Matt,

I greet you in His matchless name,

I sympathize with you. And my heart goes out to you. Love is a hard thing to get over, especially a love that was torn from us by matters we don't understand. But have heart! God said, "For I have thought it, it will come to pass". That is wonderful news! Yes, better to have love and lost than never loved at all, but how it hurts! There are so many empty platitudes. "Buck up, it isn't the end of the world!" "God has a plan!" "God has the right one for you."

Hollow and empty to a broken heart. But, it is true. God has an ultimate plan. We finite beings cannot absorb what the Maker has chosen for us. We often see the negative side, the loss, the hurt. Why me?! What bearing does this season of life hold for my future?! Oh God, oh God! Yes, Oh God! You have given me a chance to share a love. You have had it taken away. He giveth and taketh away, thus is the power and glory of Christ! Thank you for the ups and downs. Even in dispair I praise your Holy name! For you are my provider. You are my hope, my strength, my love! You shall not abandon me, even though I may wrong you, slander you, forsake you, You shall be there as a father for a wayward son. You shall comfort me in times of crises. You shall fill me with an abundant spring when I thirst. Your love shall carry me for all times. Your love is not undying nor forsaking.

Yes, Matt, cry out to the Lord for thankfulness of His faithful love! Rest assured his love for you will not wilt like a seasonal flower. Rejoice He has your intrest well at heart. He hears your cries for love. He knows the comfort you seek. And yes, Matt, as he loves us, He too knows we crave human companionship. For, "it is not good man should be alone." And God created man a mate. The love the Father shows us encompasses us. It seeks out a soul mate for you to love and worship Him with. He will fulfill you prayers of love. First through Himself, then through a mortal companion.

I too, know first hand of love gone awry. I loved a young woman with my heart. Saw us married. We were together for two years. Foolishly, I sought out "my" love. I allowed her to see other people while seeing me, just as long as I could get a few minutes with her. A christian woman, but not without scrupuls. I begain distraught when we finally parted ways. I kept in touch, praying, hoping God would lead me back to her. And yet, even if I could capture her heart, I would not have found the wife I did marry. My wife is and was "God's" love. She is two-fold. God's love for me, providing me wife a selfless woman with a servant's heart. And God's love for me personally, magnified greatly through a woman He chose for me.

No man, Matt, can tell you to wait it out. To see how it unfolds. That it will all work out. No man can tell you another will be along, or that your former love will come back in time. All any man can do is strengthen you, encourage you to rejoice in God's faith and love. Pray with you that you will seek His love first and foremost. He will provide!

And now Matt, as I leave you, I pray...
"May God shine upon your heart. Strengthen where you are weak. May the Lord hold you tight in his arms as only a true love can. May God hold you upright and steadfast. Give you cheer instead of sorrow. Lord I pray you grant all these things on Matt. Lord, may Matt seek you out gather your love, rejoice that you shall never leave him. Give this man hope in you. Pour out your love on him and allow him to grow in the love you provide Him. I ask you ease his troubled and aching heart. I pray you will lead Matt on the path of righteousness and love. I pray you lead him on the path you have chosen for him and encrouage, strengthen him to see that you are his love, his way, his life. For you are the Maker of all love. You are love defined. For you are patient, hopeful; you hold no envy, your true love is blind. I pray all this in your matchless and full loving name, Amen."

In His Grace and Eternal Love,

Rev. Cal Wiggins

Greetings, brothers and sisters,
While being stationed overseas in the military, I came to Christ...yet again. I have always had a strong urging from God to become a minister (while we are all called to be ministers), or rather a shepherd for a church. As many can guess, military life is an ongoing battle, if you will. Where is time, where is education, where is family time, where is time for God? I have recently become a minister and run a small "cyber ministry". I would not call it a church, but rather just that, a ministry. It failed miserably the first go around, mainly in part that I concerned myself with web-mastering not with following God. I soon found that when while my site was not "flashy" as it was (being a plain jane website), but held forth what God wanted it to. It soon sprang from there. Right now, Regaining Innocence Ministry is undergoing a revamp. Once again, I failed in following God. I tried to do too much too soon. I did not follow God's plan for the ministry. As of now, God wants me to focus on Men's Ministry and Military Ministry. Our Father only knows how much our brothers and sisters in the Profession of Arms need Christ right now! It is my prayer that RIM can reach out to other forms of ministry, but I am trying valiantly to follow God's plan. Of course, Men's Ministry is needed. Men have forgotten their place in the family as well as their place with God. We see so many trails with pronography and violence, abuse and lust, failed fatherhood and husbanly duties; there is a need like no other for men to follow God. We are teachers for our families. And the time is now for men to follow God and pass on the knowledge He gives us to our children and to our wives. Military Ministry is rather a new concept. Men and women who follow Christ are on the battlefield for their country and families. They see much, I can vouch, and need strength from God. The military is known for many trials of faith: seperation from spouse's, countries where sin is rampant in form of adultery and idolization. I myself live (currently) in Japan where statues of a figure are worshiped, sex is promoted in scantly hid "massage parlors", and lewd sexual activity and fertility festivals are relished.

Now is the time for followers of God to grow strong and together. For our military brethren to find strength. Times of war are at hand, and evidence suggests we are living in the End Times. It is the goal of RIM's military ministry to have a bible group in every port, base, and station; to raise up leaders of God who will boldly preach.

I pray that God uses this ministry to touch the lives of those close to and comitted to combat. I pray they recieve the Lord before they are faced with "live fire". I pray for their safety and for the God of love comforts them and hedges them from harm.

In His matchless new forever,
Rev Cal Wiggins