That's wonderful news, Phil.  I often think of you guys and Gretchen and
the kids and pray for you, even if I don't post much.  Let's just pray that
Gretchen doesn't blow this wonderful God-given opportunity for healing.

I really think letting Jesus be Lord of our lives is an ongoing,
moment-by-moment thing.  As long as we have free will, which is as long as
we live, we need to keep bringing our thoughts and choices into submission
to His will, as best as we understand it.

Peggy

At 07:51 PM 3/18/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Our daughter was given permission to stay enrolled with the church ministry
>drug rehab program instead of being sent to prison for now.  The county
>where she was arrested and sentenced, however, is requiring that she come in
>once or twice a week, as they dictate, and take a urine test.  They wouldn't
>have required this but the church ministry takes no government funding or
>state funding plus they do no U A testing since they assign someone to each
>person that is new and they are never allowed to be alone.  So we praise the
>Lord for the decision to allow her to stay.  The stress that built up over
>this one thing the last week or so has been impossible to describe.  It
>finally came to me yesterday as I thought, or someone impressed their
>thoughts upon my thoughts, what are you going to do if she goes to prison?
>Finally I heard my own spirit replying softly and saying, Jesus will still
>be Lord if she goes to prison.  Then came the thought, And what about her
>children if she goes to prison?  My spirit immediately said, Jesus will
>still be Lord.  I know this sort of response sounds trite or even
>superficial but this response is totally new to me as someone who has walked
>with the Lord for 47 years.  I was always taught to live by rule and
>regulation and that performance superceded experience and circumstances.  It
>has only been in the last two years, actually more like the passed 18
>months, that my entire Christian life and relationship with the Lord has
>begun to shift into an area of spirituality I never knew existed.  Thus,
>Lordship is new to me.  I would bet, if I was a betting Baptist, that I have
>not only heard more sermons and Bible lessons on Lordship than anybody on
>this list, but I bet I have preached on the topic of Lordship more than
>anybody on this list, too.  I know very little about it now but I knew
>nothing about it then.  I thought, I hear someone saying, that happened when
>you were born again, that is, we make Jesus the Lord of our life.  Yep,
>that's right.  I am learning now, however, just how much of my life the Lord
>does not yet have.  Thanks for all your prayers.
>
>Phil.

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