Fellowship with CindyisHis (8)

irenemcg said:

Raymond is through surgery and doing well, he asked for his specs and his Bible tonight, and asked me to read to him, and he prayed for me to have a safe journey home. he is still witnessing to God's goodness. Praise the Lord.

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Praise God!

CindyisHis said:

Everything is going to be ALL-Right!

This is a prophetic word that will build you up and strengthen you.

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Glory to God! Thanks for sharing this! I just love listening to him and Gloria! Did you see the episode where Gloria cried about the people that are in the places where they suffer much persecution - she urged them to not give up and want to leave to go home with Jesus and to keep on going for Him! At the beginning of that episode I knew (from the Holy Spirit I suppose) that she was perhaps going to cry...Glory to God!You know, my daughter calls that show Vovo - we have biscuits here in Australia called Iced Vovo's and they have pink and white marshmallow on top of a plain biscuit all covered in coconut - mmmmmmm yummo!

CindyisHis said:

This is a faith thread. People come here and will be fed.

Jesus stands with an open hand. Receive of Him.

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I must say that I am feeling very refreshed after coming here today - my heart is filled with joy. I had to go out in the car just now, and I saw a car with a number plate that said JOY... - God is soooooooo good hallelujah!

Thanks for all your encouraging words here today C! Now here's something for you:

2 Chronicles 15:7 "Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded."

Glory to God hallelujah!

Cindy, when you get a spare moment LOL - would you please post 2 songs for me from YouTube - I don't know how to do it yet LOL! (I need some instruction ). They are my all time favourite songs at the moment - we can sing them together! I listen to them in the car and I roar them up on the way to church on Sundays LOL!

Shep's two favourite songs are:

The First and the Last
For Your Name

In that order LOL! They are from the Faith Hope Love CD by Hillsong. For those of us who were around when Duran Duran were popular, the second song For You Name has guitar in it that reminds me of the Duran Duran days LOL! Glory to God!

irenemcg said:

Raymond is through surgery and doing well, he asked for his specs and his Bible tonight, and asked me to read to him, and he prayed for me to have a safe journey home. he is still witnessing to God's goodness. Praise the Lord.

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I am glad irene. Praise Jesus Christ. I thank Him for more than we can think to ask.

I have been in one of my spaces where I needed to get away and download to the Lord. In doing so, I have been spending time at the altar. I have been getting away to the City a lot - funny right, most people probably come where I live to get away from the City and here I am going to the City to get away and find solace! I have been touring the playgrounds of Central Park with Ali and enjoying time with her, enjoying her youth and innocence, hearing the sounds of those the Lord is trying to reach, seeing his beauty. Central Park is a beautiful place. I don't like the City so I didn't think I would find driving into the City and spending a day in one of the countries busiest parks to be relaxing, but I do. I find it to be so very relaxing and wonderful. I enjoy walking around the city and watching people. This past weekend in particular I was able to take off spur of the moment and take my first overnight trip and see what it looks like in the evening. WOW! I have never seen the City at night. I lived in San Diego years ago and I have lived in Mexico, but they aren't like this. I mean, this was breathtaking. Truly breathtaking. Maybe because of all that is going on in my life. Maybe because of all I have been dealing with and needed to get away from. Maybe because I just needed to be closer to God and being on the 49th floor of a building is about as close as I am going to get in this life? I don't know...but I felt so close to Him this weekend being able to just wander the City and see the lights and see His people and those He wanted to reach. To see His amazing beauty placed before my eyes as I fell to sleep and awoke. I look forward to going back soon.

A song that has really ministered to me in this season is this one, "Altar of Heaven," from the cd I mentioned I bought last time I popped in quickly before our extended family member died. The link is: Music | Aracelis Vazquez It is the first song on the play list.

