Dear Chip!

I did not know the depth of your suffering.  I knew you were awake most
nights, walking around (must be hard to walk in your condition).

What a testimony to what "drugs" have done to our world.  And still we
have open borders most places, with drugs coming across, the worst
consequence of our open borders.  I fear to even drive on our good,
mostly unclogged roads here in New Mexico, because of the high auto
accident rate we have.  Even if I drive well, carefully, legally, there
is always the chance that a drugged up person will cross the center
line and get me, in the manner they do on  our Cerrillos Road in Santa
Fe.   They kill people in broad daylight on Cerrillos-- we don't even
have to wait until the "cocktail hour".

This is one reason I like to listen to Lou Dobbs.  He tells it like it
is about the drugs which are coming daily across our borders.  Some
people (like Jesse Ventura the other night on Larry King) say that Lou
is just "against" brown people from Mexico.  Far from it!  Lou is
married to  Mexican, he is for legal immigration, but he says the WORST
part of our
unguarded borders is the continual daily influx of drugs, the primary
source of all of our illegal drugs.  And on the borders violence is so
increasing that even the Mexican government has sent soldiers to Juarez
to try to cope with it.

Yes, our government has caused a very unfair situation to exist.  And
insurance companies, such as yours, and the medical system, such as
yours, has compounded the terrible unfairness.

I am so sorry for your egregious suffering, Chip, and I will keep you
in my daily prayers.  And thank you for praying for me and for my
husband Irv.  Yesterday was a better day, and perhaps this was from the
Doves' prayers, including yours?  It was not an easy day, or a day in
which fear was absent, but it was a much better day--"sanity" at least
returned, calm, hope in the Lord.

May you too hang on tight to our hope in our Lord, but more than that,
may our Lord come soon for all of us who are suffering the unjust
hammer of "the world" as it is.

Jesus said "ye shall have tribulation," and yes, He was right again.
As you also said, we may be in the tribulation now.  From where you and
I sit, it feels like it, Chip.

Heartfelt prayers for you, my suffering brother in Christ.

Mariel