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RE: Hello from here! - 3/20/2006 8:23:35 AM
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Blessed63
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I have been going thru a tough time this week with being accepted...by some of Bobby's family....I was hurt by what I feel was a betrayal by one of the family members in an effort to people please another family member any way this past week was tough for me....I posted this in my blog over at yahoo and I wanted to share it here also...
Nothing like being woke up at 3:00 am, cause HE needs to tell ya something!!!!!
There is a song that says, “YOU give joy that’s unspeakable and I like it yeah"……….
I don’t remember the rest of it just now even though I have heard it a thousand times on KLOVE. Here is the problem “we” (that would mean me) think in terms of if only…. if only I had this, if only this person would… if only “they” would do X, Y or Z, if only this person loved me, if only I was rich, if only I was prettier, if only I was skinny (I WISH!), if only I was successful…. I would be happy; I would have joy unspeakable…NOT!
That is not what real joy from the LORD is, hey it would be great to have all those things but even still without them it is possible to have real GODLY JOY! Real heart level joy is knowing that even in the worst of circumstances HE loves us, no matter what the surroundings or events currently in our life…HE loves us! Even when we have failed him and others, HE still loves us! Real eternal joy has nothing to do with our circumstances or who may or may not love us….true JOY has only one source…JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR!
1Thes 5:16-19
v16…. ”Rejoice always (always be joyful)”……one little verse that speaks volumes about how we should be as believers! Not always happy…happy is temporary, not always prefect… there was only ONE prefect and it ain’t us, not always holier than thou or thee…that is prideful, always joyful…cause our hope is in HIM and HIM alone!
v17…. “pray without ceasing” …… in everything seek HIM…HIS presence, HIS will, HIS desire for our life…SEEK HIM!
v18…. “in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you”….. YES, even in pain, even in crisis it is HIS will for us…maybe to teach or reach or change us but without a doubt HIS will for us!
v19… “Do not quench the Spirit”… do you think it was an accident that this verse is right behind the verse on joy and praying continually???? I think that when we whine and complain and do not keep our heart joy, we are quenching the Spirit, when we grumble against our “lot” in life we are quenching…when we let our emotions run our life and how we treat others, we are quenching….and I doubt very seriously if GOD is going to move through or work on behalf of someone who can’t even remember that HE is our source of REAL joy….as my pastor says all the time…Just a thought!
Dear LORD do you see in me anything that is quenching YOUR Spirit.....Remove it NOW PLEASE!
Nora
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RE: Hello from here! - 3/20/2006 11:53:20 AM
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Dear LORD do you see in me anything that is quenching YOUR Spirit.....Remove it NOW PLEASE!
AMEN! and DITTO!!!!!
((((((((((((((((((((Nora)))))))))))))))) I know how painful it can be with family members and such. It is so hard to not let it get to you and just know that the only opinion that matters is God's.
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RE: Hello from here! - 3/23/2006 4:18:34 PM
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That was a good post, Nora. I think I'm going to have to come back to it when I'm not at work and can copy parts of it to my palmtop.
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RE: Hello from here! - 3/23/2006 11:44:08 PM
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That was a good post, Nora. I think I'm going to have to come back to it when I'm not at work and can copy parts of it to my palmtop.
I am honored Maggie...while I don't have the gift of the written word as you do....sometimes HE just lays things on my heart that I feel I must share and this was one of those times!
