What if I am different because he messed up - or because my mum messed up when she was pregnant with me (cigarettes and alcohol). So what if I am not someone special, but rather a very messed up person with no hope for the future?
The General Mental Health Forum is now a Read Only Forum. As we had two large areas making it difficult for many to find, we decided to combine the Mental Health & the Recovery sections of the forum into Mental Health & Recovery as a whole. Physical Health still remains as it's own area within the entire Recovery area.
If you are having struggles, need support in a particular area that you aren't finding a specific recovery area forum, you may find the General Struggles forum a great place to post. Any any that is related to emotions, self-esteem, insomnia, anger, relationship dynamics due to mental health and recovery and other issues that don't fit better in another forum would be examples of topics that might go there.
If you have spiritual issues related to a mental health and recovery issue, please use the Recovery Related Spiritual Advice forum. This forum is designed to be like Christian Advice, only for recovery type of issues. Recovery being like a family in many ways, allows us to support one another together. May you be blessed today and each day.
Kristen.NewCreation and FreeinChrist
God doesn't look at you as if you are messed up or less than someone else, or anything like that, at all. You're so precious in His sight.
I believe, He is so proud of you, Him knowing more than anyone, how things are difficult for you, and why, and He sees you hanging on, going through all. Perhaps not really how you wished you could, at times, but you're, like, you try. He's so proud of your trying
I am also convinced that it is not so much what we do in this life, but what we do with what we are given.
I am convinced that God did not stuff up.
Man stuffed up, and the result is what we call living in a fallen world.
I am also convinced that it is not so much what we do in this life, but what we do with what we are given. Those of us who struggle day by day may find a greater reward in heaven, and a more immediate knowledge of what Christ's suffering cost him, what our salvation cast him, and what eternity might be like if he had not saved us.
Peter
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"As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?'
'Neither this man nor his parents sinned,' said Jesus, 'but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.' John 9:1-3
"But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things--and the things that are not--to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him." 1Cor. 1:27-29
"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." Romans 8:28
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