Recent content by Roidecoeur78

Sorry, but this all sounds like it originated in, and then snowballed from, desiring and seeking some temporary person, place, or thing, more than desiring and seeking to know, love, and serve your creator. Sometimes, not always, children of either gender that are left in a dad-less situation...

God loves the poor, children, the broken-hearted, the poor in spirit(meek), the burdened, the humble, and the otherwise weak and vulnerable, because they are the ones that most rely on, and are most thankful for, His love and mercy. "But you have dishonored the poor. Are not the rich the ones...

Vincent of Saragossa - Wikipedia Because he endured: "His outspoken manner so angered the governor that Vincent was inflicted every sort of torture on him. He was stretched on the rack and his flesh torn with iron hooks. Then his wounds were rubbed with salt and he was burned alive upon a...

Actually, since emotions are just extensions of bodily instincts that have been reified over millennia, I would assert that anyone relying on being emotional as an indication of being in communion with the eternally true and living God are conflating something that is primal with the spiritual...

Yes, waiting can be the most difficult discipline to develop a knack for. Not being a woman, I can only empathize with what I've heard and observed about the female biological clock; and the overwhelming impulses it is the source of, especially as a woman approaches the age of 30. I imagine the...

It has, as a business and for the most part, become little more than what the Pharisees and Sadducees practiced, but additionally based off of the new testament. A collection of people claiming their own righteousness for worshiping their religion and opinion of themselves, while ignoring the...

This forum doesn't give you the option of sending PMs or starting threads or a blog until you've posted a minimal number of comments(I think 20) and gotten 5 positive ratings. I just rated your post so you should have the 5 required to unlock those features now. I've also been struggling hard...

Considering Jesus included the Sanhedrin as children of the devil, generally speaking, anyone that believes or says they are in right relation to God just because they say so, by their own authority, also fall into the "devil's children" category. Anyone that chooses to pursue, live for, and...

Good for you. If you're seeking to obey and draw near to God there is no wrong decision you can make. Even if you should lose/give up every thing the world might have to offer, it would still be the right decision to obey and draw near to your Creator. Everything in the world is going to go...

Thanks for the testimony. I can't remember how many times I have taken the "easy" way out, just because i could find an personal reason to rationalize and justify it. It's difficult to resist the urge to pursue immediate gratification or relief from struggle, but it is greatly rewarded when done...

So you admit seeing a pinpoint of red twinkling light in a sky filled with countless other twinkles, and to believing it is what you were told from other sources it is. Or have you been there and actually seen it, smelled it, touched it, and experienced what it is first-hand? I'd say you are a...

You're welcome, and I'm sure you do care; but maybe too much and not in a healthy way, just like you said. Because it hurts to care sometimes, and especially when we cannot be in control of this world and what we or others must go through in it. But true and selfless love relieves suffering...

1. This is unlikely to be love, but most likely to be infatuation, and has become like a drug withdrawal episode for you. It sounds that you have little or no experience in this area, but are trying to speed it along. That's no reason to give yourself away in the fear that you won't have another...

Scared that you have turned this person, or being with him, into an idol? Maybe there is something to fear there, renounce such a desire and have peace.

Everything's going to be okay, sometimes you just have to wait.