Dearest Brother Charles;

    I read your letter with an "Amen" from me after every sentence. You wrote of the longing to be pulled out of this pit, being forever in an intimate relationship with Christ and the futility and vanity of nothing being of value here anymore. Amen and amen!!

   We have been obedient in our command to 'occupy' until He comes. But now, as were gathered on the hill waiting for the sunrise, the waiting is both a blessing and a curse.

  The hardest part is knowing that Jesus is coming and so is the Wrath of G-d and when you try to communicate the urgency of the message, everyone looks at you and says, "So what!!"

 Remember how Noah had the same problem; telling the people a hard rain was gonna fall...and they laughed at him. It must have been hard on Noah too, because there was plenty of room on that ark!!

 

Thank you, Charles:

-Patrick