Hi "Brother" Charles...

I really enjoy your letters, and I look forward to reading each one of them.  They are totally unique!  You probably write like you speak, and that makes you all the more such an amazing individual. I felt like telling this to you...maybe I just needed to make the connection.   I don't have a clue to the solution of your problem.  I've "been there and done that" in the past, and all I've learned is that I can't change anyone....just myself!  It's a wasted effort to even try.  Maybe that's why God told us to not be unequally yoked with unbelievers (we don't listen when our hormones run wild).  But, what does one do when they are married to a Laodicean?  Relax in the Lord, and trust Him for the answers.  This is not my field of expertise.  But husbands are told to "love your wives"......Eph 5:25.  Wives are told to "submit to" and "reverence" their hus! bands.  In today's world I don't think either knows how any more.

What did concern me is your statement of "the world in her and the spirit in me are a bridge I am trying to span...."  All I can think of here is Lot's wife.  The "spirit" in you and the "world" in her are not compatible, so just be aware of that.  Those in the "world" can't understand us who are "looking up" all the time.  It makes them angry, and they continually try to pull us down to their level.  That's an awful struggle...I've lived it.

This song has always lifted me up in those times that I went through that were similar to yours:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu_fm0oedGU&feature=related

(if the link doesn't open, google "I Wish We'd All Been Ready" by Larry Norman...DC Top (?) does the best job! on the song)

And some scripture verses to contemplate:

Romans 7:14-24....even Paul got frustrated.

John 15:19

I John 2:15-17

Matthew 10:37-38

I wish I could be of more help.  I just wanted to let you know that others have gone through the same thing at one time or another.  I'd like to think I came out of it sane....but there are some who would not agree with me.  I'll leave them to God....

YsiC,

Arlene