You said of your long lesson written to us that those are blessed who
"endure to the end".

I sent your letter to a Christian who is nearly blind, who posts a lot
on the web, and has become a friend.  I forgot that it was rather long
for him to read without difficulty.  He has written often on a spring
rapture which he saw in a vision over twenty years ago.  Occasionally
has read here on the Doves.

He wrote back that this account of the rapture is closer to his own
than most.  And he said that it was very long for him to read with his
difficult eyes.  So he had his wife read it all to him.

His wife has a benign brain tumor and must decide whether to remove it
or lose function and die, yet it is in a difficult and dangerous place
to remove.  I think many of us are living through hard decisions like
theirs, forced to rely on God.

These two and their brain-damaged (from and accident) son and the son's
wife have lived through great hardship and are faithful.  Please pray
for Searl and Sue and their little holy family, that God may help them
endure to the end.

Mariel