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JustAnotherUser
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So one of those animal cruelty commercials was on TV before and they were showing the abuse/neglect that they found some dogs to be in. My dog was looking straight at the screen when they were showing it and he had to have stared for like five seconds while it was happening. Cutest yet the saddest thing to me.
Essentially, it's a situation where NOT using a specific "crutch" has become a crutch to me.
This may be a bit hard to explain, but there is something in my life that most people would consider to be something of an advantage, but I have been determined not to use it as such. And eventually it reached a point, I believe, where I am not enjoying life to the fullest because I am shrinking from this "crutch".
Shrinking from something is not strong, it is not brave, it is not necessary, and it is not right. And so I am becoming determined to lose the second crutch by embracing the first one. Because trying to gain strength by devaluing something else is actually a kind of weakness.
I love this! How simply and elegantly put. What a beautiful mess the human mind is.
A couple of weeks ago when I was teaching Sunday school I took the kids down stairs to get a piece of cake that someone had brought for a baptism. Anyhow I was talking to the pastor of our church and I said, well we need to go back to class, we're discussing Ruth this morning. He said, Oh the Bibles guide on how to get a Husband. I kind of chuckled, and he didn't mean any harm, but I never thought of Ruth that way. I've been reading some stories to the kids about women in the Bible, they haven't heard many stories and they've been basically doing the same things every year. I always looked at Ruth as more of a book of faith and love. Am I wrong?
I definitely view Ruth as a book on faith, loyalty, compassion, and genuine love. And that's before Boaz ever entered the picture.
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Siberian_Khatru
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Me to, I thought Ruth was a very caring compassionate Godly woman. That's what I was trying to get across to the kids. Boaz wasn't even in my thought when I put the lesson together.
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I have always seen Ruth as an example of us being adopted into the family of God.
It's funny - Ruth and Esther are popular books for women's Bible studies. Never heard of a men's group studying these.
It is funny isn't it, because we could easily look at Boaz as a great role model as how we should act as men.
Some friends have asked to see what I've been working on lately, so I uploaded some paintings to an album on my profile page if anyone is interested in taking a peek. 
Yeah, kinda like reliving the '60's.......uh, no, wait, your too young to do that...........
This whole conversation was fascinating to me. Invisibiiiiilia.
And PopClick, it's okay, we won't tell anyone about your ability to fly. But a gift like that shouldn't go to waste
Also, I like your ability to self-reflect like you do. It's an amazing skill to have. And your avatar is pretty awesome too!