Nora
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RE: Hello from here! - 3/24/2006 12:28:42 AM
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I posted this in another thread earlier this year....I don't remember where...but GOD really put it on my heart to post it here and in my blog at yahoo, maybe to remind me of where I came from!  ...so here is the story of NOV. 2004:
Letting Go of Control or the illusion of …
I almost died on Nov 29th 2004...by my own hand. When I awoke in the hospital I was mad! Mad at GOD for not letting me go, mad at the people in my life who had hurt me (although I choose them), mad at my family because they wanted me to stick around even though I so wanted to be gone from this world and all the emotional pain of living. I was alone a few days later and as I walked by the bathroom mirror I saw the most horrible site...this woman who had tried to do it her way and failed, this woman who was alone and without GOD (in my mind) and undone! Of course HE had not forsaken me I had forsaken HIM...Right then and there I understood that HIS way was the only way out of this mess I had made of my life. I finally understood that I had to submit all of me and not just the parts I wanted to. First I had to ask for HIS forgiveness then I had to forgive myself and also all "those" who had hurt me and I had several I had to ask for their forgiveness. My life is not nor ever will be the same again...I spent the first 8 years as a believer trying to work it my way and I have spent the last 16 months doing it HIS way...the last year & 4 months has been filled with peace and joy, through the tough and the easy...do I still fight the desire to control my life EVER DAY! BUT each time I just remember that poor woman in the mirror and I remember that I am not in charge AND don't need to be!
And what was meant to be the end..... ended up being the beginning of my real life! Thank YOU GOD for all the blessings YOU have given me!
Nora
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RE: Hello from here! - 3/24/2006 10:23:48 PM
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Thank you, Nora!!! The first 8 years! Wow, now I know that it's a constant struggle. I always get down on myself because I'm not where I think I should be in my walk. I think everything should be all hunky dory and not hard. NOT!! I'm learning that the troubles and struggles He gives to us are just to draw us closer to Him. I, too, have realized I have alot of forgiving to do also.
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RE: Hello from here! - 3/25/2006 9:36:41 AM
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Thank you, Nora!!! The first 8 years! Wow, now I know that it's a constant struggle. I always get down on myself because I'm not where I think I should be in my walk. I think everything should be all hunky dory and not hard. NOT!! I'm learning that the troubles and struggles He gives to us are just to draw us closer to Him. I, too, have realized I have alot of forgiving to do also.
HE is will always be there thru the tuff times.... and yes us letting go of our hurts and forgiving others is one of the ways we can start saying yes GOD and stop saying "but GOD"... (I heard this one time and I thought it was too funny)... and that is the problem, until we get our "butt" out of HIS way we won't have the joy and the peace and the life HE wants us to have....
SOOOOOOOO
GET YOUR "BUTT" OUT OF GOD"S WAY!   
Nora
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RE: Hello from here! - 3/27/2006 1:22:54 PM
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LOL, Nora!!! I'm trying! Not a great weekend.
I did get a lot of yard work done, though. And I bought 2 jalapeno pepper plants, some Slavia(?), a couple of Ranunculus, and some more seed for corn, carrots, and radishes. I planted the plants but not the seeds, we're supposed to get quite a bit of rain tonight and tomorrow so I thought it best to wait.
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RE: Hello from here! - 3/27/2006 3:02:31 PM
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(((((((((((((((Nora)))))))))))))))) God is so amazing. I hear ya! It's a lesson I'm plowing through constantly. Be still, be quiet. I've been meditating on 1Pet3:4....."but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious." It's hard.
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RE: Hello from here! - 3/27/2006 3:04:10 PM
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In search for peace..I have often babbbled a few spiritual blurbs to the Lord and questioned Do you hear me? Do you know what I am going through? Can you fix it?
For every question..the Lord responds in the same way YES!! I can do all things and I delight to do the impossible.
With each and every conquest and each and every mountian I scale, I learn that I am bulding a map in reverse. I am on a journey that I can only see where I have been, not where I am going. Having had said that, it is in the roads that I have traveled on, and the passes I have been through, that I can draw a map for others and tell them OH I have been there and here is a good way to go .
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RE: Hello from here! - 3/27/2006 3:06:31 PM
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Welcome TXstylist! Wow, that is good! Thank you.
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RE: Hello from here! - 3/27/2006 3:15:33 PM
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Love the hair pic! I am a hair stylist!! 
