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RE: What can you thank God for today? - 4/5/2009 3:06:27 PM
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mutinywxgirl
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I will ditto - REST!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The day true love died. The day true love died.
Lisa is happy THE ROWDIES ARE BACK!
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RE: What can you thank God for today? - 4/5/2009 4:15:28 PM
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Lisa it is nice to see you actively posting again.........
I want to thank the Lord for the child in me and for allowing adults, such as myself,to still play.........
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RE: What can you thank God for today? - 4/6/2009 7:11:24 PM
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Lisa it is nice to see you actively posting again.........
I want to thank the Lord for the child in me and for allowing adults, such as myself,to still play.........
joy2! I had to read this twice!! At first blush, I thought you were saying you're pregnant! LOL!
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RE: What can you thank God for today? - 4/7/2009 9:58:14 AM
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joy2give2u
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joy2! I had to read this twice!! At first blush, I thought you were saying you're pregnant! LOL! LOLOLOL I am sorry......it never once crossed my mind people might read it that way.......
For clarification.......
I am so thankful God smiles when we play as though we are still a child.
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RE: What can you thank God for today? - 4/7/2009 8:29:32 PM
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mutinywxgirl
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Hospice
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When blood and water hit the ground.
Walls we couldn't move came crashing down.
We were free and made alive.
The day true love died. The day true love died.
Lisa is happy THE ROWDIES ARE BACK!
14 (go Tony!)
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RE: What can you thank God for today? - 4/8/2009 2:05:58 AM
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Tears...they wash the clouds of doubt from my eyes and help my eyes to focus on the ONE who writes my days...the Author and Finisher of my faith, Jesus Christ!
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RE: What can you thank God for today? - 4/8/2009 4:33:11 PM
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Thanks, I needed this today. It has been one of those days when I just wanted to go home and cry all day. Actually it started yesterday afternoon. I went to bed early and that didn't seem to help this morning. I have been praying all day and I am thankful God has brought me through it once again and the day is not over. I can't say I don't have many days like that especially since R died but before that they were few and far between. I just don't want you to think I am emo all the time cause I am not.
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Tears...they wash the clouds of doubt from my eyes and help my eyes to focus on the ONE who writes my days...the Author and Finisher of my faith, Jesus Christ!
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RE: What can you thank God for today? - 4/8/2009 4:36:47 PM
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joy2give2u
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I thank God for the many people here who believe in the comforting arms of our Father and are willing to pray another can experience His arms when they feel like crying.
Praying for you Tz3
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RE: What can you thank God for today? - 4/9/2009 12:28:09 AM
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I had an amazing answer to my prayer today. It's about my daughter.
My daughter is at that age when she's going through severe identity struggles. She's becoming extremely shy when she's around kids she doesn't know. She's also developing a really tough exterior which makes it very tough for kids to get near her.
Anyway, the church had an event tonight for the girls in the youth group. The basic premise of the program was to help girls accept themselves as God sees them...basically based on Psalms 139. I'd been trying to convince her to attend this event for the past few weeks, but because of her shyness, she didn't want to attend. I spoke with one of the youth leaders several times to try to convince my daughter about it and make sure that if she goes, that she'll never feel left out.
This morning, when I asked her about it, she said she would go, then changed her mind after 5 minutes saying she wouldn't know anyone there. I didn't pressure her because if I did and it turned out bad for her, then, she'll never trust me about these things again. I just told her that if she changes her mind, to call me at work and I'd leave work early to drop her off. I prayed and left it up to God to convict her if He knew that it would be benefit her. Anyway, at 4 she called me saying she wanted to go. So, she went....and had an amazing time. She came home saying that she felt "so at peace and they discussed some really important stuff about being themselves". She received an autographed CD from the band, and she was just beaming when she came home.
I was crying when I drove home (I cry a lot when it comes to my daughter...lol). I felt that God really worked in her today...from convicting her to go, to ensuring that she got some solid teaching and positive experience from the group. And as an added blessing, for some reason, someone sponsored her so we didn't have to pay (the event cost $35/pp). It just had God written all over it.
I'm so absolutely grateful for tonight.
