How is life treating you?
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I would post it but, likely I'd get booted for it. So I'll behave a little here.
I'm a strange guy I guess, maybe I just think I am. Sometimes I'm up, and sometimes I'm very down. When I'm down it's bad. When I'm up I'm pretty good but the wind can be taken from my sails, then I'm down. I don't make it known I just try to resist inside myself. I have to pull myself out of the down ward spiral. Some times it helps to get some sleep at night if I can. If I can get up with a purpose and just start moving, I can do good too.
I'm a strange guy I guess, maybe I just think I am. Sometimes I'm up, and sometimes I'm very down. When I'm down it's bad. When I'm up I'm pretty good but the wind can be taken from my sails, then I'm down. I don't make it known I just try to resist inside myself. I have to pull myself out of the down ward spiral. Some times it helps to get some sleep at night if I can. If I can get up with a purpose and just start moving, I can do good too.
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[/QUOTE="Blackpowderduelist, post: 4389734, member: 300990"]I would post it but, likely I'd get booted for it. So I'll behave a little here.
I'm a strange guy I guess, maybe I just think I am. Sometimes I'm up, and sometimes I'm very down. When I'm down it's bad. When I'm up I'm pretty good but the wind can be taken from my sails, then I'm down. I don't make it known I just try to resist inside myself. I have to pull myself out of the down ward spiral. Some times it helps to get some sleep at night if I can. If I can get up with a purpose and just start moving, I can do good too.[/QUOTE]
I can relate. My ups are good but my downs really are tough. I can really relate to having the wind in the sails and like a second the wind changes in the opposite direction. And I'm slow to adjust my sails to gain the wind again.
I'm a strange guy I guess, maybe I just think I am. Sometimes I'm up, and sometimes I'm very down. When I'm down it's bad. When I'm up I'm pretty good but the wind can be taken from my sails, then I'm down. I don't make it known I just try to resist inside myself. I have to pull myself out of the down ward spiral. Some times it helps to get some sleep at night if I can. If I can get up with a purpose and just start moving, I can do good too.[/QUOTE]
I can relate. My ups are good but my downs really are tough. I can really relate to having the wind in the sails and like a second the wind changes in the opposite direction. And I'm slow to adjust my sails to gain the wind again.
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"Yet will I praise Him"
It's the only thing that gives me strength, I declare it and go. Otherwise, I feel similar. The waking up moment, when I realize I am conscient and trapped in my life again, is usually the worst part of the day. During the day I distract myself, do this, do that, Bible, housework, read a book, art, so it's usually not terrible. God has blessed me with an easily distractible mind, I've always thought it was a liability but I have been realizing in recent years just how much of a blessing it is. I'd be doing a lot worse without it.
It's the only thing that gives me strength, I declare it and go. Otherwise, I feel similar. The waking up moment, when I realize I am conscient and trapped in my life again, is usually the worst part of the day. During the day I distract myself, do this, do that, Bible, housework, read a book, art, so it's usually not terrible. God has blessed me with an easily distractible mind, I've always thought it was a liability but I have been realizing in recent years just how much of a blessing it is. I'd be doing a lot worse without it.
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Full of ups and downs in good measure. Through it all, God is there leading me. I feel His presence. If not for Jesus, I would feel lost and would not be able to stand on my own. Holding on to Him. Even in the days when I fall short and fail. Especially on those days, I call on God. That's my life.
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Hi,
In Him we live, and move and have our being.. That said, i can say 'life' doesnt seem very fair really, for a long time. But i take heart because i know our God is both loving and just. Once or twice, i told abt having really terror teachers in a row in grade school, wc gave me trauma. As i'm a younger child and rather behaved, my parents probably mostly thought i was ok=), altho they did see i struggled esp going to a distant high school, where God was with me thru it all.
Some (many?) people seem to think blessings are mostly what we see and touch still, and materially speaking, i dont have much to my name. Our parents worked hard to leave legacy to my sibs and me in the form of education and real property.. but we were not rich in the sense that we could eat out (we barely did as i was growing up), we could travel much (well they did, not me), we have great or good paying jobs (mine isnt regular), we have many friends and are popular at the gates (they do too, perhaps coz my parents knew many of my sibs' friends and vice versa, and i didnt quite get to the point where i could meet and interact w/ many of theirs incl. chancellors, directors, etc. esp coz we moved and were lost in circulation. But ive always strived to count my blessings, my family in Christ and my own family, events, even trials when i could praise and thank our Lord. We dont go hungry and naked, not seriously ill, have no outstanding loans, are able to share, help or encourage others here and there, and live simply but rejoicing in the Lord when i dont complain, grudge others or i learn to forgive along the way. We're free to sing each day and tell others abt God's faithfulness and love.. if we will! Thankful i'm continuing to learn to bless our Lord whether He gives or takes, when the grape doesnt blossom, or the fig tree does not bear fruit.
In Him we live, and move and have our being.. That said, i can say 'life' doesnt seem very fair really, for a long time. But i take heart because i know our God is both loving and just. Once or twice, i told abt having really terror teachers in a row in grade school, wc gave me trauma. As i'm a younger child and rather behaved, my parents probably mostly thought i was ok=), altho they did see i struggled esp going to a distant high school, where God was with me thru it all.
Some (many?) people seem to think blessings are mostly what we see and touch still, and materially speaking, i dont have much to my name. Our parents worked hard to leave legacy to my sibs and me in the form of education and real property.. but we were not rich in the sense that we could eat out (we barely did as i was growing up), we could travel much (well they did, not me), we have great or good paying jobs (mine isnt regular), we have many friends and are popular at the gates (they do too, perhaps coz my parents knew many of my sibs' friends and vice versa, and i didnt quite get to the point where i could meet and interact w/ many of theirs incl. chancellors, directors, etc. esp coz we moved and were lost in circulation. But ive always strived to count my blessings, my family in Christ and my own family, events, even trials when i could praise and thank our Lord. We dont go hungry and naked, not seriously ill, have no outstanding loans, are able to share, help or encourage others here and there, and live simply but rejoicing in the Lord when i dont complain, grudge others or i learn to forgive along the way. We're free to sing each day and tell others abt God's faithfulness and love.. if we will! Thankful i'm continuing to learn to bless our Lord whether He gives or takes, when the grape doesnt blossom, or the fig tree does not bear fruit.
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Today my three-year-old squished my one-year-old's fingers in his closet door. We went to the store and silly mama forgot raisins (one of the only snacks my autistic toddler will actually eat). I have a splitting headache and I'm terribly tired.
All in all, a very blessed day that I wouldn't trade for anything. The Lord is with us in the highs and the lows. ❤
And these snuggles make every headache and heartache worth it and then some. ❤
All in all, a very blessed day that I wouldn't trade for anything. The Lord is with us in the highs and the lows. ❤
And these snuggles make every headache and heartache worth it and then some. ❤
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