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RE: Hello from here! - 3/28/2006 10:18:52 AM
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Nora, I've had those moments of revelation before, too. You just want to stop everything and not mess it up.
TXstylist, it was crazy hair day at school. I still crack up every time I see that picture.
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RE: Hello from here! - 3/31/2006 3:26:31 PM
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Have a great weekend, Nora!
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RE: Hello from here! - 4/3/2006 10:27:33 AM
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I wanted to share this, I did one storm "thought" in the old place but lost it when we moved  OH well this one is way better anyway
Life is like a storm at times...we go to bed thinking everything is right in "our" world and we wake to find that in the night death and destruction has struck while we were unaware.... while we slept.
I awoke to find this morning that an awful storm struck very close to 3 of my grandchildren and that several were dead in the county in which my stepson, wife and their children live. So of course Pa and MaMa call to check up on them and THANK YOU FATHER, found that they were all fine! Which got me to thinking (not always a good thing ) about storms and sin....
Like storms.... sin starts as this innocent little wind that blows gently thru our lives and at first we enjoy the breeze and the smell of the wind and rain.... then out of no where the wind picks up, the rain comes in torrents and we have no control over the events surrounding the storm.....we seek cover and protection and wait out the storm, sometimes it passes with no damage other times it leaves a lot of destruction in it's wake....
Often sin starts as something appealing ... it is often something that in the beginning is a pleasant little breeze through our life.... it satisfies the flesh and we are like, WELL just a "little" won't hurt us! AHH! But sin is not going to let you just enjoy the early breeze, it wants all of you and soon it turns into a strong wind and torrents of rain in your life and you have lost control! When we realize that we have lost control we seek shelter and protection.... and HE answers EVERY TIME and forgives EVERY TIME.... BUT just like the storm sometimes there will be damage, and there is wreckage that we must deal with.... that is were most of us fail... we become bitter and are like well why didn't HE just fix it? HE did, we are forgiven.... BUT sometimes we have to do a little wreckage removal ourselves.... we want insta fix and sometimes the real lesson is in the clean up.....
I wondered why I was so easily lead around by sin and the enemy for the first 8 years of my walk with GOD... I was like, “WHAT IS THE DEAL? WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME...!” I got so bitter and angry that I almost died at my own hand... cause at the time everything I touched turned out wrong... relationships, jobs and you name it and it was messed up in my life.... After my suicide attempt GOD gave me the gift of seeing myself for what I really was without HIM... and truthfully it scared me to death.... I had lost everyone and everything at this point in my life, I had nothing.... the storm had come through and tore my life down to the foundation... and that is what HE really wanted although at the time I didn’t understand, see just like a house if the foundation (our belief system) is faulty everything we build upon it will be off and shaky and in danger... that was the sum of my life at that point.. BUT GOD saw the cracks in my foundation that I was unwilling to look at and let HIM fix…. The only way those foundation cracks were going to get repaired was if everything was blown away first… so the HE allowed the storms and HE allowed the pain and yes HE even allowed me to roll around in the mud for a while… I made the choice and HE cried til I finally understood… HE knew I would have to be completely broken before I would submit… stubbornness can be deadly let me tell ya!
HE showed me the cracks in my foundation, then HE set about asking me to fix some things and other things HE fixed cause no one else could but HIM... when the foundation was repaired and in order then and ONLY THEN... did HE start to rebuild me into the person HE wanted me to be... Just like when someone goes to rebuild a house or building after a storm… they will look to see if there is a way to make it stronger in hopes that the next storm can not knock it down sometimes the cost is higher than they want to pay but they know in the end it is worth the expense… HE asked a lot of me, the cost in some cases hurt very much, it was not an easy rebuild... Anyway along with the foundation repair... HE also rebuilt my life in ways that I thought would never happen…. I have been given the love of the dearest man in the world, I have restored relationships with my children and I got 4 more kids and 7 grandbabies (gifts from GOD they are…each and every one of them!) as a bonus! I am blessed with a home and new family, who even with the warts we all have are still pretty cool! I have this awesome relationship with HIM that I never thought I could have… Cause when the “breezes of life" start to blow around me… I remember this, I will never get it all right, I will never be perfect (none perfect but HIM)…so I turn it over to HIM and let HIM take care of it and I am protected and safe in HIS arms! GOD, our storm cellar thru the storms of life, How cool is that!!!!! 
