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It's so hard as a parent when your adult child decides to follow a destructive path away from the Lord, and in order to justify themselves degrade, humiliate, and disrespect the parents. I am so disheartened. Doesn't the bible talk about disobedient children? Doesn't it warn those children that they may have a short life? Doesn't it caution them with a clear understanding? Today, I am grieving for all of the Godly parents who raised their children in a home knowing the love of Jesus, whose children have chosen to spit in the face of everything that the Lord had to give them, and have decided to walk in a path of their own. We are all individuals with a choice. We all stand before the Lord alone. We each have the responsibility to either accept Jesus or reject him.
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A year ago, we left a fellowship that we had been at for quite some time. We, well mainly me, had some issues that I needed to deal with. We chose a very small congregation where everyone knew each other, and the Pastor was young, but very knowledgeable. The Lord led me to a wonderful lady who was a counselor, and she and I began sessions. I really can't tell you how much I looked forward to seeing her each week, and what it slowly did to my spirit. I guess I had so much "baggage" that I carried around with me that I was blinded to the fact. She helped me bring it out into the open and then resolve it. After awhile, she told me that she didn't need to see me anymore, because all my issues had been resolved. Oh I'm not talking about daily life, like finances and other such stresses. I'm talking about those things that stay hidden deep within your heart that you need to bring out and expose in order to change you.
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Right now, I feel a peace about things. So many subtle changes. For over a year, we were in some kind of transition, and now looking back we can see a purpose for it. It can be hard to make changes and move to a whole new area, but change is good. |
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Summers almost gone and school is about to start soon. I just don't know where the time went. Housing values are way, way down. Prices of goods are skyrocketing, but the price of gas went down a bit. I think it's about $3.57 a gallon right now. That's a big difference from a few months ago when everyone thought it was going to hit $4.00 a gallon. Funny thing, property values went down, and yet our taxes went up. Go figure.
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