Monday, August 4, 2008

Thank God I don't have kids!

After watching the Nanny and TLC sixtuplets show I have realized it is a very good thing Chris has fallen out of love with me and we are no longer together! I am still trying to fill the void of what I didn't get in my childhood and meet my own needs, imagine having to meet 3 or 4 other humans?

Imagine having kids in that relationship? Trying to raise responsible, honest, boundaries, non-violent, loving, trusting adults? We might have never even been able to come an agreement on the way to raise them or ever even discipline them.

I mean if we couldn't conquer these boundary, communication and trust issues there is is no way we could have ever dealt with marriage and children issues!

Letters to God 2

8/3/08
Dear Jehovah,
Praise to you for this wonderful day! I am in so much pain but I am going to praise you and give thanks. Thank you so much for letting me have my day with Corey and showing me your Word (the lessons of the fruits and flesh vs spirit hearts). Thank you for giving me the courage to reach out instead of isolating and feeling alone. Please continue to give me strength as my pain grows and thank you for my lesson with the earthquake. Thank you for reminding me of Chris's weaknesses today and our spiritual incompatibility. Please continue to help me be strong in letting go of him and our past, so I may find the path instead to you and only you. Thank you for bringing my sister to me and giving me food to eat! Please put those in my life who put you first and foremost so I may trust, fellowship, and feel close to your good fruit & have the opportunity to learn by their examples and modicum. I want to get closer to you and find your will for me in my career. Whatever is your will please continue to push me in that direction as you have with Chris. I have approx 30 days to find a job before I cannot live here, please bless me with something you would like for me to start with.

Please help my family and friends come to know you Jesus. I pray for Chris in his work situation to remember to trust in you and to keep himself from being misled. Thank you for granting him a conscience. I pray you make him strong as a rock for you and only you God, that he learns to trust in you and therefore learns to trust in himself.

Give him integrity and honesty as he forges through this & show him your will for him. Thank you for making him my brother in Christ and please strengthen our relationship over time. I pray for Asha and Joey Lord that they conquer their emotional and career hurdles and Corey that she may succeed at her new job in your will. I pray for Alicia to be strengthened with dealing with her finances Lord, and thank you for giving me the info to search and advise her. Thank you for the wisdom of Corey's mom and dad yesterday in the advice of you giving to me little by little, preparing me slowly so I may get to enjoy at the right time/handle the larger things you have in store for me that I cannot see. I love you and praise you and thank you for your undeserved love and mercy. All these things I ask, pray and give thanks, in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ, Amen.

7/30/08
Dear Jehovah,
Thank you so much for this day! Praise you for allowing me another breath and a feeling of calm. I am thankful for being able to buy food and eat. Thank you so much for feeding me and blessing me! I would like to pray for strength Jehovah to persevere on the path to Christ. I would like to ask for humility and forgiveness with those who I have lingering resentments toward. I would like to prepare to ask you to remove these shortcomings of mine and replace them with awareness and correct blameless behaviors.(in your time)

Please come soon Jesus so you may restore this system of things and rid us of "the god of this age". Open my ears so I may hear, open my eyes so I may see your will for me in my career and life path to serve you.

Please help my family and friends come to know you and your love for them and to follow your way, Jesus. Please bless the homeless and women who are stuck with violence and the "proud scoffers" in their midst and see no way out. Please help those who are on mission and allow their light (and mine here) to shine so others will turn to you by their examples. Thank you for returning Karin home safely! Please help me to not be misled by the false prophets and light your way clearly for me so I may be the fertile ground and not cracks, thorns or eaten by the birds.

Thank you kindly for one more day without pain and one more day to try to serve. All these things I ask, pray and give thanks, in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ, Amen.

PS Thanks for making me strong against the temptation/desire to masturbate and to smoke today!

7/29/08
Dear Jehovah,
Thank you for blessing me today with another breath of life! I truly was afraid during this earthquake and forgot to pray to you and seek you first! Please do not ever let me do that again! I need to remove this fear/cowardice I have of perishing and being persecuted in your name. I know you are my Savior Jesus, how can I let go in those moments of utter fear? Faith. Please help me strengthen my faith and get closer to you Jesus. Please open your Word to me so I may understand and continue repenting. Thank you for removing my desire to smoke and masturbate yesterday. I am feeling stressed and those are my comforts which hurt myself.

