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I've been through that kind of situation. Happened when I was living with my mom and grandma, knowing I'd have to go to public school for my junior year...EVERYTHING was going wrong. I was slacking on schooling, my mom had to take care of Grandma because the nursing home kicked her out...I wasn't getting along with my mom AT ALL. Her and I would fight Lord knows how much. I pretty much thought my life was over.
That's the point where God stepped in and was like, "Hey. I have a purpose for you. You're gonna be fine, and you're gonna follow My plans, and they will give you a joy you haven't experienced in a while." and...I did. I'm fine, I'm doing exactly what He told me I was gonna do when I was 14.
Sometimes, you just gotta make yourself slow down and let God give you that joy you've been missing. It doesn't matter how busy life is. We need it. It's sometimes the only way we can cope.
And just remember. Trials don't last forever. Turn to God and you'll come out on top.
That's the point where God stepped in and was like, "Hey. I have a purpose for you. You're gonna be fine, and you're gonna follow My plans, and they will give you a joy you haven't experienced in a while." and...I did. I'm fine, I'm doing exactly what He told me I was gonna do when I was 14.
Sometimes, you just gotta make yourself slow down and let God give you that joy you've been missing. It doesn't matter how busy life is. We need it. It's sometimes the only way we can cope.
And just remember. Trials don't last forever. Turn to God and you'll come out on top.
I'm really getting tired of my little brother being such a drama king. He really doesn't have to scream his lungs out when he gets a stuffed animal thrown at him. He's supposed to be a boy, hence, tougher than a girl, less emotional, less like a sissy. He's not supposed to scream like that. But I guess when he's really in trouble, no ones going to be listening, that's what happens when you "cry wolf"
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I haven't been sleeping much, and not well when I do. I've also been pushing myself beyond physical limits when I shouldn't, and now I've got swollen knees and a gash in my leg from a really sharp, really vicious stick.
I had a dream last night that I went to the ER, even though I felt mostly fine, and they told me I was about to die if I didn't get a certain medicine ASAP. So, I didn't go get it, I just went home. I don't remember if I died or not.
I don't remember if I died or not.
This...means....something.
I also edited my mother-in-law's shopping list for her last night, and I don't remember doing it. She had 5 or 6 things written, and I apparently added "Catapult kit" (because I don't know how to build one from scratch?) and "Dragon bait" (we have a huge dragon problem around here, so this is only sensible...).
When she saw the changes, she couldn't stop laughing. It made me wish I could remember being that funny.
Bummer.
I had a dream last night that I went to the ER, even though I felt mostly fine, and they told me I was about to die if I didn't get a certain medicine ASAP. So, I didn't go get it, I just went home. I don't remember if I died or not.
I don't remember if I died or not.
This...means....something.
I also edited my mother-in-law's shopping list for her last night, and I don't remember doing it. She had 5 or 6 things written, and I apparently added "Catapult kit" (because I don't know how to build one from scratch?) and "Dragon bait" (we have a huge dragon problem around here, so this is only sensible...).
When she saw the changes, she couldn't stop laughing. It made me wish I could remember being that funny.
Bummer.
I haven't slept well in a while. Though last night I remember my dreams. They were quite weird. I dunno how many of you guys have watched NCIS: Los Angeles but I dreamed I was with them in a trailer and a bomb was gonna go off in 10 seconds and we had to RUN outta there, and I was out last and I dreamed that TWICE. Once I got out JUST as the bomb exploded and the other the bomb was about to blow as I was right about to get out the door and I practically got forced outta my sleep. Not on purpose, either.
I have such weird dreams
Maybe I'm better off not remembering my dreams
I have such weird dreams
Maybe I'm better off not remembering my dreams
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Working with my boss is quite interesting. Enneagram wise, he is a 1 and I am a 4. In stress 1 goes to an unhealthy 4, gets on a emotional high, can get in a pissy mood, but still with idealistic and perfectionist quality of the 1. Makes them jerks blaming others. On the other hand, I am a 4 who tries to integrate to a healthy 1 since that's the way I can grow. Stay in the here and now, be objective and rational to balance the feelings and dreaming. There was a lot of stress at work today, I percieved him going towards the 4 personality about to lash out on someone on the phone without using empathy or being rationale. I was able to calm him down, assert myself to keep him in check, and thinking rational. Moving him from an unhealthy 4 back to the 1. It helped. Interesting stuff to help others through their personalities.
