Entries for September 8, 2011

1. Tout (or flaunt) your prolonged sessions of prayer, implying that this has authoritative weight.
2. Tout your frequency of praying on the contested issue, implying that this has authoritative weight.
3. Tout that the contested topic arose in your regular Scripture reading (coinciding with a meeting on that very topic on that very same day) and suggestively intimate that this constitutes illumination from God . . . favoring your position.
4. Tout your distinguished and influential friends, implying

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Dexterous Ehud

Today is the first day of the rest of my life. God's got plans for me and I don't want to limit Him any more. It's time to leave the ugliness behind me. It's time to leave to those who have treated me wrongly the responsibility that they will have to give an account to God for the things that they have done. I don't claim responsibility for anyone else's mess besides my own any longer. I won't be a garbage bag to be dumped on any longer. I won't carry another person's baggage and break my...

GodsChild77

tteague81

It's been a few months now and still no answer from God. Have I done something so very wrong that God is ignoring me? Does He still love me? I really do love God so very much and I spend so much time talking to him. Why does He distance Himself from me?

Karenm

Bit of a mixed bag today. Stepson and partner have gotten themselves a flat (apartment) up in Glasgow. They have been staying with us all summer, but are moving out, and into the flat, today(I love them both dearly but the house has been a chaotic tip all summer)

So they have hired a van and Laura is driving them up there today, and then coming back down with the van tomorrow. So up early this morning to go get that picked up at 7.30am, got it all packed and saw them...

Andy Broadley