How was your day?

[Wynona]

Tears of joy today.

Just thinking about how good God is.

 

[thelord's_pearl]

I am happy/glad about me having exercised yesterday night at least and today in the morning again. My body really needs it.

 

[Wynona]

Plenty of rest time with chores in between. Not bad.

 

[Wynona]

It's been a good Saturday. Love couple time and bringing dessert and treats to our place.

Our air conditioning unit is off and draining outside. The one in the nursery will do for now.

 

[Wynona]

My scrapbooking stuff is all put up and ready to use. But I'm having a creativity block.

 

[Wynona]

Sleep was iffy. Feeling tired again. Going to a church event out of social obligation. At least there will be free food there.

 

[Raccoon1010]

I'm really not feeling well today, sort of been off the forum today. I finished another break thru in my project so I'm happy, just not feeling well, aaarrrgggghhhh.

 

[Raccoon1010]

There are a couple of reasons why I stopped posting pictures of myself online. I'm always scared that someone would take the picture and do some identity thing to me. Get me into some kind of trouble. Every 5 years the school I work for requires that I have a background check. I don't even work with kids. They all went home by the time I start cleaning.

Yes FaceBook is full of suposed good looking women with 3 pictures in their page that are stolen pictures from other people. They use false identies and then hit you up for money. My brother in law, before he died, fell for it one time, he actually called the number he was given and instead of it being a hot girl it was someone from south america, a guy. I had a good laugh at that one. He was a character my brother in law.

 

[Nancy]

Today was a very nice day for me. I drove to a different County in pouring rain, lolo...that did not bother me. Went to a very dear friend's house, and we had a lady's day with 4 others from H.S. and it was a wonderful visit! Realtor texted me with another property, minutes from my sister and niece and 2 nephews! - will be looking at two properties tomorrow. Came home, fed the dogs, went through a whole filing cabinet (short one) I think I must have saved ALL of my paystubs since 1974!!! and of course, back then they put the social right out there. Was struggling to take it to the curb, for the scrappers when one was right out front grabbing some metal from across the street, I said to wait and, they came right to my porch and walked it away, YAY!

God sure does have perfect timing when we leave our issues at the foot of The Cross, Amen, and Amen!

 

[Raccoon1010]

I have medical problems. Stomach problems is one of the main reasons I don't go to church anymore. Being in public makes me uncomfortable. I'm also schizophrenic which doesn't help. I do watch daily online church and it greatly helps me I think. I can't give up church though entirely. I like God and want to make him as happy with me as I can. I have my problems but I do OK perhaps given the trials I have.

 

[Lambano]

How was my day? All kinds of tech issues with the equipment at church, I went for a bike ride and got a flat tire out in the middle of nowhere, and my granddaughter got into a car accident. (Nobody hurt, but she's really shook up.)

In this world you will have troubles, but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. - Jesus

 

[Wynona]

I'm working on life's story about why I feel the way I do, and why I don't go to Church anymore. I'm on another Christian site that is attacking me for not going to church. Anyways my story is going on 3 pages and it's just the rough draft.

My husband and I struggle with finding a church too. We go to his parents church on and off but it's never a matter of him feeling a keen sense of fellowship or inspiration there.

If you've tried again and again, only to be disappointed, I don't really blame you for not wanting to go.

 

[Wynona]

On the forums they kept throwing bible verses at me and calling me selfish, telling me to repent.

There are more verses about not associating with false brethren than the one verse about not forsaking the assembly. I remember you explaining that the local churches didn't treat you and your family right so they are guilty of partiality.

All you can do is be open to God leading you to a good church. But no, I don't see church non-attendance as a sin unto death.

 

[Wynona]

@Wynona We have prayed about it for years, and visited different places. Even stayed in those places for a couple of years, and it just isn't happening. We feel sad about it.

For a short time you all can see what I look like. I felt like I had to make these pictures so that at least sometimes people online can know what I look like.

Hi brother, thanks for the smile!!

Would you ever consider putting your face on your avatar?

I understand if the answer is no. I personally enjoy it because people have a tendency to treat women better, even online.

 

[Wynona]

I'm not sure what you mean by "treat women better". I would love it if you would expand on what you mean by that.

I feel that my avatar and my username works well together.

I'm not a spring chicken to the internet, and I've been through somethings. Scary things. That sometimes I feel very insecure about putting my face online just any oh where.

Just online in this forum, I believe there are more times when I'm able to disagree with male posters very strongly but not get personally attacked as a result. Many men are raised to treat women more gently and I see it in the tone of their responses.

There is a new insult called "mansplaining" that's used when men assume they know better and have to explain something to a woman.

My belief is that men don't really do this maliciously. It was Adam's job to explain creation and God's commands to Eve. I just have a theory that men have it in their nature to explain things to women and help them, but not necessarily because they see us as inferior.

