Rhonda, Very good. Excellent. I'm praying for you with many lovings and squeezings, and I pray for restful nights with much sleep and peace. I'm praying for Ben with the job situation. Love and Blessings, Pat Ferguson At 10:07 PM 10/26/04, you wrote: >I was thinking, and I thought what if God had a dictionary. What if it were >like Webster's dictionary and it had God's definitions for words like: >trust, peace, love, belief, forgiveness. What do you think his definitions >would say? How would they differ from your own definitions for the same >words? >In my case, I think that peace is: the absence of stress, while I think >God's definition would be: feeling asense of calmness despite circumstances >or problems. >Maybe I should change my definition to His, would get more sleep that way. > >Father: I am just like the disciples who were worried during the storm, they >saw the waves, they felt the winds, and they were like me afraid. They let >circumstances take their eyes off of you, Jesus slept while the storm spun >around him. I want to trust You, but I find that because I have put my >trust in people and they have let me down, I am fearful of trusting You. >The truth is that You are not like people, past experience shows your >faithfulness to past generations and to me. Give me your definition of >peace, your definition of trust! >for they are so much better than the ones I have been working with. >I have certainly learned much these past few years, Ihave seen that love >does bear all things, and past memories of hurt can becolored by the light >of forgiveness, what was surely lost, can be restored, relationships and >peace of mind. Remind me of these things, when I am awake at midnight, when >the"what if..." voices call to me. These words are not from You. >When I am quiet, I can hear words that are true, I am loved, I am accepted, >there is a plan, and with these words in my heart, I will say goodnight God, > >I love You. > > >Rhonda