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Search me, Oh God, and know my heart
Try me, and know my anxieties;
And see if there is any wicked way in me, and
Lead me in the way everlasting Psalm 139:22-24
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RE: What can you thank God for today? - 4/9/2009 12:32:50 AM
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That's amazing Prairiehiker!
Thankful that God broke my heart sooner than later...long story short, let's just say I doubt if you guys will hear the name SB anytime soon...or ever. *sighs*
Thankful that even though it is painful, I am officially crushless for the first time in four years...
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RE: What can you thank God for today? - 4/9/2009 12:33:28 AM
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tz3
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Thanks. As a mom it is hard to see my boys struggeling with growing up and their faith. We are in such a time right now. My boys just want things the way they used to be with me in the youth group and us having fun together. I told them that they would be going through this phase of life even if we were not grieving. I told them about my sisters leaving home one by one (I am the youngest of 7) and their busy schedules. That it is just like when I wanted to paint the walls in the house but did nothing about it but grew more frustrated and agitated about it. It wasn't about the paint it was about who wasn't in the house any more and I had to realize that I had ifun in the past prior to R and could orchestrate such again with out him. Only this time it is not so much a matter of choosing fun as it is choosing family. It doesn't matter if it is paint or not hanging out together because someone is missing at some point you have to choose to live again. This is where my boys are at and now . They are aware of it and need to think about it, pray about it and act on it. They just need to make a conscious choice to make family a priority that we still are a family and have value without R. It is a bit like watching a butterfly come out of it's cacoon. If you help it they will never fly and nurish themselves or polinate the plants. They have to struggle this one through with God. But it breaks my heart to see because I know how it feels going through it. I struggled with it from the day R passed away until this past month. I have chosen to live again and rebuild my life, but it has to be with God at the center of everything I do so I am going slow but what makes this possible is my belief that God loves me and has my best interest at heart and will protect me and provide for me. With this reasurrance and boldness I am not afraid to be out on my own and rebuild my life. Being single I can go back to college and work toward my seminary degree while I wait on the Lord to bring me a new husband and new ministry and I can still be there with/for my boys on holidays as I am sure this will be the only time I get with them as they marry off and cling to their wives. Same thing other families go through. The only exception here is if I remarry and have more kids then they may have siblings not much older then their own children. This is kind of odd, but yes I have thought about this, and no I don't like thinking about this, but whatever happens happens. I love kids so I wouldn't complain. Who cares what others think.
Last but not least I had some faulse guilt over some strong reactions I had over some things that happened at church last year that I left go of tonight and I think that was it for what was upsetting me. I feel awesome now. So your prayers were definately heard. Thanks!
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I thank God for the many people here who believe in the comforting arms of our Father and are willing to pray another can experience His arms when they feel like crying.
Praying for you Tz3
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ORIGINAL: tz3
Thanks, I needed this today. It has been one of those days when I just wanted to go home and cry all day. Actually it started yesterday afternoon. I went to bed early and that didn't seem to help this morning. I have been praying all day and I am thankful God has brought me through it once again and the day is not over. I can't say I don't have many days like that especially since R died but before that they were few and far between. I just don't want you to think I am emo all the time cause I am not.
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ORIGINAL: jesuschick247
Tears...they wash the clouds of doubt from my eyes and help my eyes to focus on the ONE who writes my days...the Author and Finisher of my faith, Jesus Christ!
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RE: What can you thank God for today? - 4/9/2009 12:36:58 AM
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Thanks, I needed this today. It has been one of those days when I just wanted to go home and cry all day. Actually it started yesterday afternoon. I went to bed early and that didn't seem to help this morning. I have been praying all day and I am thankful God has brought me through it once again and the day is not over. I can't say I don't have many days like that especially since R died but before that they were few and far between. I just don't want you to think I am emo all the time cause I am not.
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ORIGINAL: jesuschick247
Tears...they wash the clouds of doubt from my eyes and help my eyes to focus on the ONE who writes my days...the Author and Finisher of my faith, Jesus Christ!
LOL! You're welcome...at the moment I am not believing I typed this out, I am so hurt myself!