Please continue to help me to be strong as only you can. I want to care for this temple while I have it. Thank you for this gift. Please continue to bless my family and friends come to know you Jesus and your promise for them Lord. Please bless those on the mission field and those spreading your Word. I look forward to joining those ranks soon. Let me see the "fruits" of this congregation Lord so I may not be misled by false doctrine or prophets coming in "your name". You say I will know them by their fruits and they should show fruits of the spirit, but how if they are human?

Please take this fear and replace it with meek assertion and godly conviction. Help me to forgive those who trespass against me as you forgive me. All these things I ask, pray and give thanks, in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ my Savior, Amen.

7/28/08
Dear Jehovah,
Hi! Thank you for blessing me with no pain on this gorgeous day! Thank you for Sundays msg and hearing my mothers wisdom on your time. Thank you for giving me another day of breath and Chris and Ray being able to fix my computer so I may look for work. Please bless them both in their pursuits and let them come to know your love and blessings.

Please continue to help me be strong in this departure from Chris and remind me of our spiritual incompatibility when I am feeling weak and in love. Please let me forgive and care for him as a brother in Christ only and slowly let go of our past. Give me the strength to move on Lord and see only you and your will for me.

Envelop me Jesus as I begin work and school and encounter struggles to seek the kingdom first! Please bless my family and friends & loved ones to come to know you Jesus and your desire for them, Lord. Help me to be a vessel of your will and find my career path & what you divinely deem for me. Please let me help more others Lord and bring them to your fold.

All these things I ask, pray and give thanks, in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ my Savior, Amen.

7/26/08
Dear Jehovah,
Thank you for this wonderful day and the witnessing of beauty in humans and sharing good music in the company of women and some support. Please put those in my life who put you first and bless me with their friendship and companionship. Give me the strength and comfort I need to get through this time of learning Chris and I are not meant to be. I will need your strength, honesty and kindness toward him tomorrow, to be kind but not close or with anger/judgment.

I would like to ask that you please bless my family and friends & loved ones to come to know you. Only you have the power and the glory to bring these changes in my life and others. Please bless those being persecuted and doing your will in dangerous places, I look forward to joining them. Thank you again for showing me your will with Chris and granting/planting it in his heart to be honest with me. Thank you for loving and saving me! Please help Nancy to to come to know your love and comfort. Please give her self-love. You are the warmth that one can feel in the coldest of times.

Please grants me the fruits of the spirit Jesus and help me to become more like you. Continue to light my path toward your will for me in my life and career. All these things I ask, pray and give thanks, in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ my Savior, Amen.

7/25/08
Dear Jehovah,
Thank you for this beautiful blessed day. Though I am feeling sad Chris did not call me and seems to have again abandoned me, I put it all in your loving hands. You are my rock. You are my love. I am thankful for all these experiences and teachings. I know you love me and have better for me in store. Give me patience Jehovah and please above all strength. Show me your will for me and put those in my life who put you first in all things. Help me to get over Chris Jehovah.

Help me to let go of all the pain and forgive with love and letting go. You have answered my prayers in leading Chris to you for better changes in his life. Thank you. However, you seem to refuse to give him to me for me to love at this time. I will work on letting him go and giving the outcome to you. Please put at homeless person in my sight today to feed. Please light my way as I feel I am in darkness. Please bless my family and friends and help them to come to know you. Enfold me and put me in your arms so I may stay on and walk your path only. All these things I ask, pray and give thanks, in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ my Savior, Amen.

7/24/08 10:55p
Feeling Excercise
What does let go and let God mean in this situation with Chris?
It means I cannot control Chris only he can! I cannot stop him from behaving this way. He knows how I feel and he still continues. He told me the other day he would hurt me, probably. He has told me that he fears he will continue to be this way. Letting go and letting God means stop getting in His way. Let things progress they way they should and don't question or fight it. Chris and I are not meant to be together or friends. I do not trust him anymore. We cannot fix what was broken. I need to let him go and know that though I may not see it, God wants better for me than this. He will eventually bring someone into my life who will not treat me this way. I need to give in and be subservient. I need to trust God as he is more trustworthy than Chris or anyone can ever be.

I need to know that God knows what is in my best interest and sees the bumps and accelerations in the road ahead that I dont. I need to give this pain to Him. Pray, get closer, continue working on my own life and building my relationship with Him.

What does this situation remind me of my childhood and is this true for me today?
The situation with Chris reminds me of being abandoned and feeling not good enough for my parents to love me, choose me or treat me well. Not being good enough for dad to call, write, or IM. Is this true for me today?

