Li, thanks for calling Pink for me, with her working I could NEVER get a hold of her. Z, I wish I could've called you back, we'll talk soon.
My mom put it like this, we need to accept whatever comes from God. Like a parent and a his child. What kind of parent only give his child sweets to eat? Ya know? They give us veggies to, as much as we hate it, we must eat them or we will become such WEAK people! In a very real sense. Same with our Heavenly Father, He give us good and bad and the bad is not bad to Him, it is FOR US to be happy and rejoice and take it with trust and grace and say, Yes Father, I will yield and surrender all. And I've had to! I've had to give my dad to God, and I'm still not completetly there yet. I still hold onto dad, not wanting to let go. If I don;t though I could SO get in the way of what God needs to do to or for him. But if we don't accept the "veggies" of our Chirstian life, we will become weak and cold Christians. The trials make us strong.
Another friend put it like this, it we focus only and SO hard on God that love and peace will spill over onto everything else and it will all drown in HIM. Think of it like a cup (acuppa ;-), the more we focus on God and it pours out more love and grace and peace, the more that will overflow over and out onto the table of our troubles. Ya know? make sense?
It sounds so simply, and don't think for a sec that I've mastered it all. I haven't. I still lay awake at nite, crying and crying. What I would give to go back to what I was before all this. Sheesh.
Thank you both for your love and support. I love you both. ttyl
My mom put it like this, we need to accept whatever comes from God. Like a parent and a his child. What kind of parent only give his child sweets to eat? Ya know? They give us veggies to, as much as we hate it, we must eat them or we will become such WEAK people! In a very real sense. Same with our Heavenly Father, He give us good and bad and the bad is not bad to Him, it is FOR US to be happy and rejoice and take it with trust and grace and say, Yes Father, I will yield and surrender all. And I've had to! I've had to give my dad to God, and I'm still not completetly there yet. I still hold onto dad, not wanting to let go. If I don;t though I could SO get in the way of what God needs to do to or for him. But if we don't accept the "veggies" of our Chirstian life, we will become weak and cold Christians. The trials make us strong.
Another friend put it like this, it we focus only and SO hard on God that love and peace will spill over onto everything else and it will all drown in HIM. Think of it like a cup (acuppa ;-), the more we focus on God and it pours out more love and grace and peace, the more that will overflow over and out onto the table of our troubles. Ya know? make sense?
It sounds so simply, and don't think for a sec that I've mastered it all. I haven't. I still lay awake at nite, crying and crying. What I would give to go back to what I was before all this. Sheesh.
Thank you both for your love and support. I love you both. ttyl
