((((Hornblower))))) -- Keep your sense of humor....

[Theodora]

...and continue to do what you can to "set boundaries!" I've read your thread about the message you heard from Joyce Meyers this a.m. (http://www.christianrecovery.com/vb/...ead.php?t=6066) and...with all due respect to her intentions...I'd really suggest that you not worry about how to apply her "message" to your present situation. I DON'T think that you're being "too sensitive" about anything NOR do I think that "God" requires us to "cope" with all that life hands us with a smile on our faces and a "praise Jesus" on our lips! Now...that was close to be "blaphemous, " I suppose...and for that, I'm sorry. BUT....

BUT.....well....I've known what it is like to have such "positive thinking" sort of backfire in my personal life. (For something of my reflections on this, if you're interested, see my post "Thurs. Dec. 14, 2006 -- "This is the day which the Lord has made..." http://www.christianrecovery.com/vb/...ead.php?t=5994

(This was one of my Grandmother's favorite Bible verses. I had difficulties with it. My favorites tend more to come out of the Psalms which allow more "variety" in one's feelings etc.)

PACE yourself. You DON'T have to clean up that house all at once...even with Christmas coming!...and you certainly don't need to humor your husband by laughing at tasteless jokes.

Love and prayers--

Theodora

[hornblower]

dear Theo ty so much for the previous posting of prayers and compassions for all of us here. I too stay in the psalms for my building up. Ill never forget that for me these words of poetry or songs are what I have often felt that Jesus wanted me to return to and realise the humanity of us all, including Himself. Some of His last words were from this psalm 'Father why have You forsaken me?'
Could it be that He does not condemn us after all? Could that be because He Himself has suffered all of our feelings and He knows Himself how we feel?
I certainly hope so.
I for one think of this time of the year as an awareness of an innocent little baby so poor that he had no place to be born. How can a person born in such a situation feel anythng but compassion for others knowing Himself the real living evidence every possible situation.
I see us as suffering the rest of it with Him.
Anyway I wil try to think on these things during this time instead if my own small trial. I know joyce Meyer means well it just sometimes feels like salt on a wound.
All is well.....I am well and warm and have a roof over my head, a nice bed to sleep in, thats probably a lot more than Mary had isnt it?