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Ninny:
Remember that saying from maybe the 60's or 70's?
I was having some thoughts this morning thinking about the way God works in this world...
You know those two little kids I asked you to pray for the other day..the little boy, Tucker passed away early on Sunday morning. The little girl Megan is given no hope from the doctors and is just being made comfortable until she dies...sad, but God is in control.

Now I get an email from my sister in Arizona and she tells me her husband who is a complete alcoholic, last week he bought a 30 pack of beer, a gallon of whiskey, a gallon of vodka, and a gallon of wine...he drinks it all by himself and yesterday he had to replenish his supply! I told her I wonder if he has any brain cells left! the doctor told him last year that his liver is ok??? He's been drinking since he was about 20 years old and he's 64 now!! HOW is his liver OK?? I told her that his brain is irreparably damaged from the booze! His daughter thinks he has Alzheimer's, don't you have to HAVE a brain, first?? >:(

I know there are recovering addicts on this forum and I love all of you deeply, but I just think it is so sad when the innocent ones (like little children!) suffer for no apparent reason and some people just do the drugs and alcohol and there is no reasoning with them about it! I guess there is no comparison to the two! Then there is my other brother-in-law who smokes like a freight train and just had something removed from his throat this morning and the doctor said "I'm sure it's cancer." Two years ago he had a growth removed from the same place and it was benign! Is this just God's way of doing things?? I think I would have begun to get off of cigarettes 2  years ago thinking that maybe I had been given a second chance!!

HOW MANY DEGREES OF STUPIDITY ARE THERE???
So do I sound uncaring?  I guess if I DO believe, which I DO, that God is in control and has everything planned from the beginning, then these things are all a PART of the plan! It's crazy!! I've either had too much coffee today or I need some more!! :D Life is just weird!  ???
Kathy :-\

NoviceBeliever:
Kathy:

I can understand your frustration with addicts/addiction.  It is sometimes unfathomable to think of all the pain caused by this destructive behavior.  Unfortunately, understanding about why this happens has never been revealed to me.  I am saying a prayer for you. NB

Roy Coates:
Nothing worse than seeing innocent people die in a horrible crash and the responsible driver walk away un injured because he was drunk(18 years of law enforcement I saw a few). Life is risky, fragile and not fair. Your in my prayers along with those beautiful kids and their family. The alcoholic even. My God grant healing, peace and comfort to those in need.

Roy

Ninny:
thanks, guys!
Kathy :-*

bambam:
Hello Kathy,

I don't get it either.  Especially when these same drunks go to court and fight their guilt.  They did it and there is no doubt, but they don't plead guilty-they get a lawyer and fight to get a lesser sentence or thier freedom.  My children were with a friend of mine for a weekend while my hubby and I were away.  They were in a mini van on their way home from Chucky-Cheeses, and they were T-boned by a drunk driving woman who had ran several stop signs, hit one car, kept going, and then ran a stop sign and hit my friends and my children.   I'll never forget that phone call-we were five hours away that night.  That was the longest journey home I've ever taken.  We have four children and all of the things going through my mind I cannot even begin to relay here.  But my oldest and youngest were not severly injured.  My third oldest broke his thumb and was very sore for a few days.  My second oldest suffered a traumatic brain injury, and was in a coma for four days.  He made it out okay.  It took probably six months for him to get back to his old self-and he has only minor difficulties.  My friends husband had a concussion, and her daughter broke her pelvis. Her and her son were not injured.  My friends, and my kids are miracles to me.  I'm glad it was not there time to go.  But this woman took several months of our lives away as we went through the trauma after the accident.  I don't have the answers-I do know that God was in control of all of it that night.  I don't know why it happened, but I know there was a reason.  I know that God has vessels for both honor and dishonor.  He uses all that happens and all that people do to bring about his plans.  And sometimes his plans don't feel so good.  But I am comforted by the fact that they are HIS plans and not this drunk woman's plans.  She might have been evil, but God meant it for good.  He is working all things out for the good. My heart goes out to the family of these children!!  I can't even imagine their heartache!  But God has a reason for drunk drivers, and for the accidents they cause.  I hope you can find peace in that. :)

Hugs to you,
Beth     

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