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Indescribeable 67F
5215 posts
4/28/2008 11:21 pm
Reminising about the past...

All through our lives we experience changes. Our emotions are up and down and we feel good some days and bad on others. We experience happiness and unfortunately great sadness at various times of our lifetime. That is why it is so important to not be led by how you feel at any given moment or to make decisions based on your emotions.

One thing that I sadly regret doing is selling my Condo in Maui. As my thoughts go back and looking at the surrounding circumstances I know that this was an emotional decision. During this time period I had rented it out to an unknown couple for one week while I left the island for the holidays and they flooded the unit causing the ceiling below my unit to start collapsing. Just the stress of the experience caused me to say I have had enough and I MUST SELL NOW to take care of this ladies ceiling and water dripping all over her lovely belongings. I sat back and thought after the fact, that I could have resolved this for about $1,500. yet I did not and the result was the loss of my dreams. Can anyone relate?

I guess the moral of this story is to not make major decisions while under stress.

Hebrews 13:8 says, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." It is better to be led by Christ than by our constantly shifting and changing feelings.

Women especially need to heed this warning because we are more emotional than men and feelings are very important to us. We need to make sure we're planted in God's house and in His Word. Remember who you are in Christ instead of giving into insecurities and fear by making life-altering decisions without trusting God to give direction and guidance.

Trust the God who "does not change like shifting shadows," as it says in James 1:17. Make your emotions the caboose, not the engine.
This is my desire for my life which I will be trying to make really real next year.

Letting God be the engine and me the caboose.

Then another thing happened tonight by chance. I received an email from some stranger and noticed that he looked much like my first husband in many ways. I then realized than I was at the age of 19 and my is 17 1/2. I was married for 5 years. I got this crazy idea to google his name and low and behold I found a picture and also a resume and I was able to remember the exact events that transpired some 30 years ago. Sorta creepy, I know...but it happened.

So much time has passed. He has two from his second marriage, I have been told. I have not spoken to him in years. It's interesting how the mind wanders at times.

Considering my sons age and what I feel his maturity level is and how I felt at that same general age, it makes me have great understanding as to what road is ahead of him although he thinks I have no clue.

I only hope that he gets glimpses of the lessons that I have learned, as I got really no instruction myself... sigh... I shall pray.

Care to share similar experiences and create healing among us?


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Sweethoney2007 65F
6565 posts
4/29/2008 8:16 am

As long as we are in this body of sin we will need to be constantly relying on the Lord...I do not trust my flesh as far as I can thropw it... I have to call on Jesus and then all things are possible!

Nicole C. Mullen: Call On Jesus

I'm so very ordinary
Nothing special on my own
I have never walked on water
I have never calmed a storm
Sometimes I'm hiding away from the madness around me
Like a child who's afraid of the dark
But when I call on Jesus
All things are possible
I can mount on wings like eagles and soar
When I call on Jesus
Mountains are gonna fall
'Cause He'll move heaven and earth
to come rescue me when I call

Weary brother
Broken daughter
Widowed, widowed lover
You're not alone
If you're tired and scared of the madness around you
If you can't find the strength to carry on
When you call on Jesus
All things are possible
You can mount on wings like eagles and soar
When you call on Jesus
Mountains are 'gonna fall

'Cause He'll move heaven and earth
to come and rescue you when you call
Call him in the mornin'
In the afternoon time
Late in the evenin'
He'll be there
When your heart is broken
And you feel discouraged
You can just remember that He said
He'll be there

When I call on Jesus
All things are possible
I can mount on wings like eagles and soar
When I call on Jesus
Mountains are gonna fall
'Cause He'll move heaven and earth
to come rescue me when I call


Isaiah 42:8 " I am the Lord; that is my name! And My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images."


looking4_mywings 62F
318 posts
5/6/2008 5:58 pm

Well said...Amen...GBU!!! Angel

God is God, Good And Great.

I have no problem with you, believing what you believe...Just don't have one with me if I don't see it your way....


Speaking Volumes
Blessings in The Now
TWENTYONE THINGS


Indescribeable 67F
8057 posts
5/29/2008 7:22 pm

Thanks for you well thought out comments, I do appreciate them.

Sheri

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