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No victories without battles. The good news that the battle is the Lord's so we are always sure of the outcome- Victory!
One thing that strongly comes to mind now is that God allows us to go through challenging times not only to build our character but to also prepare us for an assignment-helping those who experience similar challenges pull through theirs successfully!
He is a good God who sees ahead, He never leaves his children all by themselves!
One thing that strongly comes to mind now is that God allows us to go through challenging times not only to build our character but to also prepare us for an assignment-helping those who experience similar challenges pull through theirs successfully!
He is a good God who sees ahead, He never leaves his children all by themselves!
K
No victories without battles. The good news that the battle is the Lord's so we are always sure of the outcome- Victory!
One thing that strongly comes to mind now is that God allows us to go through challenging times not only to build our character but to also prepare us for an assignment-helping those who experience similar challenges pull through theirs successfully!
He is a good God who sees ahead, He never leaves his children all by themselves!
One thing that strongly comes to mind now is that God allows us to go through challenging times not only to build our character but to also prepare us for an assignment-helping those who experience similar challenges pull through theirs successfully!
He is a good God who sees ahead, He never leaves his children all by themselves!
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there is something "really awesome" being alone with God... I think to myself.. There isn't "one person" who knows "really" where I'm at .. It makes me smile .. we out on our outfits, do up our hair , hide behind fig leaves in all sorts of scripture, paint our lipstick smiles , straighten up our ties , and walk into the world looking happy, laughing , joking ..hanging with friends , with family ... And in all the middle of all that .. Not one person "really" knows ... beyond places hugs can not reach, kisses can not get too, a smile can not penetrate...and groups gathered together can not reach ....
BUT GOD....
Oh yes, but God...
I have scratched people off because I thought I could trust them and could not
Because I thought I could tell them something in confidence and it be kept there,
Because I thought I could trust their honesty ...
Scratched people off to such a degree that all I had left was a solitary place, quietness, no interaction with people ...
I was left alone
With God...
Naked before Him..
in all my mess, my failures , my inconsistencies , me..
What I found was a God who is not perched up on His throne ..
But "RIGHT HERE" with me in the middle of all my mess..
The only one who really knows where Im at right here right now ..
I talk to Him like Hes a living, walking, talking, breathing, eye blinking , person ..
I feel like Jacob, who went all the way back . .. As it was to suppose to be all along .. In the beginning ... But God ...
But God , but God ...
I dont have to hide from Him, I dont have to search for Him, I don't have to go looking for Him...
Because He knows "exactly" where I'm at..
BUT GOD....
Oh yes, but God...
I have scratched people off because I thought I could trust them and could not
Because I thought I could tell them something in confidence and it be kept there,
Because I thought I could trust their honesty ...
Scratched people off to such a degree that all I had left was a solitary place, quietness, no interaction with people ...
I was left alone
With God...
Naked before Him..
in all my mess, my failures , my inconsistencies , me..
What I found was a God who is not perched up on His throne ..
But "RIGHT HERE" with me in the middle of all my mess..
The only one who really knows where Im at right here right now ..
I talk to Him like Hes a living, walking, talking, breathing, eye blinking , person ..
I feel like Jacob, who went all the way back . .. As it was to suppose to be all along .. In the beginning ... But God ...
But God , but God ...
I dont have to hide from Him, I dont have to search for Him, I don't have to go looking for Him...
Because He knows "exactly" where I'm at..
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I'm sitting here was looking at all the topics in the forums ..
and it takes me to a place , i see a land .. Full of wells .. I couldn't figure out why I was getting tired of the participation in running to them.. There are many to run too..
I can't help as I step back and just start observing ..
No wonder I'm tired ..
How many wells have gods thoughts in them .the truth of who He is and who We are in Christ .. where rejection does not exist, where the things people say are not criticized or judged . where things are being shared that God is known better through what he's done in our lives.. Or am I running to wells placed in a land filled with stagnant water..
think I will go back and take a very good look...
the wells ... Wich ones have gods living water really in them .. Wich ones need living water poured in..
It will be interesting I think to see what is really happening .. what the health condition of this body coming together really looks like ..
and it takes me to a place , i see a land .. Full of wells .. I couldn't figure out why I was getting tired of the participation in running to them.. There are many to run too..
I can't help as I step back and just start observing ..
No wonder I'm tired ..
How many wells have gods thoughts in them .the truth of who He is and who We are in Christ .. where rejection does not exist, where the things people say are not criticized or judged . where things are being shared that God is known better through what he's done in our lives.. Or am I running to wells placed in a land filled with stagnant water..
think I will go back and take a very good look...
the wells ... Wich ones have gods living water really in them .. Wich ones need living water poured in..
It will be interesting I think to see what is really happening .. what the health condition of this body coming together really looks like ..
Concert went really well last night. Before the doors opened, though, there was a car accident in front of the building. =\ The awesome thing was, though, is that a lot of people in line, including my sisters, a friend and I, prayed for those people in the accident (the car rolled 3-4 times).
