Streams of Consciousness & Thoughts~~~

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iTOREtheSKY said:
I never thought I'd say this...but I had an awesome time today spent with a house full of kids. (17 to be exact) My friends son turned 9 today. He is Autistic,but you'd never know it. One of his gifts was an antique tea set his Grandmother hunted all over God's green earth to find for him. I know yer' thinking,how odd for a boy to want a fancy tea set,right? He also got a dirt bike which he lost his mind over. (don't blame him..it was a sweet bike!) Anyways,after it all died down,it was my friend,his ex,their boys,and myself & a friend of mine & her 2 sons. We were watching some suspense films and they were all having tea @ the dining room table & having left over birthday cake.
What was amazing to me,is that not one of them thought it was odd for 4 boys ages 7-10 to be having a tea party. I t was kinda cool to think that these boys who are typical in every way of kid's that age,had just as much fun giggling,sipping tea together as they did 5 hrs earlier chasing one another outside with high powered water guns & Nerf bow & arrows!
All I kept thinking is how as a child we have zero inhibitions. We just have fun doing whatever it is we are doing. When yer' among friends...life is perfection! As I watched them,a part of me felt like God was saying "See,the simplicity of how they interact with one another,see the joy they have,see the innocence?" - "That's how it can be for you every single day,Jim if you just cast your cares on me & stop trying to out think me...out run me..ignore me."

Come to me as a little child.
Easy peasy.
God is pretty Awesome!
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As a face painter, I see all sorts of things and get all sorts of requests. But one of the sweetest is when little boys ask for butterflies, complete with glitter and the works. They don't know or care that butterflies are "for girls". They see them, think they are beautiful, and want one on their face. Even better is when the parents tell their little boys that they can pick what they want, and that they look amazing with their butterflies. It really makes my day. I love your tea party story. Boys should be able to enjoy a tea party, or play with a doll. Guys drink tea after all. And raise babies just like mothers do. I love kids free from inhibitions.
 
Grace-Like-Rain said:
As a face painter, I see all sorts of things and get all sorts of requests. But one of the sweetest is when little boys ask for butterflies, complete with glitter and the works. They don't know or care that butterflies are "for girls". They see them, think they are beautiful, and want one on their face. Even better is when the parents tell their little boys that they can pick what they want, and that they look amazing with their butterflies. It really makes my day. I love your tea party story. Boys should be able to enjoy a tea party, or play with a doll. Guys drink tea after all. And raise babies just like mothers do. I love kids free from inhibitions.
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I had a toy dinosaur when I grew up because I liked dinos, along with loving Barbies and baby dolls. :D
 
What I want to do: curl up in a ball and pretend I don't exist.
What I'm going to do: take a deep breath, pretend it doesn't hurt, and slap a smile on my face.

And then I'll go buy a bunch of cheap nail polish I don't need and might not use, smell expensive perfume and sneeze my head off, and over dose on coffee.
That's how we do "depressed" around here.
So...yay...
 
Even through this statement of hell, I like how you worded it.
You should write more stuff about your pain :p
MissCris said:
What I want to do: curl up in a ball and pretend I don't exist.
What I'm going to do: take a deep breath, pretend it doesn't hurt, and slap a smile on my face.

And then I'll go buy a bunch of cheap nail polish I don't need and might not use, smell expensive perfume and sneeze my head off, and over dose on coffee.
That's how we do "depressed" around here.
So...yay...
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MissCris said:
What I want to do: curl up in a ball and pretend I don't exist.
What I'm going to do: take a deep breath, pretend it doesn't hurt, and slap a smile on my face.

And then I'll go buy a bunch of cheap nail polish I don't need and might not use, smell expensive perfume and sneeze my head off, and over dose on coffee.
That's how we do "depressed" around here.
So...yay...
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I say, do whatever it takes to help get yourself out of that hole (I mean, as long as it's not like, blatantly going against God's Word and stuff). We all need that one thing that helps us forget about the world for a little bit, then when we do get back, it makes it just a bit easier to "deal."
 
iTOREtheSKY said:
I never thought I'd say this...but I had an awesome time today spent with a house full of kids. (17 to be exact) My friends son turned 9 today. He is Autistic,but you'd never know it. One of his gifts was an antique tea set his Grandmother hunted all over God's green earth to find for him. I know yer' thinking,how odd for a boy to want a fancy tea set,right? He also got a dirt bike which he lost his mind over. (don't blame him..it was a sweet bike!) Anyways,after it all died down,it was my friend,his ex,their boys,and myself & a friend of mine & her 2 sons. We were watching some suspense films and they were all having tea @ the dining room table & having left over birthday cake.
What was amazing to me,is that not one of them thought it was odd for 4 boys ages 7-10 to be having a tea party. I t was kinda cool to think that these boys who are typical in every way of kid's that age,had just as much fun giggling,sipping tea together as they did 5 hrs earlier chasing one another outside with high powered water guns & Nerf bow & arrows!
All I kept thinking is how as a child we have zero inhibitions. We just have fun doing whatever it is we are doing. When yer' among friends...life is perfection! As I watched them,a part of me felt like God was saying "See,the simplicity of how they interact with one another,see the joy they have,see the innocence?" - "That's how it can be for you every single day,Jim if you just cast your cares on me & stop trying to out think me...out run me..ignore me."

