Whatever you think for WhiteHorse.. (5)

CoolMom6 said:

Wow, I popped in just for a quick sec to see what's up and I see all of my old CF buddies!!!
HEY everyone!!!
Lot's mo love all around

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We throwin' down in dis here house!!!!! eheh

kelco!!! how thee are?

hey Donny, happy Friday!!

kelco said:

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Sup!

brinny said:

hey Donny, happy Friday!!

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Yo!

Just dropping in before heading to church to show some love for a special friend.

HUGS don.

Oh yah, Happy Sabbath all.

Hey, Donny

How's things? I hope you had a good weekend!

Today is Pete's Birthday so come on over to his birthday thread and help him celebrate . . .

Mo love, y'all!

Good evening all.

Mo love, my peoples!

Hello everyone!

I'm reading WILD AT HEART. Basically, this author says boys are born to be dragon slayers. We look for...NEED adventure. That's why we grow up playing with make believe swords and guns. Don't have a toy? Give me a stick...good enough.

He also talks about women being the damsel in distress in the tower. But what most women don't realize is what that tower is...what holds them captive. Pain from being mistreated or ignored.

Anyway...back to me and the dragon slaying thing. A little later he goes on to talk about our three enemies, the flesh, the world and the devil. That's not new to me...I've known that for years. BUT...and I don't really remember at what point in the book this hit me, it so totally explained a lot about me and what makes me tick.

You have to realize a little something about my past...I was subject to some abuse and watched my mother endure some. There's still a little boy inside me wanting to rescue his Mom and sister...and that seems to carry over into being drawn...very drawn...to wounded women. I always had to save them from damage caused by some other man in their life. Their father, an old boyfried, an ex husband, someone who may have molested them. I had to try to rescue them from emotional pain and/or sexual dissatisfaction. I mean, you have no idea how totally helpless I felt and how overwhelming the urge to rush in and make them better. My heart just ached for a woman who was hurting and I HAD to save her. Many times it would be getting involved with someone I didn't even know was hurting...but there was that little dragon slayer who somehow managed to see the dragons in her life.

Well...it hit me tonight...I was doing what I was made to do...I was slaying dragons to save the damsel in distress. It's my destiny. HOWEVER....here's the good part....I was really stupid in the way I did battle. I was drawn into the Dragon's very own lair. The place he wanted me to come. The place with which he is so very familiar, and a place where I was running around in the darkness....pitch black darkness.

You see, the REAL Dragon created a diversion. The real Dragon is Satan. He created those decoy dragons in those women by pain inflicted on them at some point in their life. I went rushing into HIS den, in dark, unfamiliar territory, to slay dragons that weren't really dragons. They were just pain he'd inflicted and disguised it to me as something I could slay. I went rushing in with my sword to kill their pain...to make them happy...to fulfill their every need...to be their hero. But, in reality, I only added to it. Because what I was giving them was just drugs to ease the pain for a minute...it dulled their senses of what they really needed to be healed of. They were disillusioned into thinking they were all better, just because they were happy. But, you know, isn't that just like a drug addict? He thinks he's doing the right thing at first. It feels good. It makes all the bad stuff go away. But, in reality, he's just making things worse for himself.

I was their drug...not their dragon slayer. I just complicated issues and burried their pain deeper and deeper, because I helped them stuff it down and ignore it.

I mean, you know, it's obvious, as a Christian, that there are just certain places we shouldn't go. But now it's so clear. When I cross those boundaries with someone...Satan's laughing as I swing my sword in the darkness at dragons that aren't really dragons. He's distracted me and kept me from doing what he least wants me to do...obey God.

Now I see how to slay the Dragon. Obedience to God, showing them love without crossing improper boundaries...THAT'S the way to be the hero. THAT'S the way to battle the REAL Dragon.

I hope this might help someone realize where the real battle is and how to properly fight it.

Men...slay the Dragon on God's terms...not on the Dragon's. Daddy always said, "Never take another man's bet on his trick."

Women...you're hurting. Some male in your life, at some point, has wounded you. Said or done something to indicate to you that you're not a Princess worthy of a knight in shining armor....a dragon slayer who is wise and discerning...who knows where the real battle lies and who to properly fight it. Let them rescue you from your captive tower the right way.

Yer Pal,

Donny Dragon-Slayer

I love this post. And I love the person who posted it.
You are a gift to so many, my friend.

I am so glad I have one person in the world who understands, and I understand you back.

Blessed will be the woman whom God sends your way for she will be something special~~