# 19

Julie's Tender Mercy:

A few things that have happened lately that have been great.

First off, this morning I was irritated with certain things going on with Lisa and I was going to email her and confront her about something I did NOT like. As I was getting ready to study the scriptures I asked myself what I should study. I thought of these feelings I had and thought that patients might be a good fit. Well I thought a little harder on if that's best fitting and realized it was more about unconditional love. Christ was spit on, hated, beaten, he had taken much pain from others and so much more and he still loved them. Now I haven't been had even a minuscule amount of that but it can still be hard. I felt like this was an inspired topic and I LOVED studying about it. Second off, WE LOVE hanging out with Christie and Brian for food and games. SO FUN! Its a blessing to have them here and for us to click so well with them.

We LOVE having friends and they are great ones!

Gary's tender mercy:

We have had a lot of hard things going on and it has been hard. It was nice to go to Brian and Christies house and have food and have fun and not worrying about the rest of life and the details of the busy life we lead.