matter what we do and pray, god is sovereign. I can't imagine
the hope that was dashed in him as he did all he could, took all his faith
he had and lifted it to god for a miracle, then to not understand why and
continue his work for god without fail. We sure are an impatient bunch,
always wanting to know why and want things fixed according to what we
believe is right.

brad


on 07:10 PM 3/11/2005, Phil Scovell said:
Brad,

How did you know I have gold flakes coming from my hair.  At least I think
that's what they are.

Excellent point you make.  I, for one, have not given up.  Jesus can
always
walk right into a situation, at what everyone believes is the last second,
and life comes.  The Lord also, I learned the hard way, requires Lordship
belief in every situation we face.  I reminded George today, the Lord told
them when the lungs got canceled and they were all so discouraged, that
Jesus said, "I told you.  I am doing this my way."  Well, hells bells.  So
hows come we get our bowels in an uproar just because something,
regardless
of how serious it appears, isn't going our way?  I will never forget what
happened to me a little over a year ago when I ended up in the hospital
with
the flue and what they thought, at the time, was pneumonia.  I sure wish
the
synthesizer would say that word right.  Anyhow, nobody was as shocked as I
was when the Lord said, "Would you like to know why you are in the
hospital?"  I thought, Shoot.  I thought it was because I have the flue
and
pneumonia so when I basically said that in response, the Lord asked me the
same question again.  Sometimes the Lord don't seem to listen when you try
and argue with him.  Anyhow, I won't tell the rest of the story since I
told
it more than once on here and the article of testimony is still on my
website.  to say the least, I slowly began to learn what Lordship and
trusting God was all about.  I'm not God, despite what some may think on
echurch, so I have no idea what God is doing with Jennifer's situation but
I
know He is Lord no matter what and that He is trying His best to reveal
Himself to Vivian and George in a way we will likely never understand.  I
do
know two things.  One I recently learned from a lady with whom I pray each
week and the other from personal experiences of praying intercessory
prayers
about myself.  First, Jesus is always right.  secondly, Jesus is always
Lord.  As far as those golden flakes?  Well, I'll take one down to be
examined.  I thought my hands felt a little oily.  Now I know why.  I will
never wash my hands again.

Phil C Sharp
The Coil Of The snake
A Free Online E-Novel
www.SafePlaceFellowship.com