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From: "erin hopper" <****@hotmail.com>
To: [email protected]
Subject: what is the saying?
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 02:12:55 EST
If you have lemons make lemonade????
I definetly give you the award for the most lemons and your mother is the one handing them to you. What does she possibly have to say? She should just be happy that you are rid of the bad memory! Right?!?
do you need me to take care of this because I will go tell her. I will tell her what's up right away. I will drive right to her house
and as long as she doesn't try to make me wash dishes or tell me about the jealous boyfriend I will tell her (in the meanest voice I can possibly find) to be nice to you!!!!!!!
Just kiddin, but for real, more and more every day I know that God is the only thing that you can depend on in this world. I hate to say it, but sometimes he has to distribute wake up calls. Do
you ever think that he is sending some your way and you aren't responding so he has to keep allowing more and more things happen to you until you discover that there's no one you can trust but him? I don't know the exact process for doling out the wake up calls, because it seems like some people(Billy
for example) just make it okay in the world alone, then there are
definetly people like me who get pooped on everytime I try to handle things, but gets good things everytime I turn it over to God. Maybe I am talking about things that I don't really know about, but by my observations I would think that you are more on the side of things that I am. Sometimes I wonder who is better off, but I guess I always know in my heart that just like my
parents, the fact that God won't let me get to far away means that he loves me, so I guess that is something to be happy about. Anyway. I looked at your web page. AWESOME!! It is wicked (HAHA). i am still amazed and not really understanding this whole internet thing. I probably never will, but it is cool!!! Can you imagine the days before e mail? I can't.
Gotta go to bed. Church is going to be here before I know it in the morning. It is rainy and kinda cold out so you know I am gonna sleep good tonight. I have much to say about mike, so I will try to write tomorrow.
Love and miss,
erin
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From: Sean
To: Erin Hopper<****@hotmail.com>
Subject: erin got me tinkin'
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 20:25:00 EST
word up hopper
your email hit me. i've been thinking about it all day.
so much just doesn't make sense in my head. so much just doesn't balance out. here i am in sarajevo. a city where people just like you an me brutally murdered each other simply for the reason that one guy was a muslim and another an orthodox Christian.
irfan took me to a street where one of his best friends was shot and killed by a sniper.
a war was waged here over last names and ethnic background. i don't understand what kinda god could allow such a thing.
another thing that really gets me is this.
if you are a Christian you ultimately feel, whether you know it or not, that Jews, Muslims, Buddhist, Hindus, or whoever are wrong because they don't believe in Jesus Christ and the Christian religion. if they are wrong in the way of Christianity then they will burn in hell. how can this be? what makes this so? how can they just be "wrong".
well i was thinking about all of this during dinner and a navy officer saw my pondering. i have shot the shit with him before. i knew that he was a chaplain and so i asked him these questions. and he answered them.
he explained that no matter what you believe or what you know to be true you are still human. and with your humanity you make mistakes.
war is a thing that happens because a line must be drawn to stop the killing. in a way two wrongs end up making a right. there is a difference in killing in war and murder in anger and hate. a very thin line but one exists and i do not deny that.
kinda like this example.
if you had the opportunity to go back in time and murder hitler before he came to power would you do it? of course you would because you know how many lives you would save. would you be a murderer or a hero? hero. would you be any less of a Christian? no.
a line must be drawn to save lives in the long run.
he also explained to me an answer to my question of a difference in religions.
it went something like this.
he told me about a man named C.S. Lewis. he was a writer and a mathematician and he once said that "for every problem there is only one answer."
now the chaplain said that even though lewis was not speaking indictivily of religion his idea can be used for it.
if there is only one right answer then there are allot of other answers that are very close to being 100% correct. some more then others. but ultimately all the solutions are striving to be the same thing. an answer. a truth. a basic feeling that there is something bigger then ourselves. this can be viewed as God by Christians, or Allah by Muslims, or Buddha by Buddhists.
i know that there is something out there or else i would not be asking questions. i know that i feel something because i am searching for it.
is there a God?
yes.
have i found him?
i think so.
am i at peace with him?
i'm getting closer.
thankyou erin
i love and miss you hopper
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