By: Michael W. Thornton
Oh, the joy of ringing bells,
The crying noise of a baby tells,
That Christmas time is finally here
Old Saint Nick is drawing near.
If you don't like to go shopping,
And all that mall hopping,
There is hope for you yet,
On the internet.
For the World Wide Web is a guiding light,
It is always there for you even at midnight.
So if you do not like shopping anywhere,
Why not go shopping in your underwear!
Whatever Lord… yeah that is hard to say and mean it, but I do. Yes, I have been facing a lot of pain lately and heartache, but I am giving it all over to God. He can handle things much better than I can. And the good news is that the battle is not mine, It is God's and he will win the battle. If I tried fighting it still, I'd lose in the end, but by giving it over to God, I have already won. Yes, it still hurts, even Jesus hurt after he gave over his future to the Father, but he knew the battle was already won and so do I. God, I give all to you and know there is peace in your
God, I know being offended is a choice that we make. Yes, someone may do or say something bad to or about us, and that is an offense, but if we react wrongly to that offense, we are offended, and therefore wrong. I know that sounds weird, but it is true, if we choose not to be offended, we live in the grace of God and you will take care of things when we are wronged. But if we choose to be offended by the wrongdoings of others, we take actions that cause more trouble in the long term. Our best bet is to choose to let things go, and allow you to avenge our wrongdoers. Yes it may be hard to do because our natural tendency is to get even with those that harm us.
Lord, I have to say that even though it is hard to do, I forgive the person that hurt me, even though they could not tell me themselves… I also release my right to anger towards them. God, help me to live in your light, more and more. Amen
God I feel like such a loser. Why do I feel like this? Because the one that I thought would never hurt me, because she knew the hurt I had been through… caused me the worse pain ever. The pain of being lied to. Gee, it hurts and it has caused me to dislike – even maybe hate her for what she did. It is so heartbreaking to be betrayed and I do not like her. I know I should not have these thoughts towards her, but I do… in fact, I feel so mad, I want to do stupid things… maybe even evil things to make her pay for wronging me. Yes, I know we should love one another, but right now I cannot love her because she is so wrong for doing what she did to me. I trusted her so much, I guess that is not right to trust others with all of our hearts.
I also know I should love her as a Christian, but right now it is honestly hard to do because I have so much dislike for what she did and apparently said about things. Like for one, why does she think she does not owe me the truth? After all, I was with her during some of the hardest times in life. It is almost like she is a totally different person than I thought I knew? What is wrong here?
God, as I deal with this pain, help keep me sane… I know what she did was wrong, but I do not need to lose my mind due to her wrongs…
What is it with me? Why did someone who I thought I knew would choose to deliberately lie to me about our relationship? Why would they not tell me that they wanted other things? Why not just straight talk with me – instead of what they did? Especially since this person knew that I was not going to take this lightly from someone else. Why not be true to me? I feel so used, so much like they may never have truly loved me… this sucks to feel this way! All I want to know is why they decided it would be better to let me live under the impression of a lie, than to tell me the truth themselves? Yes it still hurts to know that someone I thought I trusted to be a true person, would turn around and lie to me after all the stuff that I dealt with before. But I would have much rather known it before from them, then to be told by someone else to not contact that person again. Geesh, why be so afraid to tell me the truth that you use another person to deliver the news to me. Had you not realized that I could probably have handled the truth from you a whole lot better than to know that you had let me live under a false impression for so long?
I feel now that there may be no one I can trust again to be truthful to me…
Well the people have spoken in America and we have a new President. A first! It is the first time America has elected a person who is of not of white skin, and who is like Bill Clinton, Young and Energetic. Some people may not be happy about Obama being the new president, but I for one can see a person who is not afraid of change. He also has peace and courage in the way he delivers his speeches, and he seems to reach out to all people. Yes, he may not be the typical leader that we have had before, but that might be good. We have been facing crises lately that require someone with new ideas, someone that might be able to do things the right way, rather than the way we have "ALWAYS" done it. Change is good!
Yes, there will be some people out there that say because he is "black" or worse yet – the "N" word, that he will not lead America the way it should be lead. To those people I say, SHUT UP! Let us not be divided, but UNITED. It is time that we forget about what people look like on the outside, and start looking at them as a person equal to one another. I do not think it matters as to outside appearances, as much as what the words a person says, or does. Skin tone, ability or disability, nationality, and many other factors are wrong ways to use when judging a person's character. Words that are said tell the truth of a person. It is time that we live based on the words people say, and not on their looks. Judge not on what a person does, but you can tell a lot of a person by their words and character.
So America has spoken and come January 20, 2009 12 Noon EST, we will have President Barack Obama leading us for the next four years. It will be a time when we will be tested and tried to see what he is made of, unfortunately, it will also be a time when some people in our country will act stupid and say things and maybe do things like they did back in the 1950's and 1960's. People it is time to get over it let us live as our name implies, the United States of America. Let us be of one accord, and let us allow our leader to lead us. Also, let us do as we ALWAYS do for any other president and PRAY for him. Now is not the time to be ignorant. Respect one another, and love our brothers.
I have so many questions swirling in my mind right, none of which can be easily answered without knowing the truth. Yet, life does move on and so should I. Yes, I did learn a lot from this situation, and yes, I am happy that I am able to get over things with a biblical perspective of the things that have happened, but I just have the questions of why they could not have been more truthful and honest to me? Did they feel that I could not handle the truth? I know in the past I had problems dealing with truth, but have since learned that whatever happens in my life that is hurtful, I can give it over to God and let him deal with the pain. It is much easier to allow him to work it out and turn our pains and sorrows into gladness, than it is to hold onto them and have them eat out our flesh and cause us to sin against God. So what I am trying to say is that I had much rather deal with the pains of truth, than to have lies try to eat at me. Still I know how to handle the lies, yet truth sets us free from the voices of the father of lies.
So now I move on – refreshed in God, knowing that he is in charge, knowing that if I ever get to the truth of the matter, I will be ok, and if I never get the truth, that is ok too. No matter what, I trust in the one who is TRUTH and he will keep me from traps of Satan when I keep my eyes on him!
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Jesus is in control!
