Dear Tracy,......
        ..........I can tell you, like everyone on Doves can,...and every "true' Chrisitan around the world,......that you aren't the only one going thru, what you are going thru.   Yep,.......it's a bummer,.......and the heart sinks again in real pain !!!,.........to each time you built yourself up in praying that "This will be the Day" !!!, ........and then to know that you have to face another day, away from your real home......HEAVEN, and most of all,.....Jesus HIMSELF !

        Yes,..it hurts !!........but what I am learning & believe, is that HE is trying to teach us something while we wait for HIM...........and that is a deeper understand of HIS "Grace",......and it will !!!........bring us thru everything,......even this waiting period, and this sick & crazy world, that is only getting sicker as each day passes.

        I believe that if you allow HIS Grace to do it's work, (and it's all you need, like all of us).........and be still, HE will "draw" you deeper into HIMSELF !!!...........to teach you more about HIMSELF,......you never thought possible.   HE is the answer to "everything",.......HE is "endless" !!!.........and even when we get home,......and we are in eternity, where there is no time !!!...........it will take even more then that (eternity)......to still get to know everything HE is !!!     He is "I Am" !...........just dwell on that for awhile,...and look out into the heavens, at night at all the stars that are just hanging there, and each one HE has named !!   Be "still" in all of HIS creation that HE has made for you (and everyone), to see all HIS handywork !  Rejoice in it !!......as you and all of us,...wait for our Blessed Hope !,........and HE is coming for us,...because HE said HE was !         He is the lifter of our head !.....and knows what all of us are going thru, as we wait for HIM.

      We know Jesus doesn't  lie,........so you,......like all of us must continually go to HIS Word, and go over every promise HE said He would do,.......and believe them !!!......without doubt !!   Become a child again, with "simple faith",.......and know that "He will never leave or forsake you" !   "Be still, and know that I am God" (HE said).    HIS Word,...is alive !!!........and it does what HE said it would, since HE is The Word !

      You, like all of us,...can't give up "hope" now !!!.....

                                   .................the signs are everywhere, and the stage is set, for HIS return !!
We, all hurt just like you,......read Psalm 23,...over and over.........and get back into HIS Word, and pray for  that "Child like Faith",......like we all must do !!

            Something, as we grow older, we all must do !!......or relearn it, .......as He Himself said !

                        Keep looking up !!!.......because that Blessed day, will come ! (it just wasn't on Sept 13th, or sometime last week)......... which all of us were hoping for)

                                                                            You are not alone in this !
                                                                                        God Bless.
                                                                                                Chip