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"Cast all your cares on Him, for He cares for you."
"Come to Me (Jesus), all ye who are heavy laden and burdened, and, I will give you rest."
Started thinking of one of those songs I recorded back in 1987 when I stayed in my room all summer after my freshman year of college and'd found out my cat died immediately after I got home.
It's Whitesnake, but it's always different with way I sing these songs of top 40 pop culture.
"Here I go again, on my own" becomes "Here I go again with my Lord." And, you can pretty much think of any song out there that speaks of human love or me, me, me, I, I, I doing things and I ALWAYS put Him in the place, even with some Christian songs that can, potentially, give Christ second fiddle to human love, like, "You're all I need." I don't care what anyone says and IF I was with a girlfriend I would NEVER think she was ALL I needed. ONLY Christ is ALL I need
SHE would simply be a part of His needs for me to serve Him perfect, to give Him all the glory.
Thank God for that ! And, that, and, that, and, everything 'that.' In EVERYTHING, give thanks to God. So, IF you are giving thanks to someone else, and, sure, courtesty 'please' and 'thank-you' comments are ways we show Love to others. But, yeah, THAT is what's on my mind right now, well, that, and, playing interntet backgammon The Lord leads
God bless your Sundays , and, littleChristone, glad you got through the test, don't be so hard on yourself, the Lord, indeed, leads, I'm certain, you did your very best studying beforehand that you knew how to do and, in His mind, that is just PERFECT
I pray your Sunday is great, littleChristone, and, for ALL of you, I pray the same, c.c. dudegents, and, miladies.
Philippians 1:
"I thank my God every time I remember you. 4In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy 5because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, 6being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."
"Come to Me (Jesus), all ye who are heavy laden and burdened, and, I will give you rest."
Started thinking of one of those songs I recorded back in 1987 when I stayed in my room all summer after my freshman year of college and'd found out my cat died immediately after I got home.
It's Whitesnake, but it's always different with way I sing these songs of top 40 pop culture.
"Here I go again, on my own" becomes "Here I go again with my Lord." And, you can pretty much think of any song out there that speaks of human love or me, me, me, I, I, I doing things and I ALWAYS put Him in the place, even with some Christian songs that can, potentially, give Christ second fiddle to human love, like, "You're all I need." I don't care what anyone says and IF I was with a girlfriend I would NEVER think she was ALL I needed. ONLY Christ is ALL I need
SHE would simply be a part of His needs for me to serve Him perfect, to give Him all the glory. Thank God for that ! And, that, and, that, and, everything 'that.'
In EVERYTHING, give thanks to God. So, IF you are giving thanks to someone else, and, sure, courtesty 'please' and 'thank-you' comments are ways we show Love to others. But, yeah, THAT is what's on my mind right now, well, that, and, playing interntet backgammon The Lord leadsGod bless your Sundays , and, littleChristone, glad you got through the test, don't be so hard on yourself, the Lord, indeed, leads, I'm certain, you did your very best studying beforehand that you knew how to do and, in His mind, that is just PERFECT
I pray your Sunday is great, littleChristone, and, for ALL of you, I pray the same, c.c. dudegents, and, miladies.
Philippians 1:
"I thank my God every time I remember you. 4In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy 5because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, 6being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."
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Friends are important. The Lord leads, Pray He leads you to good friends, who are like you, who like you, of course, is important, too. Our studies, our work, our life, in general is OK with being completely friendless, sometimes, but, that's when the Lord is leading that 'season' of our life.
Especially young people. YOU need friends ! Support folk, who can be there for you, and, you DON'T need friends who are going to want you a certain way. YOU want friend(s) who are accepting YOU for who you are and who advance your walk with Christ. THAT is most important, someone who strengthens your walk with Him.
Your schooling, test-taking, work-doing, and, just plain, life-living, is NOT going to be the same IF you are seeing God asking you to OPEN up to folk and you are NOT . The older we are, singles, too, we can get complacent, in our own world, it's important that we do not do that UNLESS that is something you see from God showing you is that season in your life. And, YOU will know, sometimes, God just wants us to be quiet, be in solitude a lot (never 'all,' I don't think ) in our life, and, just be still and know that He is God, He is lord over our life and He is Lord.