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He already had mercy on your soul when He died on the Cross.
The world on the other hand, well it doesn't have very much mercy unfortunately. But just hang on.
Yeah... I've been struggling with that feeling. For me it's been since I was 12.5 years old. You get a lot of fear after that much time passes, until you realize it's fear.
This verse came to me today. 2 Timothy 1. Just hit me in the face like a jackhammer while I was working on something.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
[SUP]9 [/SUP]Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
So, yeah, no more fear. I suppose it means things can still suck, but at least there is no fear.
The world on the other hand, well it doesn't have very much mercy unfortunately. But just hang on.
Yeah... I've been struggling with that feeling. For me it's been since I was 12.5 years old. You get a lot of fear after that much time passes, until you realize it's fear.
This verse came to me today. 2 Timothy 1. Just hit me in the face like a jackhammer while I was working on something.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
[SUP]9 [/SUP]Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
So, yeah, no more fear. I suppose it means things can still suck, but at least there is no fear.
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Yeah, mizcris, you are 'the black,' who has an incredibly seeping, rich, wry-dry, easy way of putting things, that it can't be anything but a super-human giving from Him; just trying to make yuz laugh, milady, you, great agent of His light
itoreHis, just say YES! to life DAILY, waking up with Him in sweet 'devotions.' And, not just to any life but His life for you. It's not life either, friend, hate to break the news to you, it's LIFE! Abundantly more 'life' than anything you can can ever to come in your life your way, brother.
Who likes good gospel music ? When I was going to church back in 1992, I head this group come from inner-city Tacoma and do a hour long service and that choir sang unlike OUR choir, which is pretty brilliant in it's own right , with a music director who bi-yearly thinks up new plays for our Christmas at our church. And the performances start in early December, or, even, late November and continue until the 23rd, with around 20 performances in that about-a-month span of time.
But, WOW! YowZers!!! That inner-city 100 person choir that came to our church in 1998 just blew me away !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God is sooo good. I've tried too to find/listen to choirsl ike that since, and, surely, we've had gospel huge choirs at our church a few times since 1998, but nothing sounds quite like 'then.'
I think, it's kind of like when we go to church Sunday, we, sometimes, feel like God is speaking RIGHT to us about something going on in our life. And, guess what ! He is I think, paralleling that thought, God was just richly showing my life Him because this was inbetween the time I came back to Christ in a re-commitment to Him and also was baptized three years later, being 1997, and, 2000., respectively. God can and will BRING music to your EARS like you've never heard, and, maybe, even, never hear again. Who knows when I will hear a choir again that resonates like 1998. Only Him. Abundant LIFE! in Him Put your trust in Jesus Christ and just as Scripture says, old testament and new, LOVE (not just 'worship) LOVE the Lord God with all your heart, mind, soul, and, strength. That means with every f-i-b-e-r of our beings we are to praise the Lord, just praise the Lord, we are to, often, lift our hands to heaven and praise the Lord [video=youtube;tLjyQccHe_4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLjyQccHe_4[/video]
itoreHis, just say YES! to life DAILY, waking up with Him in sweet 'devotions.' And, not just to any life but His life for you. It's not life either, friend, hate to break the news to you, it's LIFE! Abundantly more 'life' than anything you can can ever to come in your life your way, brother.
Who likes good gospel music ? When I was going to church back in 1992, I head this group come from inner-city Tacoma and do a hour long service and that choir sang unlike OUR choir, which is pretty brilliant in it's own right , with a music director who bi-yearly thinks up new plays for our Christmas at our church. And the performances start in early December, or, even, late November and continue until the 23rd, with around 20 performances in that about-a-month span of time.