Here are the words: http://www.aracelisvazquez.com/images/Altar_of_Heaven_Lyrics.pdf:

I have a lot to catch up on and hope all is well for everyone. I turn 33 this weekend and will be spending my third birthday in a row alone. I have been telling the Lord my heart and how it isn't so much the being alone that bothers me overall as much as it is the being alone in the crowd since I am always with other families and couples and among my friends who are getting married and engaged and here I am amazingly single. The last "interest" lasted all of two days before the Lord answered my prayers and allowed me to see what I needed to see. My friends joke with my and say I would get further with dates if I would actually get to the first date but I keep asking the Lord to prescreen them all and He doesn't allow me to get to the first date! I tell them I would rather have it that way and have a bit of sadness over being the loser in the group who is always alone but will one day have a wonderful husband who I waited for than to be the winner in the group who always has a different guy because she finds out too late that intentions are incorrect, personalities are incompatible, or whatever else. The Lord is my shepherd and He directs my path. Though I am sad to spend another birthday alone with my friends who are couples, I am happy to at least have friends with whom I can spend my birthday - I could be spending it alone in my house with no one. Some days it is all in the perspective.

As far as the other stuff...the Lord can and will give knowledge where it is necessary. The situation is so convoluted and wrong that I couldn't say it online without getting myself in a ton of trouble! I can only continue to pray that the Lord is working without being seen and it is going to all come to light soon because I honestly am reaching my end as far as it is concerned.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqlgrDpdLx8

Hi Shep, Thanks for asking that question! Here are instructions for you:

Go to YouTube - Broadcast Yourself., type in the band and song you want, look through the videos and find the one you want to post. When you have found the one you want to post, copy the url from the address bar and then switch to the Christian Forums screen. In your Christian Forums post window, click on the globe with a link on it and paste the URL into the pop up window. Click okay. Click Post Quick Reply (or Post Reply if you are in advanced). You should be all set to see your video when the screen refreshes!

Here is a graphic representation to make it a bit easier to follow, using your favorite song as an illustration!

Shepherd1 said:

Hi NML! I was just thinking of you very strongly yesterday LOL! I was going to come on here and ask if anyone had heard of you hallelujah! You're one of those people that when you do come on here, you leave us with such wonderful nuggets that seem to last the entire time you're away praise God!

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Thanks, Shep. I do very much miss you guys when I am away. Cindy met me when I used my previous screen name and I used to not be so obedient about my time. I only had my older daughter then and didn't have such a need to focus my time away from the computer so wasn't as good about listening when the Lord said He wanted my ear.

Thank you for thinking of me. I am hoping to have some time this weekend but we shall see...Seems every time I say that I end up lost in the wood enjoying His beauty. I am blessed that my parents are taking Ali at 6 tomorrow and I have a much needed evening to MYSELF and may even forgo friends for a get away in my own sanctuary such as a tent in the woods somewhere! Hmmmm....

Okay...I can see already this is going to be a long night friends. I stopped in with an open slate tonight - feeling the Lord said that tonight was MY night to do with what I would like to do. Ali is enjoying herself after having spent the evening together with a good meal and some fun games, and she is still not quite ready for bed which usually means the Lord has a long night planned and is keeping her awake so she will sleep in for a while in the morning to allow me to also get a decent amount of sleep so He can speak to me well into the night! She will stay awake some nights until midnight and then sleep until noon - and at midnight she will just tell me, "Night mama." Until then, she sits here next to me, curled up watching her cartoons and worshiping with me to Smile of A Child.

Anyway that was to share how amazing the Lord is and how I know when He is going to share or speak and I am anticipating something. I don't know how long and what - as I am very tired, but I can tell just from reading only a few pages back that something VERY exciting has been happening here lately. For that I am ready and willing to tread through whatever I have to do, even if it means being tired as I read! Because I do not like to miss a blessing or what the Lord has.

I am going to write my comments to your posts and try posting them in that multi quote thing that I have seen a few of you do, as I see that some of them are quick hits and I don't want to do what I normally do where I end up stopping in and filling up six pages with my responses! We will see if by doing it this way I end up doing the same but with six very long posts though!

On that note...here is an amazing song as you read through the following posts! (For anyone who is new, as I have seen some new names already...you can open a new window or tab and then come into CF again and that is how you can continue to listen to the music even when you move to another page of the posts! They aren't smart enough yet to realize you have logged in twice!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUvvdiUqHRk

Speak Lord!!! Your child is listening!!!

Cindy - a while back you asked me about a movie I had said I was watching - A Letter To My Dad. I didn't see the post until just now.

Here is the trailer for it. I highly recommend it for anyone with some healing or forgiveness needed toward a parent or parental figure.

