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 1/8/14 11:54 PM |
| Anne | | The Wild West | |  |  |
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Good evening Dorcas! Everything is just great! Only 6 weeks or so to go and we are all ready to meet the newbie. Honestly, this pregnancy has zapped my energy and it takes everything I've got to get through school with the kids, fix meals and keep the house from looking like a complete disaster!  And how have you been? |
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| 12/5/13 8:56 AM |
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I suffered through post partum depression with our first. It is something I don't talk much about, but I did manage to "hide" it from everyone because I knew if someone found out what my day/night was like with this little baby, they would have taken him and committed me. It was a year of pure torture beyond human reason, every second of every day. God, and God alone, kept my son safe, kept myself safe, and somehow cleared away the crushing weight. So I know about hiding behind laughter. I thank God that HE knew about my hiding behind the laughter, too, and HE didn't leave me when I was powerless to do anything else! At the right time, He will take the burden; until then we cling to whatever He gives us to cling to. And when we lose our grip on reality, we find He was the One holding on the whole time anyway. He really does mean it when He said, "Never will I leave you nor forsake you." |
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| 12/4/13 8:51 AM |
| Anne | | The Wild West | | | |
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Good morning Christopher! I couldn't help but think of Jonah! It's the deepest, darkest moments when God often shines His light on us because at that moment He CAN illume us fully, without shadow, and all to His glory. I cannot imagine this cooks thoughts at being trapped, but I do pray that should you be feeling the same hopelessness, even though you aren't trapped under the weight of water, that you will continue, as he and Jonah did, to surrender yourself and thought moment by moment to Him who is our redeemer and protector, against ALL odds. You're in our prayers.Protect me, God, for I take refuge in You. I said to Yahweh, "You are my Lord; I have nothing good besides You.” (Psalms 16:1-2) This guy also had a much cleaner exit than Jonah...! |
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| 11/22/13 12:01 PM |
| Anne | | The Wild West | | | |
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Why, today, we homeschool our children: "Besides this, knowing the time, it is already the hour for you to wake up from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is nearly over, and the daylight is near, so let us discard the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us walk with decency, as in the daylight: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no plans to satisfy the fleshly desires." (Romans 13:11-14)Government school does not promote, endorse or educate under a single one of these guidelines in the latter, but provides more than ample opportunities to dabble and then plunge into the former. The point isn't whether or not children from Christian families can survive government education. It's whether they can be fit there to serve others in love. I would make the case that they absolutely cannot. It is NOT what your local school is set up to accomplish; the family is. God gave parents this job; not Ceasar. He holds the sword to protect and preserve a nation from criminals and nothing else. Why do we suddenly, after the ENTIRE history of the world being homeschooled, think we came up with something better in gov |
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| 11/19/13 5:31 PM |
| Anne | | The Wild West | | | |
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To clarify:
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. "(Galatians 5:22-26 KJV) |
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| 11/19/13 5:09 PM |
| Anne | | The Wild West | | | |
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Lisa, Christ spent most of His time healing, preaching and teaching, giving out truth to those who would hear as directed by the Holy Spirit; and while He never minced words and was direct without the fluff, He wasn't some argumentative loon either. He spoke what He spoke because He alone had the authority to do so. He was always in control, even in His anger. I am so puzzled at your view on who Christ is - first you seem to think Him some dour, unsmiling man of sorrow (with which He was obviously well acquainted) and now He is angry and confrontational? He gave His own creation marriage, a Husband above husbands, a hope, the promise of joy everlasting, children, peace which passes all understanding. He is to be reverenced as the God who is SLOW to anger and ABOUNDING in love! Maybe it would help to read Song of Solomon and the Psalms more often - they do not fit Him into a box but rather uncover a microcosm of His innumerable attributes - from wrath to intoxicating joy - and yes, FOR HIS OWN GLORY! And we can share in that joy because it makes Him happy when we are happy in Him! (His turning tables over wasn't a "come to Jesus" moment, either...) |
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| 11/16/13 2:08 PM |
| Anne | | The Wild West | | | |
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SF, I was contemplating this the other day, feeling rather discontent with things at the moment, when my oldest asked why I was sad. In those moments, we get to choose the way of God: joy and gratitude for what we have, even on the fifth glass of spilled milk, in as many minutes... The Spirit I believe longs to make us happy not because of some self-gratification for ourselves, but because I believe God IS joy, laughter, love and thrilling, while still being the God to be feared, held in reverence and regarded in awe at every moment."Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms." (James 5:13) |
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