Did you ever go through a period where things just seem so bad that it just can't get worse? I keep thinking, well at least what more can happen now? It can't possibly get worse. But it just does. On and on and on.
Laura says our family just has gremlins. I think that would be the more optimistic explanation.
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I will be praying really hard for you all. God does answer our prayers, but in his time not ours, so remember that. You have to hand over your burdens to him and just wait for the results. I know it is very hard to do, but trust me it does work. He is more powerful that we will ever be.
Mom said this to me last night, too, and I don't buy it for a second. I think people in this family have a tendecy to pay more attention to the bad things and ascribe more meaning to it than there really is. I don't wanna get all "The Secret" on you here, because that was a piece of crap in many different ways, but people do think in patterns. When mom said to me there was a black cloud over us, I said, "Not me", and she said, "Yes, you! With those cramps and fainting on sunday!" It struck me then how totally different our worldviews are. Mom sees it as proof that I'm as unlucky as anyone (not saying that you have as pessimistic a viewpoint as mom does, but you get the point), when I was basically thinking, "Hey awesome, I'm alive and didn't have to spend a jillion dollars on an ambulance, I had my boyfriend with me to help and a friend who cared enough to willingly help when we showed up at his door." I mean you can't always be positive about everything that comes along, but feeling cursed and unlucky doesn't do anything but hurt you in the long run. It takes a flexible mind and a willingness to face up to your own responsibility for your life. I don't want this to sound like a pep talk or like you shouldn't be feeling such and such; it's just that i've banged my head on the "unlucky" wall enough times that i've realized it's pointless, and hate to see other people doing it to themselves. I'm still wishing well for you though.
Claire, you do make a point in what you are saying here. Although, I would have to say something that you may not believe or want to believe or agree with me. There is a higher power over us and he has created this world, whether people want to believe this or not. Like I would say to a child when they first stop believing in a Santa Claus and that would be; do you believe in Jesus or God and if the person said yes, then I would say why? Because you never saw him, but you heard so much about this person in his times, just like you hear so much about Santa Claus in his times. So, how do you know he isn't real or not. Santa and Jesus Christ need a lot of peoples help to spread the Good News or making a child happy, so that is where we come in as believers.
I wouldn't be the person I am, if it weren't for my beliefs in Jesus Christ, God, and the Bible. Maybe someday you may agree with me and then again maybe not. But I still won't judge the person you are, it isn't my place.
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