YouTube - A Letter To Dad - Trailer

NoMoreLocusts said:

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YouTube - Hillsong: "The First And The Last" Worship and Praise Song featuring Joel Houston (HQ)

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Hey thanks NML! How awesome is this song LOL! This is currently my favourite and when I play this in my car I feel like I'm almost going to translate right out of there and up into the clouds hallelujah! It's gotta be played loud! The other one is pretty cool too! In fact, the whole album is really good! God is sooooooo good!

NoMoreLocusts said:

YouTube - Hillsong: "For Your Name" Worship and Praise Song featuring Jad Gillies (HQ)

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LOL sounds so much like Duran Duran... Love it!

The Lord led me to go back to the beginning – something that I feel has been the “story of my life” this year! So I listened and started with post 1 of this thread and am responding to the ones to which I felt that He wanted me to respond. I will use the page and post number so you can find them easily if you want to refer back for context, and will be removing extra spaces and using my own copy and paste instead of the CF quote feature so I can use my own notes as I go along and conserve space. Hope you all don’t mind! You know I can be long winded (and those of you who are new will quickly learn!). Love you guys – hope you are as blessed as I am by how you bless me! ~Shell

Cindy – in #5 (p. 1), you shared “Yes! It's all in Him. All we'll ever need is found in Him. He [is] the starting point. He's the Author and the Finisher of our faith. We start in Him and end in Him. He's the Author and the Finisher of our faith. He's the Alpha and Omega. He's the Beginning and the End. He's the First and the Last. He's our all in all! His name is JESUS!” This is something He has been really teaching me over the past 3 years. Funny that He led me to the beginning and this is what you have posted! When I think of the nearly 14 years I was “saved” before I was SAVED! (not for theological discussion, for the point of how I missed the point of Him being the Author of my faith) because I didn’t allow Him to be the Author of my faith and instead tried to control my own destiny, I am saddened by how much time I wasted. I know the Lord has forgiven me, as He is merciful; but I am ever so thankful I finally GOT IT! I can’t even begin to tell you how much my life has changed – despite this current wilderness experience in which I am feeling isolated and in need of other true Christians who really GET what Christianity and real love and real sacrifice is about – since I have realized that HE is the One in control of my life. Whether I want a job or not does not matter, it is what He wants for my life. Whether I want to live in a particular city or attend a certain church or do a certain activity…it is all meaningless if the Lord doesn’t support and drive those decisions (Ecclesiastes 1&2). I do not want to do anything in my life that is not within the PERFECT will of the Father (Romans 12:2). I will not say there are not periods of hurt and times when my journal fills up quite quickly because I feel He is the only one who “gets” me, but I have the assurance that ALL promises from Him WILL come to pass (Psalm 145:13) if I allow Him to remain in control and if I simply submit and surrender. He is the driver of my life. He is the author of my book. He is the One who determines when I wake and when I lie down (Psalm 3:4-6). How amazing the One who created the entire universe also cares about little me (Psalm 139) – truly just a spec in the eye of entire universe! TOTALLY UNFATHOMABLE and YET TRUE!

Shep - #16 (p. 2) Good stuff! I have printed this out before for an older journal but have printed this out again to post this time where I can see it and say it daily! I like the rework of Psalm 91 and owning it here and think it a great way to personalize scripture. I do this in a different way in my prayers and think it really helps with learning scripture and writing it on the tablets of our hearts! Amen Sis! Thanks for posting if I haven’t already thanked you!!!

