In my last memo I began to describe the delicious deception I call “the gift box principle”. Your client’s life (their experiences and circumstances) is the “gift box” but the real point, in the Enemy’s plan, is that they find and enjoy Him in it. Your job is to keep them completely preoccupied with the gift box until they drop into their well-deserved graves. As I intimated in my last memo, the human scum is easier to keep if they have a pretty gift box, a nice life. When

JESUS IS THE MODEL FOR HANDLING GLOOM for a Christian. He is our model for what we should do when life begins to feel “black”. What did Jesus do when he had feelings of dread, sorrow, and hurt? How did he get back to peace? The most difficult time of Jesus’ life was in the events of his crucifixion. In his own words, it overwhelmed him with sorrow (Mark 14:34). How did he handle it? When things got black for Jesus he renewed an understanding and a commitment. Just before