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To: gregor who wrote (4265)	8/20/2002 2:50:58 AM
From: Jamey	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 14396

Gregor, I mostly lurk on the thread. I haven't a church home because there are no Preterist Churches in my area. I fill lots of my time answering e-mail and encouraging the addicted from my recovery web site but I have no one to pray for me. I am very sad in spirit because after ten years of sobriety and telling others about what Christ will do for them I am practically depleted. The reason is that my immediate family, (sons and a step father) continue to open old wounds, gossip behind my back about me and see my forgiving attitude and humility of spirit as weakness. They hold me up to man's success and wealth and I am found wanting by my bunch of materialists. The oldest son who sorrows me the most is a church member. He is very successful with job, home, swimming pool, money and looks down on me and talks behind my back, using my long ago past against me and my lack of interest in wealth and worldly success as laziness although I am totally disabled from neck and back injuries. My step father and I had a heated discussion as he has decided to give all of his money to my son whose 10 year old daughter has won his heart. My Mom passed away a year ago and she was the wealth accumulator, him being a hanger on and inheriting her money and home. I am an only son and she would never approve of him doing this to me and the wife. He is even giving my Mom's old wedding rings to the 10 year old girl. He says my son and himself think that my wife and I are fakes and only pretend to be sincere Christians. I stand up to them but refuse to accuse them, making me look like I am not standing up for myself and to them a weak person. He is of Russian descent and swears like a sailor when I come around. My wife and I both individually and together visited him weekly and fixed meals for him on Sundays since Mom passed away. We had to deliver them because he won't come to our home. Now, he says he never asked for our help, and he can take care of himself! (76 years old, angina, heart trouble, overweight, and has diabetes.) He has suffered a few pin strokes in his eye but refuses to go to a doctor. His latest rampage against me was because I kept telling him he needed to go see a doctor. You can see why I am weighed down in spirit. I feel like I have been betrayed and just want to move out of their lives forever. There is no hope that they can change at this late date. I don't want prayers for anything from them. I just want to be healed spiritually of these terrible relatives that I inherited. I know that you have a a healing ministry and you prayed once for me several years ago. I don't care who reads this. I have nothing in my life to hide. Christ has already covered that. God bless you and thanks. James