Shep - #21 (p. 3) Good stuff again! Rejoice in the midst of all situations. While this is such a simple concept and one I know – I have to confess it is one I have forgotten lately and could be at the root of my struggles and perhaps the reason for my wilderness journey? I have not been rejoicing as I used to. I have been taking extra time to dwell on the negative and what is not right in my life. Taking time to focus on the things I don’t like and the losses that have occurred lately. Focusing on the tragedies and sorrow instead of the joy and everyday beauty. And maybe that was the point of this weekend – though I was in the midst of the City and could see sadness and pain and homelessness and sin around me, I could also see the beauty of the lights, the architecture of the buildings, the smells of the food cooking from the street vendors, the flowers blooming in the window gardens, the window setups of the stores as we walked by. It was amazing. It was beautiful. It didn’t change the fact that there was sorrow and misery all around me, but I was rejoicing for the positive not dwelling on the negative, enjoying the forest for the trees. Thank you for this reminder that I need to do this daily not just when in the City. I need to do it when at work in the midst of the very negative situations, at home when feeling a bit overwhelmed by the “terrible twos” and how to deal with the tantrums, and in other situations that arise where I tend to spend too much time focusing on what is going wrong instead of sucking it up and moving forward and thanking the Lord that I have weekends and evenings off, a child who will give me time with the Lord and enjoys worshiping Him with me, and an amazing life when one really steps back to consider it. I really do have a lot to be thankful for and should really be appreciative of ALL of it so I don’t lose ANY of it! And yes – I agree with #22 on page 3 as well…fasting and praying does amazing things for the soul. Often when I disappear, I also fast. I have always found it odd how easy I find fasting yet how hard I find other things. I guess we all have our vices! I think it is because I was blessed to have a foundation in which prayer and fasting were the first elements of faith that I was taught, before Bible study, worship, teaching, etc. I always ache for those who do not know the wonders that fasting can do for the answer to their prayers! There is a book on the subject that I enjoyed reading with a small group I taught years ago – “Fasting for Spiritual Breakthrough”. Another from many years ago is “Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life” which is good for those desiring to go a bit deeper and do more but don’t know how. It touches upon each subject enough to get your brain moving and then you can go to the Lord to ask Him how to move from there! And finally, #30 on page 3 was again needed. I can’t remember if I already shared my thoughts previously, but I definitely DID need to come back to the beginning tonight!!! I needed to be reminded of what He is doing and that He IS doing something Great!!!

NoMoreLocusts said:

The Lord led me to go back to the beginning – something that I feel has been the “story of my life” this year! So I listened and started with post 1 of this thread and am responding to the ones to which I felt that He wanted me to respond. I will use the page and post number so you can find them easily if you want to refer back for context, and will be removing extra spaces and using my own copy and paste instead of the CF quote feature so I can use my own notes as I go along and conserve space. Hope you all don’t mind! You know I can be long winded (and those of you who are new will quickly learn!). Love you guys – hope you are as blessed as I am by how you bless me! ~Shell

Cindy – in #5 (p. 1), you shared “Yes! It's all in Him. All we'll ever need is found in Him. He [is] the starting point. He's the Author and the Finisher of our faith. We start in Him and end in Him. He's the Author and the Finisher of our faith. He's the Alpha and Omega. He's the Beginning and the End. He's the First and the Last. He's our all in all! His name is JESUS!” This is something He has been really teaching me over the past 3 years. Funny that He led me to the beginning and this is what you have posted! When I think of the nearly 14 years I was “saved” before I was SAVED! (not for theological discussion, for the point of how I missed the point of Him being the Author of my faith) because I didn’t allow Him to be the Author of my faith and instead tried to control my own destiny, I am saddened by how much time I wasted. I know the Lord has forgiven me, as He is merciful; but I am ever so thankful I finally GOT IT! I can’t even begin to tell you how much my life has changed – despite this current wilderness experience in which I am feeling isolated and in need of other true Christians who really GET what Christianity and real love and real sacrifice is about – since I have realized that HE is the One in control of my life. Whether I want a job or not does not matter, it is what He wants for my life. Whether I want to live in a particular city or attend a certain church or do a certain activity…it is all meaningless if the Lord doesn’t support and drive those decisions (Ecclesiastes 1&2). I do not want to do anything in my life that is not within the PERFECT will of the Father (Romans 12:2). I will not say there are not periods of hurt and times when my journal fills up quite quickly because I feel He is the only one who “gets” me, but I have the assurance that ALL promises from Him WILL come to pass (Psalm 145:13) if I allow Him to remain in control and if I simply submit and surrender. He is the driver of my life. He is the author of my book. He is the One who determines when I wake and when I lie down (Psalm 3:4-6). How amazing the One who created the entire universe also cares about little me (Psalm 139) – truly just a spec in the eye of entire universe! TOTALLY UNFATHOMABLE and YET TRUE!

Shep - #16 (p. 2) Good stuff! I have printed this out before for an older journal but have printed this out again to post this time where I can see it and say it daily! I like the rework of Psalm 91 and owning it here and think it a great way to personalize scripture. I do this in a different way in my prayers and think it really helps with learning scripture and writing it on the tablets of our hearts! Amen Sis! Thanks for posting if I haven’t already thanked you!!!

