Chris,

I'm praying for you that God will give you comfort and peace about your Dad
leaving for Texas.

Jesus loves you, and so do we.

Love and Blessings,
Pat Ferguson


At 10:45 PM 3/7/04, you wrote:
>Guys, this is so painful.  i'm gonna try to make my way through this mail,
>without tears, but don't count on it...
>
>     I need to ask for prayer.  My dad was just called on a jobsite where he
>is going to have to be flighing out early tomorrow morning to Texas.  i hate
>it when he does this!  it seems like he's quite often (not literally, but
>more seemingly) quite often, in Texas, and a corse we have family there,
>that I've told yall billions of times about.  i can't no matter what I try
>accept the fact that all these times he's gone, and I almost never if ever!
>get to go.  OK, OK, OK? OK? OK!  I'll admit it!  I'm jealous!  I shouldn't
>be, and I know I'm in sin for being so, but i almost feel I can't help it.
>You can't imagine how badly I want to be him as this hour.  Don't say you
>really do, and can relate.  Believe me!  No you can't!  just take me for my
>word!  Anyway, i'm probably not gonna get to sleep now.  I don't know why I
>had to be told this tonight, and couldn't a just waited until the morhning
>once he'd already left then told me.  I hope I don't put up a big scene when
>he does leave, but knowing me, I might.  I'm sort a filled with mixed
>emotions.  A ton of anger/fury, embarrassment, anguish, agany, confusion,
>longing, jealousy, you name it, and even then of more, the whole 9 yards.
>just pray for God to help me endure this, as without his strength, at this
>point, I can't, and won't.
>
>
>BTW:  I need to know where in the Bible the most discriptive most detailed
>discription of the Crucifixion is located.  (Again, I say, in, the, Bible?
>quote? hint, hint?)
>
>Chris.