justmae
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Post by justmae on Jan 23, 2015 13:08:06 GMT -5
He showed me how ungrateful I can be, that I am a whiner, and not as always as loving as I can be. CONVICTED!!
I have issues with a coworker. He loves her. I need compassion and to pray. I may not agree or even like her, but I need to love her. Not easy.
I whine too much about having to work. Another coworker talked about her stressful mornings of school, daycare, leaving crying kids in someone else's care so she can get to work. I am thankful God allowed me to always be home. I may work now but I had 16 years at home. Yes, I transcribed but I was home.
Micah 6: 8 comes to mind.
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BC
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"For all Your goodness I will keep on singing, ten thousand reasons for my heart to find."
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Post by BC on Jan 23, 2015 18:00:01 GMT -5
Oooh, I like that verse too. I had to look it up to see which one it was.
(((( G ))) 
I'm looking forward to seeing the replies to your question. I love it when women learn from each other.  We have so much to learn from each other...the things that God is doing in our individual lives, aren't just ours...they belong to us all, and we're better/stronger when we share...
One of the things that God is speaking to me lately is just in being flexible. Not in terms of actually being flexible, b/c - with teens going every-which-way it's impossible not to *be* flexible. But, in terms of having a heart of flexibility. He's growing me - helping me to accept the changes in seasons, and the kids' schedules, and whatnot. I've always had to deal with it, so that wasn't the issue (b/c I wouldn't hold them back out of my own selfishness or anything), but I've never been good at allowing it to be well with my soul. These seasons change so quickly, and I'm a girl who likes her closure. The seasons of older-children don't really give you a lot of warning before one ends and another begins. In my heart, I've wanted to hang onto the season of life where all of my kids are home for supper every night, and I can make family plans w/o having to plan months in advance, so that everyone can be there, etc.
Well, God's good, and He's being merciful to me - giving me the flexibility of heart that makes this forced flexibility of schedule bearable.
If that made any sense to anyone. 
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Post by mamamunchkin on Jan 23, 2015 20:32:00 GMT -5
That I need to give so much more grace. That I am still so judge mental even though I've come a long way. That I have so much further to go.
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Post by tammyof3 on Jan 24, 2015 0:49:28 GMT -5
God is reminding me of the time I walked in my life that was so dark but I heard from God so clearly what to do and Jeremiah 29:11 became my life's verse. Now I am in a season of my life where God is telling me He has the circumstance taken care of but do I trust Him to wait for His timing. These events now "stung" a little bit more as I do not understand but I know He keeps telling me "Do you trust Me!?" I know God has a plan! He has it! He can work all things to my good!!! But..... man why is it so hard to just be still and KNOW He is going to work it for my good. It seems crazy that I want to fix it but man do I LOL. I am waiting for God  I am excited as I know He has a Good Year planned this year! |
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erinjo
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His steadfast love is better than life!
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Post by erinjo on Jan 24, 2015 10:03:03 GMT -5
I am so proud. Just so, so prideful. And it shows itself in my unwillingness to ask for help when I need it. I want to be vulnerable and open-- on my terms.
God doesn't often work on my terms. LOL
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yakky
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Post by yakky on Jan 24, 2015 22:40:54 GMT -5
Hmm... I'm in a season of change. It's my word of the year (not by my choosing... God is quite persistent!). There are so many facets to this word. He's given me some areas/ideas for change but I'm sure that he is going to reveal even more during the year. God is going to do a change IN me, and AROUND me, and THROUGH me. He's telling me that change is going to painful but rewarding... uncomfortable but worth it. His change, the one that he wants to accomplish is only because he knows it's what's best for me. He wants the ability to change my goals, my desires, my attitudes, my dreams even... as HE wants to.... knowing that He will then sustain me to meet them.
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lambs
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Post by lambs on Jan 26, 2015 14:29:00 GMT -5
God continues to show me my sinful nature. Pride. Selfishness. It's all there. He continues to be gentle while showing me that I'm no better than someone that doesn't know Him. In fact, I'm worse because I DO know Him. He continues to help me see good in others, even when there's no good to be seen.
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Post by kidsandpets on Jan 26, 2015 14:55:45 GMT -5
trust, trust and more trust - not in the "big" (aka eternal) things but in the day to day life of wordly uncertainty. I was awake about 2:00 in the morning last night. In the middle of the night, God reminded me of a memory of my horse. Abner used to do what we called his "dead horse act" - he would stretch out flat on his side for a nap and more than once was mistaken for dead by someone passing by on the road. In my half-awake state as I thought about that memory last night, I felt like God spoke two things to me. That all is not lost, even when it appears to be so. And that there is life in what appears to be lifeless. I guess God is still using that horse of mine to teach me.  And I know that his illustration through a memory of Abner is true. |
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We have so much to learn from each other...the things that God is doing in our individual lives, aren't just ours...they belong to us all, and we're better/stronger when we share... 
I am excited as I know He has a Good Year planned this year!