Nora
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RE: Hello from here! - 4/3/2006 11:49:24 AM
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Oh my goodness, Nora. God is speaking directly to me through you. Thank you so much for sharing this.
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RE: Hello from here! - 4/3/2006 12:00:37 PM
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(((((((Diane)))))))
Sometimes HE uses the strangest things and people to reach down and help us! I am so privileged that today it was me HE used to talk with you!
LOVE YA GIRL! HANG IN THERE, IT WILL GET EASIER!
Nora
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RE: Hello from here! - 4/5/2006 11:37:58 AM
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Title: Strengthened through the Storms
Book: Faith Walk
Author: Woodrow Kroll, Tony Beckett
Program Date: December 31st, 1969
Web Page: http://www.backtothebible.org/devotions/print.php/faithwalk/95
1 Samuel 1-3, Luke 8:26-56
Key Verses: Luke 8:22-23
God sometimes leads us into difficult situations for our good and His glory. Do you believe that? Perhaps not, but keep it in mind as you look of the account of Jesus calming the storm.
He had put His disciples "in harm's way," so to speak. Jesus instructed them to go to the other side of the lake. Did He know there was a storm coming? Of course He did. As Warren Wiersbe points out, "It was a part of the day's curriculum." Jesus can use a storm to teach.
The disciples' reaction was normal. They despaired. "We're going to drown!" they cried. Sometimes the storms of life fill us with despair as well.
It was then that Jesus demonstrated His power. In Mark it is recorded that He said, "Quiet! Be still!" And it was (Mark 4:39). He has the power to calm the storms.
The result was a sense of awe on the part of the disciples. What Jesus had just done helped develop their faith as they began to see Him as more than a man. He is the God-man whom the winds and the waves obey.
It is the same for us at times. God deliberately leads us into difficult situations. We may despair, but it is in the storms that He can demonstrate His power. Our faith is strengthened as we see Jesus working in our lives through our difficulties.
Ask God to help you learn the lessons He has for you, even the ones taught through difficult situations.
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WOW! talk about follow up.... I had a devotion yesterday that was a follow up to the sotrm story also! I am just blown away! Ain't GOD so COOL!
Nora
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RE: Hello from here! - 4/6/2006 8:17:08 AM
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Blessed63
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I start my partime job today! I will be working for Hallmark, doing card displays in stores in my area... nothing big and no long hours... I don't a have a Wally World so it will be an in and out kinda deal in most places! Anyway it is a way for me to earn some extra spending money and more than anything get me out of the house for a few hours a week! 
Catch y'all later!
Nora
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RE: Hello from here! - 4/6/2006 1:42:08 PM
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(((((((((((Nora))))))))))) That sounds like a neat job! Have fun!!!
And......have you been reading my mind lately, or what?!?!?!?!?!?
Thanks for the mention of Elijah the other day. Last night I looked up that passage and I think it is soooo beautiful!!
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.....and yes our FATHER'S opinion really is the only one that matters! 
I have not said a word to them or about them to anyone and I am really lead to just keep my mouth firmly shut 
).......but I listen and keep quiet and last night at church I am really put to the test cause the afore mentioned family member brought Bobby’s mother and they are sitting one person away from me...... 
and I am like okay GOD YOU are really pushing it and I am suppose to keep quiet and not say a word or let on that I am still upset and that my feelings are still hurt?????? 
the first topic of the study is the true meaning of patience..."cheerful endurance thru it all, good and bad" 
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