Especially young people. YOU need friends ! Support folk, who can be there for you, and, you DON'T need friends who are going to want you a certain way. YOU want friend(s) who are accepting YOU for who you are and who advance your walk with Christ. THAT is most important, someone who strengthens your walk with Him.
Your schooling, test-taking, work-doing, and, just plain, life-living, is NOT going to be the same IF you are seeing God asking you to OPEN up to folk and you are NOT . The older we are, singles, too, we can get complacent, in our own world, it's important that we do not do that UNLESS that is something you see from God showing you is that season in your life. And, YOU will know, sometimes, God just wants us to be quiet, be in solitude a lot (never 'all,' I don't think ) in our life, and, just be still and know that He is God, He is lord over our life and He is Lord.
Went on a little road trip to take my 16 y.o. daughter to an arts college fair in San Francisco today. Parallel parking in Nob Hill with a stick shift was not fun, but I managed okay. My daughter broke away from me to go to the booths by herself, so I took the time to gather some info about graduate school.
Afterwards, we did some pizza in Sausolito, right by the harbor. Overall, a nice day, but I am tired and cranky from driving a lot...
then I come on CC and catch up on a thread which got me all ticked off- - and know that if I respond to it I will get banned.
Afterwards, we did some pizza in Sausolito, right by the harbor. Overall, a nice day, but I am tired and cranky from driving a lot...
then I come on CC and catch up on a thread which got me all ticked off- - and know that if I respond to it I will get banned.
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I am quite certain that my parents, both my brothers and I are all introverts. Varying degrees of course. Probably my mom and I are the most 'extroverted' introverts. That's an interesting family dynamic I think. Everyone is content with alone time or spending the majority of the time at home interacting with each other.
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Yep. Largely because i don't talk to the majority of my family for just that reason. People who are important to me are people who earn it and show themselves worth my time. That we have a pair of matching relatives that had sex and popped out a kid somewhere along the line is not a qualification for wanting that person in my life.
The more we study God's Word, the bolder we get. I have found that if I'm going to be exposed to something new, I'm empowered by learning more about it before I actually need to confront the situation. Knowledge is power, right?
We will never be fully alive if we are going to live life kicking and screaming in resistance the whole way. To live is to experience, to experience is to live. To conceptualize that one can experience a journey without leaving the couch is just not sensible thinking. We all have the power to decide HOW we are going to think our way thru life. Don't be afraid to take control of your own journey by starting with who you want to join you. Jesus said to choose our associations wisely. He said to encourage and up build one another. Anyone not doing that is violating that and God would rather us stay close to him and put distance between us and people who threaten our emotional well being.
I used to be somewhat like you, now I'm 50. I realize the only one who's going to feel the pain or victory of my journey is me. I'm writing the story. Why should I let other people detour what I want from it. No body deserves anything from you. But give out of love. Soul suckers be gone. (My own son is one and I've crossed paths with too many) If they don't care what God expects from them. Then the most important relationship for you to protect and nurture is with the Heavenly Father and his Son. That's ALL you are responsible for. Guilt will cause you to choose against yourself.
We will never be fully alive if we are going to live life kicking and screaming in resistance the whole way. To live is to experience, to experience is to live. To conceptualize that one can experience a journey without leaving the couch is just not sensible thinking. We all have the power to decide HOW we are going to think our way thru life. Don't be afraid to take control of your own journey by starting with who you want to join you. Jesus said to choose our associations wisely. He said to encourage and up build one another. Anyone not doing that is violating that and God would rather us stay close to him and put distance between us and people who threaten our emotional well being.
I used to be somewhat like you, now I'm 50. I realize the only one who's going to feel the pain or victory of my journey is me. I'm writing the story. Why should I let other people detour what I want from it. No body deserves anything from you. But give out of love. Soul suckers be gone. (My own son is one and I've crossed paths with too many) If they don't care what God expects from them. Then the most important relationship for you to protect and nurture is with the Heavenly Father and his Son. That's ALL you are responsible for. Guilt will cause you to choose against yourself.
Fluffy the cat bolted out the door today, he did come back but he isn't supposed to go outside. He tries to open the door by himself and he has squeezed through a tiny basement window to get out before. The last time he got out I found him hiding in my neighbors Halloween decorations. His face was sticking out between two plastic pumpkins, that was pretty funny.