Proud of you lovely lady! This made me sad though. I’m sorry you had to spend so many years with this nightmare of a worldview. So thankful the Lord is showing you another way and how much he loves you. ❤️
Thank you! It was so insidious I didn't really know it was there, if that makes sense? The Lord revealed it in His time when He knew I'd be ready to handle it. That is why I think those of us who find God later in life have such a strong fire because we know the alternative. I appreciate you friend!
Hi Daniel. Such a exquisite outpouring. This is a beautiful piece. I too offer my condolences for all you have suffered in life. Yet now can praise God that you have been made free, and more whole in your adult life.
I'd only like to add one additional view of suffering in our lives, sometimes as it visits us for many decades.
Consider when Jesus healed the paralytic who sat against the wall of the temple for thirty years. After Jesus healed him the people asked Jesus if the man suffered from being crippled for so long, thirty years, because of his sins or the sins of his parents. Jesus said no, he was not in that condition for anything wrong he or his parents had done, but so that God would be glorified in Jesus' healing of him!
This story invites us to depersonalize our sufferings, and to free us of unforgiveness of people who may have played a part in it. The purpose, as is all purpose in our lives, it that God be Glorified in the healing of the suffering and the glory of the restoration of each of us individually... to return to the wholeness of heart, soul, mind, and body that God created in us, and which we return back to Him in loving God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength as is the first and greatest commandment.
You are a living glory to God! That's quite something, for sure.
I love this. It’s so honest.
Thank you so much for reading! I'm glad it spoke to you :)
You say this very well, also with what you don't say out loud ...
... they only had that power in your life because of how you perceived yourself.
Once you found your identity in God you did not need what they offered any more to give your life meaning.
Thanks for sharing.
That is so very true! You're right, as my identity in Christ gets stronger the other holds weaken. Thank you for reading and sharing your insight.
Proud of you lovely lady! This made me sad though. I’m sorry you had to spend so many years with this nightmare of a worldview. So thankful the Lord is showing you another way and how much he loves you. ❤️
Thank you! It was so insidious I didn't really know it was there, if that makes sense? The Lord revealed it in His time when He knew I'd be ready to handle it. That is why I think those of us who find God later in life have such a strong fire because we know the alternative. I appreciate you friend!
It makes sense. We are blind to so much until the Lord opens our eyes. May He always keep that beautiful fire burning!
"I once was blind, but now I see," hits on so many levels doesn't it? Thank you so much! ((hugs))
Hi Daniel. Such a exquisite outpouring. This is a beautiful piece. I too offer my condolences for all you have suffered in life. Yet now can praise God that you have been made free, and more whole in your adult life.
I'd only like to add one additional view of suffering in our lives, sometimes as it visits us for many decades.
Consider when Jesus healed the paralytic who sat against the wall of the temple for thirty years. After Jesus healed him the people asked Jesus if the man suffered from being crippled for so long, thirty years, because of his sins or the sins of his parents. Jesus said no, he was not in that condition for anything wrong he or his parents had done, but so that God would be glorified in Jesus' healing of him!
This story invites us to depersonalize our sufferings, and to free us of unforgiveness of people who may have played a part in it. The purpose, as is all purpose in our lives, it that God be Glorified in the healing of the suffering and the glory of the restoration of each of us individually... to return to the wholeness of heart, soul, mind, and body that God created in us, and which we return back to Him in loving God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength as is the first and greatest commandment.
You are a living glory to God! That's quite something, for sure.
Peace and blessings to you!
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Amen, and amen!
Well done, Daniela.
God always gets the final word.