As a side note, I believe men are created by God to lead and if they ever encounter a woman who simply listens and is influenced by their ideas, it can be kind of intoxicating for them.

But yeah, the tone of online interaction is definitely more gentle when people know I'm a woman and there's the occasional flirt around as well.

Being a feminine woman gives you powers. Mainly in the sense that you get more accomodation and even flirtation from behavior that would get you ignored or harassed if you were a man.

Society often doesn't care nearly as much if men are lonely. As a woman, if I project loneliness or even hint at it, I am almost guaranteed attention even if its just from opportunistic predatory men.

There are plenty more examples of society here in the west giving women better treatment. I think this is mostly a positive thing. But I figured Id just narrow it down to online.

 

[amigo de christo]

That's what I've been doing for over a week now...little by little. Today The Lord is sending me some help with things I can no longer do, one of my sisters is coming to help! Hoping to get it listed by next week.
Happy decluttering sister!
xo

If , LORD willing you find a place in the country , dont forget to have a tiny shack or a lean too tent put on it .
I aint picky either sister . I can live in a ghetto ,or a cave , but so long as i have the LORD i will always have ALL that i need .
CAUSE THE LORD IS ALL WE NEED . now lift those hands and let the LORD be praised .

 

[amigo de christo]

I'm really not feeling well today, sort of been off the forum today. I finished another break thru in my project so I'm happy, just not feeling well, aaarrrgggghhhh.

Then turn the praise music on and let the GLORIOUS LORD be praised . THE JOY of the LORD is our strength
and the salvation of the LORD our joy . Raise those hands and let the LORD be praised .

 

[Wynona]

Thank you for taking the time to write that. I need to get off of here and do some back up and then take a break from screen time..

I'm not a woman, so I don't know why putting my picture up for a profile picture would help me any. People at school saw me and did terrible things to me.

You guys get to read some of my life story. I'm still working on it. So it's going to sound a bit rough anyways. But this is just the part that sorta illustrates what I'm talking about.

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During the early years, I was growing up in the Missionary Church, and through the years of my Dad’s Friday Night Bible study, I had one friend that I would only get to see on Friday and Sunday. He was the son of the couple that hosted the Friday Night Bible study. We were around each other in School some, but a separation happened at the end of kindergarten. He went on to first grade, and I went to readiness. This put him a grade ahead of me, which continued our whole lives. Also his parents had money so as soon as He got through Elementary School, they sent him to a private Christian school. I think this is important information because by the time I was in the 5th grade, which was the last year I was at this Missionary Church, I no longer had any friends there. I was put in a very small Sunday School class of me and 4 other boys. 2 of them caused trouble for me and and this other guy. I don’t remember them messing with the son of the teacher. But they would disrupt the class and tie my shoe laces to the table. It’s important to understand what kind of people they were back then because as a junior in high school I took a vocational class at a career center. It was there I re met one of those two kids and he had become a self proclaimed agnostic and would use all kinds of bad words, and of course disrupt things. I also learned that his friend also dropped out of church, that was other boy who helped pick on me, left church and started selling drugs to kids. The third guy, to whom go picked on too, only sorta liked me. Sometimes he would act like a friend and then switch around. I don’t want to make this an entire story about Him but there is much I could tell. The last time few years, after High School, I was around him, He had gotten married and divorced. Plus He left the Church too, and joined a secret society.

During my school years, I didn’t have friends at school. Most were druggies and bullies. Almost all without exception were sexually immoral. Some got their girlfriends pregnant.

During my elementary school years things were just tolerable. There was always someone that wanted to beat up somebody else. I wasn’t like this and eventually they wanted to beat me up too. Staying out of it during the elementary school years wasn’t too hard, but I felt out of place. 5th grade things started to get worse. 6th grade took me to a whole new level of abuse. I got more then just picked on, they started calling me names, tripping me in the hallways, throwing and shooting things at me, hitting me in the head with books. And of course there were those that wanted to started a fight with me. At least the tripping in the hallways, and the throwing and shooting things kinda died down, but I continued to be miss treated. People would treat me like I was worthless, and those that still talked to me usually just wanted to either tempt me with drugs or try and start a fight with me. By the time I graduated High School, my anxiety got so high that I finally had a nervous breakdown. It took a month of medications to settle my body down. It took years to finally get me as calm as I am now.

I don't want to jump to conclusions but I hope this means you are warming up to us here at CB.

I pray we can be like Jesus to you.

 

[Cassandra]

I think I must have saved ALL of my paystubs since 1974!!!

'Cause you NEVER know when the IRS will come a knockin'!

 

[Nancy]

To someone like me, this is a fascinating hobby. One has to be very precise in everything! Think of the patience it must take to just master a take off and a landing.
Even though AlwaysOnAJourney explains certain things like when I asked him why the rear wheels seemed so small. Gotta start somewhere!