John 10:10  A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy......

It's been a rough week.  I don't know about you all, but Satan has hounded me right and left for days now.  He's in my dreams, he's in my relationships, and he's right here in the women at home community.  A lot of you don't see everything that goes on behind the scenes, even the admin don't know a lot of it.  But I hear things about growing friendships with Christ at the foundation, of bills being paid, or gifts being sent, of the body of Christ that has sprung up here going out and doing the work of Christ.  We have Satan's attention.

While I was on my mission trip a few weeks ago, one of the partners kept telling the kids "Don't let Satan have your fries"  They all knew what it meant, but I didn't.  So, I asked.  And was told the story told by a speaker at conference I had not attended the summer before.  That speaker talked about when he was little, his favorite thing was McDonald's french fries.  He and his father would often go and spend special time together over a package of those fries.  One time they went and the package was not as full as it normally is.  His father, sensing the son's disappointment, and wanting to get what he paid for went back and asked that they please fill the carton correctly.  The employee, somehow thinking this was spiteful, crammed as many fries as would fit into the carton.  The father took the fries back to the son and said "Son, don't let them steal your fries."

Most of us probably don't have fries as our most treasured possession, but we all have treasured possessions.  Make no mistake, Satan wants them.  He wants your fries, and he will do whatever it takes to get them.  This board is one of my treasured possessions.  And I dare say I speak for all the administrators and Shepherds and probably all of you when I say that.  I love this place.  It's my fries.  This morning, Satan went after those fries, and he thought he got them.  He stole the posts, the messages, the topics, the recipes.  He got 'em.  But those aren't the fries. The fries are the relationships, the love, the understanding, the adivice, all the lovely women that make up this family.  Satan wanted my fries.  But all he got was a face full of ketchup.

We didn't wake up this morning expecting to rebuild the Women at Home Forum, but that is what we will do today, and tomorrow and in the days to come.  It won't look the same on the outside, and it will take some time feeling settled again.  But that's just surface stuff.  The real heart of Women at Home is what you will bring with you when you come.  Bring your best.  Bring your love, your laughter, your patience, your compassion.  Bring your fries.  Don't let Satan have even one.