Dear Cathy,

I printed off your response to me and spent some time going over it last night.

I realized when I was reading it that you had mentioned restore ministries, not rejoice as I had assumed. I was familiar with rejoice, but not restore, so I am going to check that one out as well.

All of those verses from Proverbs are familiar to me, and at one time H even quoted one back to me about the lips of an adulteress dripping honey. But that has been a while, a long while.

Do you know the book of Hosea? There is some great stuff in there too.

I guess that the biggest gift that you gave me was the reminder to take my eyes off of my circumstances and put them back on God. Thank you, I needed that reminder.

Yesterday afternoon H called from the airport to tell the boys goodbye before he left on his 10 day trip to Europe. They were not here though, so he had to talk to me.

When he asked me how I was, I said "I am fine H. How are you?" And he said "I am fine Pam. How are you?" He notices that I usu. call him by his first name now and not "honey."

He also asked me if there was anything that I needed him for before he left the country. I couldn't think of anything that would be, I have been managing by myself for over a year now.

But before we said goodbye I blew him a kiss. He sounded very surprised. And asked if that was what I had done. I said yes, so he blew one back and said "kisses to you, take care."

And for one tiny second there it was again, hope.

Pam