Heather,
I am so sorry to see you go, but I know that you must do what God gently tells you in your heart to do. I want you to know that you were a light for Him in the PMs of encouragement I got from you from time to time. I too am amazed at the grace of God that He could love a lost sinner like me. Please know that your post has reminded me this morning of His grace and love for me, and has brought genuine encouragement to me despite my being sad to see you go. These words to the hymn "My Hope is Built" come to mind:
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus Name.
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On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
When darkness seems to hide His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace.
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
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His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood.
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my Hope and Stay.
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When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh may I then in Him be found.
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.
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In Him,
Elisabeth