No. This is not true. I am good enough. I am a great person. CHris does not need to be at my beck and call and let me know everything he does and when. I can never be abandoned by God so I dont need to put all this emphasis and care on one person. It is his loss, not mine. Perhaps he is doing something very important to his future, only God knows. (he was playing pool with Ray and later picking up another girl)

I am angry that he says he will call and does not. This reminds me of my dad letting me down. I would wait by the phone or door for him to come or call and then nothing. Leading me to feel like I was unimportant, unwanted. Then he would act as if nothing happened or it was not a big deal that he let me down and that his actions "should not" hurt. I didn't bring it up to dad for fear of confrontation or further abandonment. Now as an adult, I do not need to do this anymore or accept this behavior.

7/21/08
Dear Jehovah,
Thank you for blessing me today w/ another breath on earth! Thank you for the wonderful weather and Sunday sermon about giving YOU the glory. I want your will Father in my situation with Chris and my life path! Please show it to me. Help me be come strong in my faith in you only. Help me to keep humble and remain in love and be loving and trusting. If my love and eyes are on you, whom then shall I fear? No one for you are the Most High! I am blessed by you and want to cast off this flesh and sin! Thank you Jesus for showing me the way today. Please bless my family and friends and help them to come to know you. Lead the way for my life, please Lord! All these things I ... wait Jehovah!

There are some others I would like to pray for. I would like to pray for our world leaders that they realize their wrongs and to repent (even just one) and i would like to give thanks for answering Alicia's prayer and giving Fathey the spirit to go on. I would like to pray for Chris today Lord that you give him the encouragement he needs for his work and help him stay true to you. Help him see the reason you have him working there or not and grant him the patience to do what he needs to do. Help him to remember to give you glory in his actions and to be loving and strong in his faith in you. I would like to pray for Paige in her therapy and in being honest with me. I would like to pray for Anne's leg to be healed. I would like to pray for those unseen who need you today and your comfort and love.

All these things I ask, pray and give thanks, in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ my Savior, Amen.

7/16/08
Dear Jehovah,
Thank you blessing me with today and with no pain and love from Chris. Keep me strong in my direction to you Lord. I do not want to stray. Allow me to be deaf to lied and have open eyes for fruits and works only. Please bless my family and friends in their trials and help them to know you Jesus! Please grant me the wisdom when reading your Word to understand and act justly. Please bless me with finding your career path for me and knowing the next way to go. Give me strength to hold onto you and to let go of trivial things and people (such as my issues with Chris) I pray for those who are spreading your news to be safe and for the hearts to melt of those in opposition they face. Please show me the way to becoming involved in these missions somehow and to communicate with others.

I pray for and beg for your will for me with Chris and my life path to be shown in a way I can clearly see and I will not question you. I will follow. Give me strength and faith to continue on your path as I am confused as to which way to go.


All these things I ask, pray and give thanks, in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ my Savior, Amen.

7/15/08
Thank you for keeping me safe & alive today and one more day to breathe. Thank you for caring for me and blessing me with a place to live, someone to talk to (Alicia) and the will to move forward. Thank you for opening your Word to me and for allowing me to learn from my mistakes! Please keep me close Jesus as I am approaching the end time.

Please guide my steps Jesus so I may walk inly to you in your direction. When my focus is not on you, I get lost and I am taken by evil. Please continue to bless me and put those in my life who who put you first and foremost in theirs. Help me to become more like you Lord so that I may inherit eternal life. Please bless my family and friends in their trying times. Please keep me from those "whose feet run to deception" and take from me "those who want to shed innocent blood". Help me to be strong and give me wisdom in determining right from wrong. Please put it in Paige's heart to be honest with me about her intentions with Chris.

Please help me to let go of my mistrust of Chris. I pray for them both to come know you Lord and follow your honest and just path. Please help Alicia gain the strength she needs for her situation. Please bless my mini-church women with the love they need, the wisdom to determine what is right and the faith in you to put you first in all things. Please bless my family in the death of my grandmother, comfort them in their grief, they need you. Let them be filled with your joy instead and be comforted. Thank you for loving me, for answering my prayers (Chris hasn't smoked in days and is trying to be kinder!) and giving me the strength to go on for one more day.

All these things I ask, pray and give thanks, in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ my Savior, Amen.

Letters to God May/June

Drop Weapons

Drop Weapons: Several soldiers who have returned from combat zones talk with the American News Project about what they say is the widespread practice of using "drop weapons" to cover up the killing of innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. We feature five veterans and current members of Iraq Veterans Against the War, plus retired Lieutenant Colonel Gary Solis, a Vietnam War veteran and legal scholar who taught "Law of War" at West Point.


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