I love you. We love you. I hope your concession brings you, by the grace and healing of God, towards you loving you.
YOU ARE A GRATEFUL, LOVING AND GENTLE MAN. I KNOW THIS YOU, not all that well, but I do know this you.
The sermon this morning was about mercy and Mariana's Trench and what it’s like as a Christian to sin and live on the ocean floor and how God parts the waters and shines His light on us and gives us dry land to walk on that leads us home. Church was good today. I’ve come to really love the liturgy, so church is basically always good—I just gotta show up.
Wait and see, that the LORD is good, that the LORD is good. I think that’s a song from my childhood. Christian worship pop is weird.
One step at a time brother. You may be afraid of losing yourself: numbing yourself into nonexistence, becoming a vegetable, unalive. It will not be so. You are in God’s hands. So is this situation.
Thank you for sharing. Just had to do a similar thing myself. Real life Romans 7 ride. 20 years ago, my 89 yr old Uncle John (a real hard ass, who I was not really close with) motioned me to lean in and listen closely, at a family party, telling me, "Don't jump off a cliff for the breeze." I was like WTH? Yet that quote has stuck with me. Anger is my favorite breeze. Keep us posted. Love ya bro.
I'm enormously grateful for the few chances to meet you in person. Acknowledging your feelings—and the excellent comments already posted—your creativity, your love and willingness to share your life and journey have been a huge blessing to the TLC & other places. You might not yet see the impact from your perspective (yet), so you'll just have to trust us when we say this!
It always struck me as "they're just confused right now" when I was in recovery rooms, and people would say, "I'm thankful for my addiction—I wouldn't have met Jesus without it." I first started going because I had a friend who was anxious, so I thought I'd show up just to help him. Now nearly seven years deep, I now understand what they meant.
I know with absolute confidence from my own personal experience & the testimony of others that suffering gets transposed by God's power alone. And we can dislike seeing our friends experience suffering, too. I used to think I could explain it, but I cannot. I might approach it, I might point in it's direction, so I'm left to do the only things I CAN do: be present, shut up & listen, and pray, pray, pray. Thank you for your transparency & honesty!
I love you. We love you. I hope your concession brings you, by the grace and healing of God, towards you loving you.
YOU ARE A GRATEFUL, LOVING AND GENTLE MAN. I KNOW THIS YOU, not all that well, but I do know this you.
The sermon this morning was about mercy and Mariana's Trench and what it’s like as a Christian to sin and live on the ocean floor and how God parts the waters and shines His light on us and gives us dry land to walk on that leads us home. Church was good today. I’ve come to really love the liturgy, so church is basically always good—I just gotta show up.
Wait and see, that the LORD is good, that the LORD is good. I think that’s a song from my childhood. Christian worship pop is weird.
One step at a time brother. You may be afraid of losing yourself: numbing yourself into nonexistence, becoming a vegetable, unalive. It will not be so. You are in God’s hands. So is this situation.
No shame in trying the options at hand, my friend. Thanks for your writing
Thank you for sharing. Just had to do a similar thing myself. Real life Romans 7 ride. 20 years ago, my 89 yr old Uncle John (a real hard ass, who I was not really close with) motioned me to lean in and listen closely, at a family party, telling me, "Don't jump off a cliff for the breeze." I was like WTH? Yet that quote has stuck with me. Anger is my favorite breeze. Keep us posted. Love ya bro.
I'm enormously grateful for the few chances to meet you in person. Acknowledging your feelings—and the excellent comments already posted—your creativity, your love and willingness to share your life and journey have been a huge blessing to the TLC & other places. You might not yet see the impact from your perspective (yet), so you'll just have to trust us when we say this!
It always struck me as "they're just confused right now" when I was in recovery rooms, and people would say, "I'm thankful for my addiction—I wouldn't have met Jesus without it." I first started going because I had a friend who was anxious, so I thought I'd show up just to help him. Now nearly seven years deep, I now understand what they meant.
I know with absolute confidence from my own personal experience & the testimony of others that suffering gets transposed by God's power alone. And we can dislike seeing our friends experience suffering, too. I used to think I could explain it, but I cannot. I might approach it, I might point in it's direction, so I'm left to do the only things I CAN do: be present, shut up & listen, and pray, pray, pray. Thank you for your transparency & honesty!