tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276556180182068972.post1774890466710705171..comments2023-06-29T06:32:48.551-07:00Comments on The Journey of the Curious Servant: Just a PostCurious Servanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564580536911743558noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276556180182068972.post-66203049347022718912007-12-05T20:26:00.000-08:002007-12-05T20:26:00.000-08:00You know, I was reading this and i thought...tooth...You know, I was reading this and i thought...<BR/><BR/>toothache.<BR/><BR/>Odd, I know, but hear me out. You know how it starts twinging, then it swells, then it just hurts all the damn time, and eventually the pain gets so you can't concentrate on anything else, and you sit there with ice packs, swallowing ibuprofen like candy, and all you can say is "ow", very softly, a million times, and it doesn't help?<BR/><BR/>well, ow, for you, friend. <BR/><BR/>in the desert of the real, i wince in sympathy.<BR/><BR/>ow.ow.ow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276556180182068972.post-79750420601201132122007-12-05T20:13:00.000-08:002007-12-05T20:13:00.000-08:00PS I agree what Ame and the other friends said. Yo...PS I agree what Ame and the other friends said. You are not a wimp and neither are you full of shit.You are a brave strong dertermined child of God. <BR/><BR/>When God 's children are unfaithful to Him, including me, He feels the same way. Jesus came to his own and His own rejected Him.Amritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04887884977787790642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276556180182068972.post-62071754509521158202007-12-05T20:00:00.000-08:002007-12-05T20:00:00.000-08:00What you are feeling is natural. Healing hurts and...What you are feeling is natural. Healing hurts and making up for past errors is painful and hard work i know from experience. Satan hounded me for months.<BR/><BR/>Glad B is going to AA. Could she see a Christian counsellor.<BR/><BR/>The insaurance and kids issues are troublesome, hope they get sorted out.<BR/><BR/>D was so sweet.Kids are very perceptive.<BR/><BR/>Divorce is not a pleasant thing, and should never be. Maybe B will hurt enough to realize this want to make amends in her life and the lives of whom she affects.Amritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04887884977787790642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276556180182068972.post-53115165162800717262007-12-05T08:41:00.000-08:002007-12-05T08:41:00.000-08:00Today is another counseling session.These are ofte...Today is another counseling session.<BR/><BR/>These are often pretty rough.Curious Servanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11564580536911743558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276556180182068972.post-53707196511986496352007-12-05T06:36:00.000-08:002007-12-05T06:36:00.000-08:00I am such a wimp to want her.or.......you are just...I am such a wimp to want her.<BR/><BR/><BR/>or.......you are just stronger than alot of us.....in our weakness He gets stronger right....prayingGigihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05805941956462456865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276556180182068972.post-70875019148622661052007-12-05T04:33:00.000-08:002007-12-05T04:33:00.000-08:00The other day, my daughter and I were shoppig in t...The other day, my daughter and I were shoppig in the supermarket and I put this enormous pack of toilet tissue in our trolley....because it was a good money saver for my one parent family. <BR/><BR/>My daughter was so embarrassed that the trolley was full of loo roll...she turned to me and said 'Mum, why do we need to much loo roll. It's embarrassing!'<BR/><BR/>To which I, throughly defeated by our financial predicament replied,<BR/><BR/>"Because I'm full of shit, OKAY!?!"<BR/><BR/>Poor kid!Well, she is 16, she's used to me by now I suppose.<BR/><BR/>It was just one of <I>those</I> day's, y'know?<BR/><BR/>You, on the other hand, are not full of shit.ukokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11676940507604813998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276556180182068972.post-63926045934101413852007-12-04T21:49:00.000-08:002007-12-04T21:49:00.000-08:00You've been bruised and wounded by her transgressi...You've been bruised and wounded by her transgressions ... are being punished and wounded in an effort to bring her peace and healing. <BR/><BR/>Sounds like some One else I know. (Is 53:5)<BR/><BR/>That does not make you weak any more than it makes Jesus weak. It does not make you a wimp any more than it makes God a wimp to crave for us to all love him, even the worst of the worst.<BR/><BR/>"I want her happy, healthy. Even if that means she leaves me when she gets on her feet.<BR/><BR/>You know ... as I've been reading thru the OT about the kings ... I'm so struck by the kings who honored God and then fell away from Him at the very ends of their lives. One of the many things that strikes me about all that ... is that God honors their faithfulness to Him when they are faithful ... and He KNOWS, because He is God, that they will turn from Him someday ... yet He STILL chose to honor their faithfulness over and over and over. <BR/><BR/>Hummm . . .<BR/><BR/>You are not making her quit her job. You are standing by firm boundaries and expecting her to honor them. And, it sucks when, in doing so, we must enforce the consequences of the choices of an adult. It's easy to do that for a child; that's normal. It just sucks to have to do that for an adult, especially your spouse. I struggled with that for a very long time in counseling ... VERY hard for me.<BR/><BR/>It's not you she's tired of ... it's just life ... and herself.<BR/><BR/>There is a season for everything under the sun ... and, I personally believe, there is a season to step back from church for awhile. Sometimes, church is not a place of healing.Amehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358641966141610513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276556180182068972.post-77477935841849809332007-12-04T20:21:00.000-08:002007-12-04T20:21:00.000-08:00Okay ... well ... for starters ... NORMAL is what ...Okay ... well ... for starters ... NORMAL is what you are!!!!!!! <BR/><BR/>Next ... comparing your "bad" with someone else's "bad" is the ONE place where you should NEVER go ... we don't choose our hell ... we just live with the hell we're given. (Just on a side note, because I'm kinda on a *tacky* roll today anyway ... can you imagine us walking into the required store called "Choose Your Hell?" And we walk in, and there are all these "hells" to choose ... and we have to choose one ... but we don't get to see what's behind all the doors till after we own it.) Okay ... anyway ... a widow loosing her cat to a flying car on the street is in as much pain as you, my friend. Don't compare. It will sink you everytime.<BR/><BR/>For the rest ... will have to wait ... need to put my Oldest to bed ;).Amehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358641966141610513noreply@blogger.com