Come to me as a little child.
Easy peasy.
God is pretty Awesome!
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This just lifted my already improving mood, quite a bit. God is amazing with these things :)

Thanks for sharing with us :)
 
So, my fiancé and I got into a fight, but we were talking really quietly because the baby was in bed, and I thought his sister was in bed too. We were pretty much whispering in each not hers ears while we were having this fight.... But his sister walked in, and it occurred to me that we probably looked really awkward... So she stopped our fight just by walking in the room.... Because I felt awkward.
 
I don´t expect an answer, except ONE God could give to humanity and each person who badly or sadly need it...

Have you thought that many persons who might have liked this movie, in their real or passed life, have lived this drama out?

I know it for sure, since the beginning, though I think GOD can turn the bad to good...

Hope all of you who have disliked it (or suffered) find some refreshment in the miracles God does each time a people turn away from sinning, from doing things the oppisite way around.

Praised be His eternal name!

A.T.
 
lil_christian said:
I had a toy dinosaur when I grew up because I liked dinos, along with loving Barbies and baby dolls. :D
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Only one toy dinosaur? Well, one's better than none. How did you reenact movies like Jurassic Park? I bet the Barbies didn't get off easily. :P
 
MissCris said:
What I want to do: curl up in a ball and pretend I don't exist.
What I'm going to do: take a deep breath, pretend it doesn't hurt, and slap a smile on my face.

And then I'll go buy a bunch of cheap nail polish I don't need and might not use, smell expensive perfume and sneeze my head off, and over dose on coffee.
That's how we do "depressed" around here.
So...yay...
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Today, I went and saw a 'bawl your eyes out' tragedy/romance movie. I knew I needed a good cry, I just couldn't bring myself to do it. Then I saw this movie and it got me started. So afterwards, I drove to the water's edge, parked my car, looked out at the sunset and I cried. I just cried for 30 minutes straight until my eyes were swollen and blood shot. I dragged out my moment of grief as long as it needed to be, I got as messy and raw as I needed to be, then I welcomed God in. Just as I said, 'Fill me with Your peace' to start my prayer, no joke, the sun broke out through the clouds. I thought this only happened in cheesy movies.

I have this crumpled old piece of paper I keep in the sunglasses compartment box of my car. It is Psalm 23, which was also actually read out in the movie I was watching. I tuck it in my pocket when ever I know I'm going to have a bad day and I read it over and over again. Not only that, but I love the image behind the scripture. It's a picture of the Lord holding on to a lamb.

MissCris, sometimes faking it, smiling and pretending is not going to help anything, but hurts you that bit more. I don't know the magnitude of your pain, I have never walked in your shoes, but all I know from experience is that we need to be real and honest with ourselves. It means being honest about our grief. I think there was some line in the movie, 'Pain demands to be felt'. Another one was something like, 'Rain always comes before a rainbow' or something along those lines. If I could so boldly give you advice, it would be to call your pain what it is, face it as it exactly is, let it out in all its ferocity and empty you heart. Then welcome the Prince of Peace in.

Sometimes that process is messy, embarrassing and anything but graceful, but that's just life. It's messy. But even in the most shattered messes, God can put it together in a new way that glorifies Him and gives you the joy you are longing for.
 
I have very few friends in life... But am discovering that the few I have are worth being found. <3
 
Tintin said:
Only one toy dinosaur? Well, one's better than none. How did you reenact movies like Jurassic Park? I bet the Barbies didn't get off easily. :P
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LOL I think the Barbies and the dino acknowledged each other, but never really crossed paths. XD
 
There's a bit of wise advice my daddy gave me when I was little. My brother was ten years younger than I, and I helped take care of him a lot. I once expressed frustration about something concerning him (I can't recall what it was). The point is, my dad said to me something along these lines: "Jillian, enjoy him. If you keep thinking ahead imagining how fun it'll be when he can do this, or how much you'll like it when he's old enough to not do that anymore, you'll miss the fun of enjoying him as a baby. He'll never be this young again, so enjoy it all you can now."

I'm glad I listened to him to the extent that I did. At this point in my life, it doesn't look like I'll have biological children of my own, though fortunately that's fine with me. Future life events aren't generally promised to us, and if I hadn't enjoyed the baby that WAS sent into my life, it would be a tragedy and I doubt I'd be quite as okay with my circumstances as I am now...
 
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I need to be more careful about falling asleep with everything up. lol When I don't want to fall asleep or make an effort to fall asleep, I get tired, I close my eyes, just for a few seconds. An hour or 2 later, I wake up, realizing I fell asleep, and I'm still in Singles chat. haha

It's funny how my brain works like that.
 
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I'm going to need coffee and patience.


I hate sending invitations. Especially when I can't find the addresses I need!
 
I always think I must be losing my mind when I feel like God is speaking to me...you know, trying to determine if it's really God, or if it's my own mind, or if maybe I'm just somehow tuned into some radio station talk show.

I suppose that's where a bit (or more) of faith comes in; trust that the voice of reason in my head is The Lord, and not me. Which makes good sense, really, since it's pretty rare that I myself am/have a voice of reason.

Sometimes it's just hard to find the pause button for all the other noise going on in my head, so that I can understand what God is telling me. And I hate to have to ask Him to repeat Himself...being all like "...God? Is...is that You? Could you um...would you mind saying that again? I...er...you know, wasn't listening the first time. You already knew that though. So anyway...what'd you say?"

I wonder if that's frustrating to Him, or if it's maybe sort of amusing.

I'd certainly hope God gets a kick out of some of the quirks he's given me.

 
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