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RE: What can you thank God for today? - 4/9/2009 12:42:43 AM
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Prairiehiker
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Thankful that God broke my heart sooner than later...long story short, let's just say I doubt if you guys will hear the name SB anytime soon...or ever. *sighs*
Thankful that even though it is painful, I am officially crushless for the first time in four years...
Aw....sorry to hear that. We're all waiting to see how this thing will turn out with you and what's his name. (hugs)
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Search me, Oh God, and know my heart
Try me, and know my anxieties;
And see if there is any wicked way in me, and
Lead me in the way everlasting Psalm 139:22-24
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RE: What can you thank God for today? - 4/9/2009 1:28:52 AM
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SamsonUSA
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ORIGINAL: Prairiehiker
I had an amazing answer to my prayer today. It's about my daughter.
My daughter is at that age when she's going through severe identity struggles. She's becoming extremely shy when she's around kids she doesn't know. She's also developing a really tough exterior which makes it very tough for kids to get near her.
Anyway, the church had an event tonight for the girls in the youth group. The basic premise of the program was to help girls accept themselves as God sees them...basically based on Psalms 139. I'd been trying to convince her to attend this event for the past few weeks, but because of her shyness, she didn't want to attend. I spoke with one of the youth leaders several times to try to convince my daughter about it and make sure that if she goes, that she'll never feel left out.
This morning, when I asked her about it, she said she would go, then changed her mind after 5 minutes saying she wouldn't know anyone there. I didn't pressure her because if I did and it turned out bad for her, then, she'll never trust me about these things again. I just told her that if she changes her mind, to call me at work and I'd leave work early to drop her off. I prayed and left it up to God to convict her if He knew that it would be benefit her. Anyway, at 4 she called me saying she wanted to go. So, she went....and had an amazing time. She came home saying that she felt "so at peace and they discussed some really important stuff about being themselves". She received an autographed CD from the band, and she was just beaming when she came home.
I was crying when I drove home (I cry a lot when it comes to my daughter...lol). I felt that God really worked in her today...from convicting her to go, to ensuring that she got some solid teaching and positive experience from the group. And as an added blessing, for some reason, someone sponsored her so we didn't have to pay (the event cost $35/pp). It just had God written all over it.
I'm so absolutely grateful for tonight.
I bet you cried your eyes out. I got a tear in my eye just from reading your post. 
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If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.
We are the objects of God's grace. Let Him be the object of our gratitude.
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RE: What can you thank God for today? - 4/9/2009 9:03:56 AM
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I thank God that though we are not sufficient in our own strength, that " our sufficiency is from God " 2 COR 3:5
AMEN!!! BTW, I love your new avatar!
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RE: What can you thank God for today? - 4/9/2009 9:54:46 AM
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Prairie, that is such a sweet answer to prayer for you. I have prayed for your girl often ... I use to wear my hair the same way at her age (in my face so no one could see me; though at the time I just thought it was a good style  ). Middle school is sooooo tough. I am very thankful for the way God is working in her life and for the way He is showing His love to you through answered prayers.
Chicka ... One of the toughest things in the world is to go through that kind of heartache. I am very thankful that God has given you such a tender heart that longs to be where He knows is best for you. Sometimes we cannot see what He sees, and the tears cloud our vision in the same way the clouds cover the sun from our view, but we can know that the sun is still glowing brightly behind those clouds in the same way the Son is shining through in our lives.
You are a worship leader, so you will probably appreciate this. I was going through a time where I could not stop crying anytime I sang praise and worship. I was the main vocalist on our worship team, so you would think that would be a problem. Somehow, though the tears would flow down like a river (making my shirt sopping wet by the time I was through!!!), the notes remained clear. I one day realized that when we choose to worship through our pain, we really touch the heart of the Father. We are not standing there in the heavenlies, and cannot see Him the way the angels see Him. Our view is clouded on our best days. But on the days when our world is crashing in, and we cannot see or feel His hand in our lives. Those times when we feel most abandoned and alone, yet we choose to worship the King with all that we have ... those are the times He is touched and though we may not see or feel His presence in that moment; He is tenderly loving us and grateful that we are His own.
I am grateful that you lead others to worship even when it is tough.
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