When we got in, I saw and talked to a lot of my friends. A friend of the family's who is a pastor told me he liked what I had to say about God and our happiness, and that he actually used it in his sermon. I was pleasantly surprised for sure.
I didn't meet any of the bands since we were too tired, but it was overall pretty good!
When we got in, I saw and talked to a lot of my friends. A friend of the family's who is a pastor told me he liked what I had to say about God and our happiness, and that he actually used it in his sermon. I was pleasantly surprised for sure.
I didn't meet any of the bands since we were too tired, but it was overall pretty good!
You can't force someone to see that they can be their own worst enemy. I'm hurt by a friends action. I don't know what to say to her. She's the type of person who can dish it out but can't take it. She's going through a really hard time and I don't want to kick someone when they are down. I've been friends with this person for years, but my tolerance for her sarcastic snarky behavior has worn thin. My actions now are texting her to see how she's doing but avoiding her.
Much as I love my bump, It's starting to get hard to bend over and pick up stuff my little sister drops, or things that I want off the floor. It's starting to be more logical not to turn sideways when I'm passing someone in the hall, because I'm getting to where I'm bigger turning sideways than I am just letting them walk by me. I'd rather people bump into my shoulders than my baby.
He's so big and strong, I didn't expect to be able to feel him on the outside or see him move from the outside this soon after feeling the first movement from him. I love my baby so very much, I can't imagine what possesses other women to have abortions, no matter the circumstance in which they became pregnant. I can't say the circumstances of my pregnancy were very good either, but I can't help feeling so very blessed by this little one. i couldn't imagine a mother giving up her child like that, but maybe it's just me.
He's so big and strong, I didn't expect to be able to feel him on the outside or see him move from the outside this soon after feeling the first movement from him. I love my baby so very much, I can't imagine what possesses other women to have abortions, no matter the circumstance in which they became pregnant. I can't say the circumstances of my pregnancy were very good either, but I can't help feeling so very blessed by this little one. i couldn't imagine a mother giving up her child like that, but maybe it's just me.
I know exactly what you mean. Also, I don't know whether I'm a pessimist or optimist (it depends on what area of my life you're talking about on whether I'm pessimistic or optimistic, so I'm a strange mix I suppose) but I feel it'd be exhausting to live that way each day, just having that much hope for it. I don't mean to put limits on God, but I don't think I'd want to tell myself "today could be the day I meet him" and then have every day not be it. It just sounds too disappointing.
There's my pessimism.
I wonder if pessimism is Biblical. It seems like optimism would be, but it's probably more of a mixture? I don't know. I'm tired and I think too much.
There's my pessimism.
I wonder if pessimism is Biblical. It seems like optimism would be, but it's probably more of a mixture? I don't know. I'm tired and I think too much.
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Hey, those are a doll's legs in your current avatar, julieannie, you can't fool me !!!
I may be a bear of very little brain but I know a girl's real legs when I see them and dem there those uh-huh are fake, and, they are the legs of that girl in 'Gulliver' movie, in the dollhouse scene; good ole mighty midget (what Gulliver is a GIANT, green!) Jack Black slings a stone at her head and she topples to the ground. Oh, just kidding, we all know THAT didn't happen
I may be a bear of very little brain but I know a girl's real legs when I see them and dem there those uh-huh are fake, and, they are the legs of that girl in 'Gulliver' movie, in the dollhouse scene; good ole mighty midget (what Gulliver is a GIANT, green!) Jack Black slings a stone at her head and she topples to the ground. Oh, just kidding, we all know THAT didn't happen
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The bending/moving...it gets more difficult. By 9 months, you'll be going "Get outta here already!" I think God made it that way for women who are scared of giving birth...you get to a point where you're more tired of being giant and nearly immobile than you are afraid of having that baby.
Not that you said you're scared of it. Just...uh...rambling.
Not that you said you're scared of it. Just...uh...rambling.
I should just shut down. No one really cares what I have to say anyway. As long as I keep to myself and leave others alone I won't be a burden or a bother to anyone. It's not like they genuinely care. They have their own problems. I'm just going to have to choke down my own issues for the time being and hope for the best.
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Going into Avoidance Mode. Sometimes I tell people things that should be on a need-to-know basis. I am quite honest about myself, my feelings. Afterwards, I face-palm, and get mad at myself 'why why, did you tell them that?!' Cus apparently I have a compulsion that I must be authentic, or like the world would end, God forbid. I irritate myself often.
Time to go hide under a rock for a bit, until the girl I told (and the other girl that I realized overheard), somehow had erased it from their memory, and I can gain my dignity back. And we can all pretend I didn't say anything. Dignity increases with time right? Right?
Time to go hide under a rock for a bit, until the girl I told (and the other girl that I realized overheard), somehow had erased it from their memory, and I can gain my dignity back. And we can all pretend I didn't say anything. Dignity increases with time right? Right?