I also am trying to 'continue in faith' and yet every time I trust a little, or try a new thing, I get burned again. It's bad enough in the world, but I kind of get it, even expect it, but when it happens 'in the church'?! I've been to some CR...some good folks...my lack of trust isn't on them, it's on me, and I'm feeling too old and tired to even bother trying anymore. HEY! MAGENTA! How bout a pic of Charlie Brown for jsr and me and the rest of us friends of the 'Lucys' out there, you know, the one where we trust, AGAIN, and she yanks the football away AGAIN?! (and they laugh and call us pitiful suckers, until the next time they convince us we'll be happy and more fulfilled if we just learn to trust) I can hear some of them laughing even now. All I can say is..........hmmmm.........nevermind........