Msg Base:  AREA 5  - ASK FATHER            CIN ECHO   AMDG
  Msg No: 270.  Wed  3-18-92 23:20  (NO KILL)  (MAILED)
    From: Father Mateo
      To: Steve Wells
 Subject: Lemons

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| | However, our religion should not be obsessed with gloom and fear.  We
| | believe in a Risen Lord.  Our hearts through grace are homes for the
| | Blessed Trinity.  We work and we struggle; we fall but we rise.  We
| | are full of hope.  The Bible says:  "Cast all your care upon God,
| | because He has care of you."
| |
| Father Mateo,
|   I agree with this statement of yours 150 percent. Many times Christians
| think it is their duty to be solemn and prune faced. But there are at
| least 30 different Scriptures in the New Testament telling us to be full
| of joy and happiness. We are not supposed to look as though we have been
| sucking on lemons. It looks bad and it feels bad. And it hurts our witness
| to others. I am a Protestant and have seen many of my Protestant brothers
| and siters who have this "lemon look" about them.
|    God bless....
+-[SW=>FM]
 
Dear Steve,
 
Thanks for your very nice message.
 
Somehow I'm thinking of the old saying: if God sends you a lemon, make
lemonade!
 
                                Sincerely in Christ,
 
 
                                Father Mateo