Your welcome that is so beautiful
I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there
isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is.
ABC's Of Salvation
Admit you are a sinner. Rom 3:23
Believe in Christ. Acts 16:31
Confess your faith. Rom 10:9-10
If you believe there is not God, than just die. For without a God you can do
this.
Karen Carter '74
www.the-team.biz/MV2114839
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rhonda Partain" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: 25th anniversary coming up soon
> Thanks Karen!!
> Rhonda
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karen Carter" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 6:05 PM
> Subject: Re: 25th anniversary coming up soon
>
>
>> Praise the Lord Rhonda that is wonderful..
>> I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out
>> there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out
>> there is.
>>
>> ABC's Of Salvation
>> Admit you are a sinner. Rom 3:23
>> Believe in Christ. Acts 16:31
>> Confess your faith. Rom 10:9-10
>>
>> If you believe there is not God, than just die. For without a God you can
>> do this.
>>
>> Karen Carter '74
>> www.the-team.biz/MV2114839
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Rhonda Partain" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 10:13 PM
>> Subject: 25th anniversary coming up soon
>>
>>
>>> Ben and I will cellebrate 25 years together on January 26th 2010. He
>>> asked me if I would like to renew our vows. Here is a message I sent to
>>> our pastor when he replied to me that he would be honored to help us do
>>> just that.
>>> I am sure some of you may remember the rough season Ben and I had about
>>> 8 or so years ago.
>>>
>>> You can't possibly know how wonderful it is to have Ben want to renew
>>> our vows, to have him going to church with me, He said he would
>>> never.....ever go
>>> to a church again!
>>> I remember many nights crying myself to sleep asking God how in the
>>> world I could possibly reach Ben, he seemed to be growing more and more
>>> distant each
>>> day. He had computer friends and didn't seem to need me. I remember
>>> telling God that He showed David how to fight the giant, he showed him
>>> which stones
>>> to use. What was I to use? I felt God saying I should just love
>>> Ben.....not the answer I wanted. not an easy thing to do......what I
>>> wanted was permission
>>> to leave my marriage. to just end it all, this was just too hard and
>>> certainly not what I had signed up for. But memories of my wedding vows
>>> came to mind,
>>> for better or worse....this was worst all right.....words of being
>>> faithful, and true. I knew I had made a promise not just to Ben but to
>>> God as well.
>>> If it had been a promise to Ben only I think I might have more easily
>>> broken it, but then there was God right there in the middle of all this
>>> anger,
>>> hurt, and disappointment! I am sooo glad God wouldn't give me what I
>>> wanted, but insisted I stay!
>>> I am truly blessed and as our 25th year together comes to an end I
>>> realize more and more how wonderful the love of God truly is! just as
>>> God directed David
>>> in choosing the five stones, so too He directed me in loving Ben when
>>> that was not what I wanted to do.
>>> I couldn' understand why God would want me to stay in a situation where
>>> I was so hurt, where angry words criticised everything I did or
>>> said......why???
>>> But God can see the future, and He knew if I would only stick it out, be
>>> strong through the rough patches I would have what I had prayed for
>>> such a long
>>> time for, a husband who loved me, who used his words to encourage and
>>> support me, who talked to me about everything, someone who held me close
>>> and made
>>> me feel loved and secure.
>>> Thank You Father....for your love that is soo much greater than mine,
>>> for never giving up on your children, even when we have temper fits!
>>> for showing me how to forgive and how to love again!
>>> This is truly a beautiful picture of what your love can do.
>>> I thank you for Ben, for his lovve, and that he stayed too when I wasn't
>>> the most aggreable to live with. We are so blessed to have a marriage of
>>> three!
>>> Rhonda
>>>
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