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I was discussing my car situation with a co-worker who is a Christian and a bit charismatic. Told me that anything could happen, just have faith. I told him that he needs to be realistic, a car won't come out of no where and drop into my lap. I will have to save money and wait. I'll have take the bus for awhile. He thinks that I just need to believe. What a funny concept.
 
persNickety said:
I was discussing my car situation with a co-worker who is a Christian and a bit charismatic. Told me that anything could happen, just have faith. I told him that he needs to be realistic, a car won't come out of no where and drop into my lap. I will have to save money and wait. I'll have take the bus for awhile. He thinks that I just need to believe. What a funny concept.
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You never know...I'd say watch out for cars falling out of the sky and stuff...

Really though, having faith is super important, yeah, but focusing that faith on having a car just appear like that...meh, I just think that sounds more like wishing for things than having faith God will provide.

...but I totally believe He will...just not necessarily immediately, and probably not in a "Wow, this car just showed up in my drive-way and had a tag attached to it with my name on it" kind of way.

Here's hoping and praying you can get another car soon, though!
 
I was typing in Stillwater's thread about the influence of social media and now I'm crying. Why? Because I was talking about my Great Uncle who's gone, his wife my beloved great Aunt Susie is also gone. Earlier on here I was talking about my Grandparents who are all gone and my Dad is gone too.

I'm 43 and will be 44 next month. I don't want to be 44, I don't want to be dead but I don't want to get older. I want my kids to stay young and I want to stay middle aged. I know it's so unrealistic but i've had these thoughts in my head lately. I'm not going through a mid life crisis, I'm going through a sad life crisis. I usually take life one day at a time, but I've been over thinking everything lately.

God help me snap out of it and realize life is what it is.
 
MissCris said:
I made a really poor, snap decision this morning to share some of my Mtn Dew with my 2 year old son. I mean, he doesn't get to drink soda like, ever...and I was trying to do something else, and he was just losing his little kid mind about who knows what...so I gave him a little of it.

And then at nap time, he wouldn't sleep. And wouldn't sleep. And wouldn't sleep.

I couldn't figure it out. I got so frustrated...

It didn't even occur to me until just now...DUH Cristen! No wonder he wouldn't sleep!

My friend even warned me about it. Do I listen? Ever? Nope.

'Scuse me while I go simultaneously beat my head against the wall and crack up laughing at how dumb I can be....
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I've never had Mountain Dew, I had Mellow Yellow once when I was like 12 or something, I threw up. Someone told me that Mellow Yellow tastes like Mt. Dew and I can't handle that.
 
Fenner said:
God help me snap out of it and realize life is what it is.
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***HUGS***

Now snap out of it! You want grandkids don't you? You want to see your children leading successful lives. You want to experience your golden years! And when these temporary earthly things are over, we have an eternity to enjoy in the very presence of our Lord where we will never grow old or experience the sad passage of time. Yay for eternal life!

*more hugs*

:)
 
Fenner said:
I was typing in Stillwater's thread about the influence of social media and now I'm crying. Why? Because I was talking about my Great Uncle who's gone, his wife my beloved great Aunt Susie is also gone. Earlier on here I was talking about my Grandparents who are all gone and my Dad is gone too.

I'm 43 and will be 44 next month. I don't want to be 44, I don't want to be dead but I don't want to get older. I want my kids to stay young and I want to stay middle aged. I know it's so unrealistic but i've had these thoughts in my head lately. I'm not going through a mid life crisis, I'm going through a sad life crisis. I usually take life one day at a time, but I've been over thinking everything lately.

God help me snap out of it and realize life is what it is.
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(((hugssssssssssss Jen))) I can totally relate @ times. I have no living blood relatives left alive (save maybe a few distant cousins whom I haven't seen since I was like 5 yrs old. I'm no longer married & have no children. There's nothing wrong in feeling sad. Jesus was a man of many sorrows & He took all the pain of our loss upon Himself @ the cross.
I know it sounds lame & cliche'...but it's ok to admit that you miss them,and kinda hate the idea of getting older & your children growing up. Life is life,indeed...but at least we as Christians have Jesus & one another.
You'll get though this...:)
Just think. In a few days you'll be laughing at how ridiculous iTORE's insane posts in streams are or someone will resurrect yer' bad poetry thread you started,and you'll forget all about that pesky influence of social media thread in no time. lol
 
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Fenner said:
I was typing in Stillwater's thread about the influence of social media and now I'm crying. Why? Because I was talking about my Great Uncle who's gone, his wife my beloved great Aunt Susie is also gone. Earlier on here I was talking about my Grandparents who are all gone and my Dad is gone too.

I'm 43 and will be 44 next month. I don't want to be 44, I don't want to be dead but I don't want to get older. I want my kids to stay young and I want to stay middle aged. I know it's so unrealistic but i've had these thoughts in my head lately. I'm not going through a mid life crisis, I'm going through a sad life crisis. I usually take life one day at a time, but I've been over thinking everything lately.

God help me snap out of it and realize life is what it is.
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This is not metal. It's actually quite pleasant.

Be glad I'm communicating through song and not interpretive dance. Also, be glad I'm not doing the singing.


[video=youtube;kj5EWAsyCjc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj5EWAsyCjc[/video]


But yeah. We wonder if there is more to life sometimes. That answer is that there is Christ.

Age is a good thing, if we have fond memories to look back at, so you're doing pretty well. You're married, you have children, and you have Christ. Until that day when every tear is dried, hold on to what you do have.

Also, think about how many Dirty Harry jokes you get to make this year!
 
MissCris said:
You never know...I'd say watch out for cars falling out of the sky and stuff...

Really though, having faith is super important, yeah, but focusing that faith on having a car just appear like that...meh, I just think that sounds more like wishing for things than having faith God will provide.