But, WOW! YowZers!!! That inner-city 100 person choir that came to our church in 1998 just blew me away !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God is sooo good. I've tried too to find/listen to choirsl ike that since, and, surely, we've had gospel huge choirs at our church a few times since 1998, but nothing sounds quite like 'then.'
I think, it's kind of like when we go to church Sunday, we, sometimes, feel like God is speaking RIGHT to us about something going on in our life. And, guess what ! He is
I think, paralleling that thought, God was just richly showing my life Him because this was inbetween the time I came back to Christ in a re-commitment to Him and also was baptized three years later, being 1997, and, 2000., respectively. God can and will BRING music to your EARS like you've never heard, and, maybe, even, never hear again. Who knows when I will hear a choir again that resonates like 1998. Only Him. Abundant LIFE! in Him Put your trust in Jesus Christ and just as Scripture says, old testament and new, LOVE (not just 'worship) LOVE the Lord God with all your heart, mind, soul, and, strength. That means with every f-i-b-e-r of our beings we are to praise the Lord, just praise the Lord, we are to, often, lift our hands to heaven and praise the Lord [video=youtube;tLjyQccHe_4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLjyQccHe_4[/video]
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His home was a old rusty dumpster deep down the bridge.
Leftovers were his breakfast, lunch and dinner for a day in a bin
His hair was long and greasy. Careless beard and dirty black sunglasses.
He knew nothing more than his little world in a crowded city
where no one cared at all about him
He had no friends nor projects to share with
and his appearance scared people away
He never knew why life treated him like that
or ever imagined we was thrown into an old box
when he was three years old one rainy night
His day was meant to be a very depressing one
when suddenly he sees a green book thrown on the floor
it was wet, eaten by rats and smelled badly
with interest he starts to open that damaged book
He never knew how to read or write correctly
Twenty years passed and a man walks into that bridge
teardrops fall from his cheeks while He grabs a beggar
He picked seven beggars up to put them into his truck
people stare at him completely shocked
while others shout angrily at him for stopping the traffic
but He doesn't care. He's not listening
What does a businessman do in the middle of the street
getting beggars into his car every two hours?
What is the reason of it?
A little kid that's walking in the sidewalk sees him
and he decides to help
The man smiles at him and gives him a hug
then that man gave him a green book
it was damaged with holes everywhere
then the man left the place
The boy got home and in his room
he opens the green book
It was a bible. A very old bible
there was a newspaper photo of a beggar
his face looked exactly like that man
then in the other page he saw a message
"This book saved my life
and I will not rest nor sleep
till I see every beggar sitting on God's table
where mercy and compassion
are always present
like it happened to me that day
with this green book"
Leftovers were his breakfast, lunch and dinner for a day in a bin
His hair was long and greasy. Careless beard and dirty black sunglasses.
He knew nothing more than his little world in a crowded city
where no one cared at all about him
He had no friends nor projects to share with
and his appearance scared people away
He never knew why life treated him like that
or ever imagined we was thrown into an old box
when he was three years old one rainy night
His day was meant to be a very depressing one
when suddenly he sees a green book thrown on the floor
it was wet, eaten by rats and smelled badly
with interest he starts to open that damaged book
He never knew how to read or write correctly
Twenty years passed and a man walks into that bridge
teardrops fall from his cheeks while He grabs a beggar
He picked seven beggars up to put them into his truck
people stare at him completely shocked
while others shout angrily at him for stopping the traffic
but He doesn't care. He's not listening
What does a businessman do in the middle of the street
getting beggars into his car every two hours?
What is the reason of it?
A little kid that's walking in the sidewalk sees him
and he decides to help
The man smiles at him and gives him a hug
then that man gave him a green book
it was damaged with holes everywhere
then the man left the place
The boy got home and in his room
he opens the green book
It was a bible. A very old bible
there was a newspaper photo of a beggar
his face looked exactly like that man
then in the other page he saw a message
"This book saved my life
and I will not rest nor sleep
till I see every beggar sitting on God's table
where mercy and compassion
are always present
like it happened to me that day
with this green book"