Shep - #21 (p. 3) Good stuff again! Rejoice in the midst of all situations. While this is such a simple concept and one I know – I have to confess it is one I have forgotten lately and could be at the root of my struggles and perhaps the reason for my wilderness journey? I have not been rejoicing as I used to. I have been taking extra time to dwell on the negative and what is not right in my life. Taking time to focus on the things I don’t like and the losses that have occurred lately. Focusing on the tragedies and sorrow instead of the joy and everyday beauty. And maybe that was the point of this weekend – though I was in the midst of the City and could see sadness and pain and homelessness and sin around me, I could also see the beauty of the lights, the architecture of the buildings, the smells of the food cooking from the street vendors, the flowers blooming in the window gardens, the window setups of the stores as we walked by. It was amazing. It was beautiful. It didn’t change the fact that there was sorrow and misery all around me, but I was rejoicing for the positive not dwelling on the negative, enjoying the forest for the trees. Thank you for this reminder that I need to do this daily not just when in the City. I need to do it when at work in the midst of the very negative situations, at home when feeling a bit overwhelmed by the “terrible twos” and how to deal with the tantrums, and in other situations that arise where I tend to spend too much time focusing on what is going wrong instead of sucking it up and moving forward and thanking the Lord that I have weekends and evenings off, a child who will give me time with the Lord and enjoys worshiping Him with me, and an amazing life when one really steps back to consider it. I really do have a lot to be thankful for and should really be appreciative of ALL of it so I don’t lose ANY of it! And yes – I agree with #22 on page 3 as well…fasting and praying does amazing things for the soul. Often when I disappear, I also fast. I have always found it odd how easy I find fasting yet how hard I find other things. I guess we all have our vices! I think it is because I was blessed to have a foundation in which prayer and fasting were the first elements of faith that I was taught, before Bible study, worship, teaching, etc. I always ache for those who do not know the wonders that fasting can do for the answer to their prayers! There is a book on the subject that I enjoyed reading with a small group I taught years ago – “Fasting for Spiritual Breakthrough”. Another from many years ago is “Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life” which is good for those desiring to go a bit deeper and do more but don’t know how. It touches upon each subject enough to get your brain moving and then you can go to the Lord to ask Him how to move from there! And finally, #30 on page 3 was again needed. I can’t remember if I already shared my thoughts previously, but I definitely DID need to come back to the beginning tonight!!! I needed to be reminded of what He is doing and that He IS doing something Great!!!

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Glory to God! So glad to have that refresher course and that you were blessed by all the posts! So nice to see you NML! God bless you and may you abound in the hope and the love that is of the Lord Jesus Christ hallelujah!

CindyisHis said:

Your trip to the city sounds exciting! I almost felt like I was there with you on the 49th floor and in Central Park. What a special time with Ali.

I'm glad the LORD revealed about that guy. I'm with you - it's better to be alone than to try this one and that one. I did the same thing after my first marriage. I waited, not dating anyone, though I did have a wonderful friend who was a man. But we didn't date, not in that sense of the word. It will be worth it, nml.


It's really good to see you.

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Hi Cindy, I was actually with Ali and my older daughter. We went up as a family on a spur of the moment as my older daughter was scheduled to come home for the night and I wasn't ready to have her come home just yet - still don't feel safe having her in the house whereas being around others it was less likely she could attempt anything. I feel the Lord was behind that impulse completely, as a decision like that wouldn't typically be approved as easily as it was and it was approved flawlessly and without any kind of second thought. It was a good weekend up until the end of the trip when a very hard conversation took place in which I poured my heart out about the situation and finally for the first time in the seven month long saga said exactly how I felt and that I was not going to make any decisions lightly but weigh everything through prayer and supplication and ensure I am making the best decision for Ali and myself as well as her. She did not like that so much and has since made some very rash and unhealthy decisions that could have some poor consequences in the long run - but it is in God's hands. I can only trust He is overseeing this situation because I still find it terribly ridiculous that we even got to this place in light of how we ended up here and what has been uncovered since. I have to say that letting all of that emotion and those feelings out felt great despite the resulting decision she made. And the resulting decision is probably better at this time for Ali and myself and our safety, but in the long run will be worse for my older daughter and her emotional wellbeing unless God has something planned.