...but I totally believe He will...just not necessarily immediately, and probably not in a "Wow, this car just showed up in my drive-way and had a tag attached to it with my name on it" kind of way.

Here's hoping and praying you can get another car soon, though!
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YES! Yes, thank you MissCris, you have helped nail down a concept that doesn't quite gel in my head, as unthinkable as that might sound to you. Anyway, I was watching this documentary on TLC........ok it was the Beverly Hillbillies......and anyway Granny told that banker lady who had a bad cold at the time that she could cure her cold. The banker lady was all amazed and said "You have a cure for the common cold? This is a major scientific find!". Granny says "I've had it for years - you just put this special poultice on your chest and within about 5 days, the cold is gone!" You might ask how what you said ties together with all this and it's really quite elementary....it doesn't. But it shares a common thread. The miracle this "charismatic" Persnickity knows is waiting for a supernatural miracle of a car and you are explaining how the miracle can happen but in a physically applicable way. Either way, God answers our prayer and a miracle is performed but what we perceive as natural event is really the miracle! It wasn't the poultice - it was the miracle of our bodies immune system healing the cold which we don't perceive as miraculous or supernatural but rather a natural event - which to the banker lady was a disappointment! She was thinking that the poultice was some kind of super new cure all and completely overlooks the miracle of our body's immunity - which has been with her all along! This - this is the vanity Ecclesiastes reminds me of. The miracles are happening all! So we don't praise our God when this fall turned to winter and then to spring because we know that the polar earth is tilted on it's axis in relation to the sun and the north hemisphere is tilted towards the sun in it's summer solstice and the south hemisphere is in it's winter and so we don't thank God for our season of growth and our season of fallow ONLY because we understand the way it works and thus, it becomes something less than a miracle? It's vanity! All of it is vanity!

Thanks for putting that together for me MissCris and Persnickity!
 
9GaG.

Young lady, what are you doing there? There are grown men there.

Shoo, shoo!
 
kenthomas27 said:
YES! Yes, thank you MissCris, you have helped nail down a concept that doesn't quite gel in my head, as unthinkable as that might sound to you. Anyway, I was watching this documentary on TLC........ok it was the Beverly Hillbillies......and anyway Granny told that banker lady who had a bad cold at the time that she could cure her cold. The banker lady was all amazed and said "You have a cure for the common cold? This is a major scientific find!". Granny says "I've had it for years - you just put this special poultice on your chest and within about 5 days, the cold is gone!" You might ask how what you said ties together with all this and it's really quite elementary....it doesn't. But it shares a common thread. The miracle this "charismatic" Persnickity knows is waiting for a supernatural miracle of a car and you are explaining how the miracle can happen but in a physically applicable way. Either way, God answers our prayer and a miracle is performed but what we perceive as natural event is really the miracle! It wasn't the poultice - it was the miracle of our bodies immune system healing the cold which we don't perceive as miraculous or supernatural but rather a natural event - which to the banker lady was a disappointment! She was thinking that the poultice was some kind of super new cure all and completely overlooks the miracle of our body's immunity - which has been with her all along! This - this is the vanity Ecclesiastes reminds me of. The miracles are happening all! So we don't praise our God when this fall turned to winter and then to spring because we know that the polar earth is tilted on it's axis in relation to the sun and the north hemisphere is tilted towards the sun in it's summer solstice and the south hemisphere is in it's winter and so we don't thank God for our season of growth and our season of fallow ONLY because we understand the way it works and thus, it becomes something less than a miracle? It's vanity! All of it is vanity!

Thanks for putting that together for me MissCris and Persnickity!
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Ken, as much as I love to read your posts and not be able to stop laughing about most of them...
It's always nice to read something like this, see the serious side...
You're one of the most insightful people on here.
Even if you are a skunk (or duck, or rabbit...)
:)
 
MissCris said:
Ken, as much as I love to read your posts and not be able to stop laughing about most of them...
It's always nice to read something like this, see the serious side...
You're one of the most insightful people on here.
Even if you are a skunk (or duck, or rabbit...)
:)
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Thank you for this. You were the only one that "liked' it so I thought maybe you were just trying to....you know....humor me.
 
Watching Parks and Rec for the first time in like forever. I hereby adopt the pseudonym "Enrique Shockwave" as my own, now.
 
Wow...ummm...I just wrote something and...I didn't realize it till I was typing the last words that I was,ummm...ok...*puts on manly voice* I guess kinda crying. Not like a sad sort of..but just..I was realizing this stuff I was writing about was like moving.
LOL I never write things that make me weepy...Am I crazy? Has anyone else ever done this? maybe it was like all therapeutic & junk. Yep...maybe I just need to see a shrink or something.LOL yeah..ok...not sure why I felt the need to share this with the interwebs...so I am like waiting for Praus or someone to make a meme to mock me or something. *braces self* lol
 
iTOREtheSKY said:
Wow...ummm...I just wrote something and...I didn't realize it till I was typing the last words that I was,ummm...ok...*puts on manly voice* I guess kinda crying. Not like a sad sort of..but just..I was realizing this stuff I was writing about was like moving.
LOL I never write things that make me weepy...Am I crazy? Has anyone else ever done this? maybe it was like all therapeutic & junk. Yep...maybe I just need to see a shrink or something.LOL yeah..ok...not sure why I felt the need to share this with the interwebs...so I am like waiting for Praus or someone to make a meme to mock me or something. *braces self* lol
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I've done that a few times before, while writing...I get kinda lost in expressing whatever it is, and before I know it I'm in tears because the emotion is just that strong.

Nothing wrong with it. Nothing "un-manly" about it.
 
*whew* ok...lolz so I'm not all crazy then? (wait...don't you dare answer that!!!) :p

But srsly...ty. :o
 
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