God's richest blessings to you in the name of our risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! I am slow to write and I apologize for this. No excuse! I hope this note finds you well! I have been praying about your invitation to be a contributor to your web site. I have so many things I want to write about and yet to me this is a very serious task, to put things out there for people to read and consider. It is very serious before the Father also, I believe, and I would never want to knowingly mishandle the Word. I do occasionally write for my local newspaper in the Religion page with other contributors on a rotating basis. There is so much error each Saturday, that I don't know if I  get through to anybody.  I am the only "lay" one that contributes, I believe, and there is the gamut (as you know) in the "Religious" field!  All I want to do is speak the truth in love and that is truly where my heart is. Father covers all my many shortcomings and only looks at my heart and still loves me as He does with every believer. Maybe some of the contributors of the newspaper are believers also, I don't know. You speak a lot about the book of Job. This is the one book that really lays out human suffering and healing in the Bible. Job's story (true story) moves from suffering to believing to deliverance. I'm glad you know this book by experience. I'm sure it has made you more spiritually mature. The Word of God is so amazing, so Right Now- even if it is thousands of years ago, it is God speaking NOW! After all, they are the words of LIFE, SPIRITUAL LIFE to us! The more Word you hold in your heart, the more of the life of God you will manifest in your life.When one confesses Jesus Christ as Lord -holy spirit enters in and one is then not just body and soul(breath-life) but a three- part being once again, gaining back what Adam had forfeited so long ago: spirit. The connection man was to have with God, putting man into God's realm. To be able to have fellowship, to walk and to talk with God. But even after receiving the spirit- the mind must be renewed -according to the Word of God, we put on-"the mind" of Christ. To "put on" indicates works, something we can and should do. The spirit is by grace, the renewing of our minds is works we need to do.The renewed mind is our key to the power. We get a "new figure" from the truths of God's Word and put those thoughts in our minds and are in time become transformed-metamorphosis- by the renewing of our minds according to the Word of God. I used to think I was "shy" for example. Well, now the Word doesn't say-"Cheryl, you are my daughter now, but full of shyness"- no, it says, that it's Christ in me the hope of glory! Why be shy? That's not what I am to confess about myself, I am what the Word says I am!!! The thoughts I hold in my mind are vital! Thoughts of death and the world's train of thought or thoughts of life and God's Word. Job was a wonderful man who loved and reverenced God yet his fear opened the door downward Job 3:25. Yet he never blamed God or renounced God for his situation. He continued to look to God, even with all his losses. then in Job 42:1-5 he states that "up until this time, while I had all this abundance upon my life, I only heard of thee with the hearing of the ear. But since I have come through this, I now see." Many of us have mainly heard of God by the hearing of the ears. But we grow spiritually as we believe the Word of God. As we believe, we see the promises of God come to pass in our lives. As Job trusted in God's deliverance and saw the greatness of who God was-Job got meek, humbled and he prayed for his friends - he got the deliverance. He received back twice as much as he had before!  I'm believing you have the abundance of Job in every area also, mostly in the area of seeing God and knowing that you know Him more and more, John. Sort of like Paul's prayer in Eph. that the eyes of your understanding are enlightened. I'm desiring this also in my walk. So, John I need to go get my hubby and son (daughter is at college now) some supper before there is trouble brewing around here and I will write you again soon. I will continue to pray for a topic to write about and send you another e-mail soon.

God Bless! Take care!!

Cheryl