I think we are like a big family here and look out for one another very closely. I would not get involved with someone without knowing full intentions and such. I was excited that the Lord had healed my negative view of myself and just had trouble expressing that to you guys in trying to give you the back story and the prayer request of believing that I could in fact fall in love one day. But when it came down to it, we never even made it to another phone call or anything because I am very keen to the Lord and what He tells me and I pray intently when it comes to ensuring a guys motives are correct. I have a very large army of guy friends - which is something my girlfriends all harass me about! They are great guys who really look out for me and ensure I am at my best at all times when it comes to looking out for myself as well - if I start to slip, we are accountable to one another. One in particular, I have dinner with at least once a month and we discuss if anyone has caught my eye. Back when my ex first left, my friend and I sat down together and I wrote a list of the qualities I wanted in a guy - we have prayed over that list and over the years I have modified it as the Lord showed me things that were more the "not my ex" qualities versus truly things the Lord would have me desire in a mate. Whenever I say someone has caught my eye we compare him to the list and pretty much right away will either shut down any hope or begin prayer that the Lord show me if it is right. The most important thing of all, Cindy, and I think I said it in the first post, is that I want to be pursued. Call me old fashioned, but I want to feel special when I receive a call asking if I would like to go out and can I be ready to be picked up. In this day and age - well...let's just say that doesn't exist much so it is pretty easy for the Lord to weed right through many of them. The few that have asked me out, such as this guy, the Lord is great about answering my prayers to show me their heart prior to the date by showing me how they value my time with my family. This was an easy judgment call when he texted me three nights in a row during my playground and hiking time with Ali - something you DON'T do. I am more than happy to share my time with her when the Lord says that I have met someone by him joining us, but I will not stand still texting and avoiding time with my child because someone does not respect that I clearly stated if they wanted to talk on the phone or text it would have to be after 9 pm when my child is in bed. Sometimes the Lord amazes me with how easy it is done. I suffered some hard judgment for this one, to the point that one friend has not talked to me since I told the guy that I am sure he is a great guy but he is not the one for me! She said my standards are too high and that with a situation like mine (meaning my eldest) I should have been happy anyone was willing to get involved with me. I told her my standards are actually probably too low if I were to put them against the Lord's standards and that last I remembered I didn't have applications out next to my person and so I didn't need to be thankful to someone for wanting to be involved with me. I am aware of my situation and the reality of it as I have to live it daily. However, when my future husband does arrive I would be happy to have her throw our engagement party since she is believing I will never be able to find a guy who meets my standards or would be willing to become involved with someone with a teenager who has lost all common sense (which is pretty much all of them) - she is a party planner and that is why I made the comment. So I had fun with it as I had to in order to make the best of the situation because I knew that they did all have a point that I was passing up the ONLY person who had expressed interest in me. HOWEVER, I also hadn't put up any vibes of being someone who others should be interested in so that doesn't help. I am that girl who changes oil in my car, plays baseball with the guys, cuts down my own trees, is remodeling my own home, and wants to build an 86 IROC Z from the ground up just so I can say I did. Not exactly the gal that most Christian men are thinking of when they read Proverbs 31 if you know what I mean! (Though I do wear purple when changing the oil and cutting down trees.) Truthfully, in the situation what I realized is that I am okay with being single all but when I go out and then I realize I am alone. When I am here in my house at 12:15 typing away on Christian Forums to my internet buddies, it really doesn't bother me! When I am here worshiping and enjoying the Lord, it doesn't bothering me. It is that occasional moment when I am looking to have dinner with someone other than my friends and their significant others or my guy friends and I realize suddenly that it has been three years since anyone I would consider datable has expressed interest in me. BUT that said, in the past few weeks, the Lord has shown me this - WHAT DOES THAT MATTER? In the grand scheme of life, what does that matter? My worth does not come from a guy whose position in life is similar to my own asking me out - it comes from the Lord. And that is what I need to remember in those moments. That is not to say it still won't stink tomorrow night when I am there by myself among friends if I decide to go and I am once again the only person who is not with someone - but it is to say that I need to take in that moment and also be thankful that I am the only one who will be able to go home tomorrow night, throw my socks in the middle of the living room floor for no reason other than I CAN and NOT get reprimanded for it when they are STILL THERE the next morning! HAHA HAHAHA And that is actually worth enjoy the singleness I have been blessed with at this time! I am rambling and I should be reading... back to the task at hand!! I really have missed you guys!