danausmc
10-16-2004, 11:13 PM
Earlier today (yesterday) I started to make a new forum to look at some issues but part of this forum. I forgot how to do it.
What follows is what I was thinking and apparently I deleted my original writing so will now try to recapture as I have thought more about it.
There has been some pretty profound writing here in this entire site.
Steves poem about "only a flick" really made me think about all kinds of things.
The post by Snowyowl about solitude and quiet hit a nerve. But for good. Please look around and revisit some of the posts and there is a lot of feeling and emotion in these threads.
Steve writes right on the edge.....Duffy does the same thing.....James tells his stories in pictures...Bones paints pictures with words.....AJ provides the place to do it.....at the end of the day....each of us has a net worth that cant be measured. There are those that will never like any of us....leave you for another....screw you in business...tell tales behind your back.....lie to your face.....but no one says you got to hang around with them ......but for those that are impacted in a positive way......your worth is beyond measure....the soft word...the gentle reminder...the meal you took to a friend that was down...the ride to the VA....the time you took a brother to Church....when you caused some one in your writing to question his beliefs and look to the Lord....the example you set in turmoil and suffering....you can read it in the poems.....you can read it in the posts.....remember in the Old Testament? right before the boys were thrown in the fire? They were in deep stuff, and about to die......what did they say? Oh great king, we believe our God can save us, but even if he does not, we will not bow to you. (my paraphrase).
Their faith saved them .....and that same faith is what keeps us going. But when you are all alone....and its the still of the night and the devil is whispering in your ear about your failures and all the things you ever did that wont measure up to someone elses standards .....that little bit of faith may be all thats left.
Dont give up. Dont quit. Look at all you have been through. God promised to give us the strength to be overcomers and not let you have anything come your way that would be too much to bear with out a way out. HE is the way out. Not suicide. Not more beer. Not Drugs or sex or overeating or running away.
When it gets down to the nitty gritty....it just might be you and Jesus. Pick up your foot and put it in front of the other. There is no magic formula that says if you do this or that....all your problems will disappear. It dont work like that. That is why we have each other to lean on. That is the power of your testimony. If im in trouble and want to just wax the whole "flick", I have your testimony about what Jesus did for you and the Bible says he will do it for me too. remember the first forced march you went on? All the stuff that you thought you would not endure in Boot Camp? the beatings you got when you where a kid? The times you almost got killed? the surgeries you endured that they said would kill you? The car or bike crashes? the time you almost drowned? The loss of your child or mom or your dad?
YOU ARE STILL HERE....you made it, and it was, and still is hard. You have a story to tell and there are those that need to hear it.
That makes you a most valuable person. You are already special to God. His word says so.
Well thats it for right now.....I seem to have forgotten what I had wanted to say.....
God Bless you all.
Dana
What follows is what I was thinking and apparently I deleted my original writing so will now try to recapture as I have thought more about it.
There has been some pretty profound writing here in this entire site.
Steves poem about "only a flick" really made me think about all kinds of things.
The post by Snowyowl about solitude and quiet hit a nerve. But for good. Please look around and revisit some of the posts and there is a lot of feeling and emotion in these threads.
Steve writes right on the edge.....Duffy does the same thing.....James tells his stories in pictures...Bones paints pictures with words.....AJ provides the place to do it.....at the end of the day....each of us has a net worth that cant be measured. There are those that will never like any of us....leave you for another....screw you in business...tell tales behind your back.....lie to your face.....but no one says you got to hang around with them ......but for those that are impacted in a positive way......your worth is beyond measure....the soft word...the gentle reminder...the meal you took to a friend that was down...the ride to the VA....the time you took a brother to Church....when you caused some one in your writing to question his beliefs and look to the Lord....the example you set in turmoil and suffering....you can read it in the poems.....you can read it in the posts.....remember in the Old Testament? right before the boys were thrown in the fire? They were in deep stuff, and about to die......what did they say? Oh great king, we believe our God can save us, but even if he does not, we will not bow to you. (my paraphrase).
Their faith saved them .....and that same faith is what keeps us going. But when you are all alone....and its the still of the night and the devil is whispering in your ear about your failures and all the things you ever did that wont measure up to someone elses standards .....that little bit of faith may be all thats left.
Dont give up. Dont quit. Look at all you have been through. God promised to give us the strength to be overcomers and not let you have anything come your way that would be too much to bear with out a way out. HE is the way out. Not suicide. Not more beer. Not Drugs or sex or overeating or running away.
When it gets down to the nitty gritty....it just might be you and Jesus. Pick up your foot and put it in front of the other. There is no magic formula that says if you do this or that....all your problems will disappear. It dont work like that. That is why we have each other to lean on. That is the power of your testimony. If im in trouble and want to just wax the whole "flick", I have your testimony about what Jesus did for you and the Bible says he will do it for me too. remember the first forced march you went on? All the stuff that you thought you would not endure in Boot Camp? the beatings you got when you where a kid? The times you almost got killed? the surgeries you endured that they said would kill you? The car or bike crashes? the time you almost drowned? The loss of your child or mom or your dad?
YOU ARE STILL HERE....you made it, and it was, and still is hard. You have a story to tell and there are those that need to hear it.
That makes you a most valuable person. You are already special to God. His word says so.
Well thats it for right now.....I seem to have forgotten what I had wanted to say.....
God Bless you all.
Dana