Voyager

[jane]

Are you still lurking around here at all>?

jane

[Willow]

Hi Jane... just peeking at you :)
Amy

[Elisabeth]

His last post was 2/25, at which time he said he was "taking a break" from the forum. :( Hope he comes back!

[jane]

HEllo Willow-

thanks for answering Elisabeth....

jane

[hoipoloi]

I also wonder what has happened to Voyager.

Like so many of you loving friends here, he has been very helpful in my situation and for that much appreciation.

I'm afraid that I'm very much a lurker than anything else, but I do keep reading the forum and I have missed Voyager.

:o

[butterfly]

I miss Voyager also hope he is doing will with his time out.

I miss his post there was always something in them that helped me.
butterfly

[Voyager]

Are you still lurking around here at all?

I've popped in once or twice in the past few months. I miss my close friends here. I want you all to know that I am doing well, and I appreciate your friendships very much.

When I stopped posting on this forum (and others) several months ago, I felt the need to do so because I was simply spending too much time on forums. Since then, I haven't spent more than 10 minutes on a forum. I've actually been a little fearful of returning to any forum again, because I don't want to get back into wasting a lot of time on them again. Not that my time here was wasted in any way... I don't mean that at all... I was just spending too much time on forums like this one and not getting enough work done.

Since the last time I was here I have made a lot of life changes. I started working out every day and have lost about 25 pounds. My health was starting to suffer from sitting on the computer all day long (my business is Internet marketing). It was very tempting to just login to forums and chat instead of getting my work done, since I was always online for my business anyway. I had to pull myself away from the computer and get control of my health.

As many of you know, I have always struggled with an addictive personality. I've been free from alcohol and drugs for almost a year now. I am probably a little anxious about falling back into addictions again, so I try to watch what I invest myself into, because I have a tendency to invest myself 200% into things that I find interesting. That includes Internet forums. I believe I can throttle the things in my life much better now, but I still want to make sure that I am aware of my weaknesses and don't take my freedom from addictions for granted.

I could keep on posting for hours, but I will leave it at that for now. I just wanted you all to know how much I love and appreciate you. You are like my family. I'll stop back in soon.

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[Satscout]

It is SO good to hear from you! Especially good to hear that you have been able to sustain positive changes. I am most curious to hear how your efforts to create/sustain community worked out. Were you able to get something going?

I just wanted you all to know how much I love and appreciate you. You are like my family. I'll stop back in soon.

:cool:

And the nice thing about virtual family is we can sit here with welcoming arms and celebrate with you. :D :cool:

[jane]

Voyager-
glad to hear from you.......glad to hear the good reports.

stop in once in a while if it is ok to do so...........


just stopping online for a brief moment......will write more later.

(hugs) good to hear from you.

jane

[Hope 98]

Just want to add my own 2 cents and say that I'm glad you caught us up Voyager!

Understand what you're saying about spending too much time online with forums. Gotta agree that taking care of yourself is important.

Hope things keep going well.

[Voyager]

Thanks for all the kind words from everyone. I certainly hope I didn't sound like I was trying to project my decision to take a break from forums onto anyone else. I was continually on this forum from 1999 to early 2007, and never took a break for more than a few weeks from it. This forum has been an integral part of my recovery from Spiritual Abuse. This was the first time I felt strong enough to break away on my own for a few months.

I don't think being on this forum is a bad or unhealthy thing for anyone. On the contrary, being a part of this forum has been very healthy for me. It's just that I started becoming a forum junkie on multiple forums. So for me it was time for a break.

Happy Memorial Day!

:cool:

[overcomer]

voyager, i'm right there with you. actually i looked at the clock on my pc before i came into the forum this morning and allotted myself about ten/fifteen minutes, because i've got alot to do today around the house and for my family, etc. (gotta figure out supper and get laundry done. we went upstate NY this past week visiting and things got a little backed up, especially in my son's mountain of laundry dept. :)
but the Lord has spoke to me before in this way, maybe similar as with you.
i was thankful for place to cry out for help or just cry out to speak, but as healing comes from the Lord, i think He wants us being active with what He's given us so as not to get involved with this or that or the other, been there done that.
i really have to speak of the way God has helped me, and act in obedience in praise and normal, healthy activity of what's around me. neat about your health changes!!!!!!!!!!!! amen!!!!!!!!!! (i need to get out there and walk today, God is convicting me through what you said!)
and I need to praise Him for His help, and I want to - because things have just been GOOD, He is Good, and He is breaking through walls to get to me, to deliver me. sometimes i have to wipe my eyes at the things He keeps speaking to show me He's with me, and not just with me! He's with us!
He's Emmanuel, and just knowing that an all-powerful, great God is in control is so helpful even on the days that i get attacked again, like on Sunday afternoon satan tried to steal, kill and destroy again. but God is merciful, kind, true, and really, really good. we can't be that kind of good, but He is! so thankful for Jesus! let's go where His joy is, follow His peace.
blessings on your week!
time's up, gotta go! :)