A need to process (3)

[Joyandpeace]

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[ManSeekingGodsPeace]

Goodnight J.

 

[Hisbygrace]

Looks like everyone is gone.......

 

[MsJL]

If you think he's using caller id to filter your calls, I'm willing to call him. I don't have his number though, so if choose that option you'll need to get that to me privately some way.

In any case, you're gonna worry until you hear from him. That's (of course) normal. Wish I could 'fix' that for you, but no one can (except for D).

God's blessings

MSGP

Just wanted to thank you for the kind offer, and let you know that he doesn't "filter" my calls. I found that statement to be both odd and very upsetting.

Again, many thanks, but I'll just wait for now. I can deal with it myself.

 

[CoolMom6]

Getting kids to bed; got a one-day job tomorrow for a bit of cash.

J; I'll keep praying for you and D until I go to sleep.
Love ya.

 

[MsJL]

Thank you so much, B.



Please send a prayer up for Tori, as well. She was pretty worried when she went to sleep.

 

[HappyArmyWife]

Please send a prayer up for Tori, as well. She was pretty worried when she went to sleep.

sending my prayers for everyone.

 

[SabrinaFair]

Wow! I obviously missed several pages of stuff... I had to cross "The Great Divide" to get here... hmmm, see if I let go of the mouse again...

Going to get ready for bed, hopefully sleep will come...

God bless you all!!

 

[Starr SDA Living Word]

 

[Sheltercove]

Just marking this as new territory since I can't find the last one.
I've missed some pages so I'm out of the loop.

ahem... was busy yesterday (chuckle).
Take care...

 

[Psalm63]

It's funny, but after a few years of relatively low-visibility work, I ended up in a critical/visible role in the same month my wife told me she wanted a divorce and initiated that process. It's been a 'perfect storm' emotionally

I didn't know you were married.

This popped in my head:

http://www.marriagebuilders.com/graphic/mbi8111_leave.html

and, you would not regret it if she would be willing to try this:

http://www.retrouvaille.org/

 

[Psalm63]

I just outright told my husband that he couldn't quit unless he had something lined out. ...

So here I am now ordering him. Are we REALLY supposed to be submissive wives?

Don't get into THAT confusion, girl!!!

"submission" does not mean lay on the floor and be a doormat
while he corn cobs you to death

GOD wants TRUTH, he want you speaking it.
Not to do so is to deprive your husband!

What you said to him sounded pretty gentle and truthful to ME!

http://www.marriagebuilders.com/graphic/mbi3500_policy.html

 

[Psalm63]

J&P
For all of the women with corn cobb problems....

ROFL.

Sorry I can't quote the smiley.

Is THAT the solution
Is it compatible with "submission"? (scratch head)

 

[Joyandpeace]

Just marking this as new territory since I can't find the last one.
I've missed some pages so I'm out of the loop.

ahem... was busy yesterday (chuckle).
Take care...

Hi Sheltercove,

You can get to the last one from the first post on this thread! You better go catch up - we yacked a bunch!

 

[Joyandpeace]

J - did you hear from your son?

 

[HopesDreams]

Don't get into THAT confusion, girl!!!

"submission" does not mean lay on the floor and be a doormat
while he corn cobs you to death

GOD wants TRUTH, he want you speaking it.
Not to do so is to deprive your husband!

What you said to him sounded pretty gentle and truthful to ME!

http://www.marriagebuilders.com/graphic/mbi3500_policy.html

Thank you for your encouraging words.

It looks like everything's going to be okay. He talked with his manager when he came home this morning and his manager supports him. His contract hasn't been changed--the other company is just trying to take advantage of him. His company is going to back him 100%.

I talked with him again about being careful to not lower himself to the behavior of others. His being a sensible person has gotten him far in his life and there's no reason to stop being sensible now.

I'd really hate to see him switch jobs. Prior to changing careers, he had 7 weeks vacation a year. He only recently achieved 2 weeks vacation in this new career. He'd have to start all over again with a different company. I just feel badly that he's had to change careers---especially when it's a career that's not really right for him. I figure if he's going to do a job that he hates, he's better off having as much vacation as he can get so he can take breaks from it.

I really think that if I hadn't spoken up and stood my ground last night that everything would have been different this morning. We might have been facing a major life crisis.

I appreciate everyone supporting me in my stand. Thank you all so much for being here last night in the middle of my trama. I just happened to be here socializing when the phone calls came in. I really appreciated having everyone's encouragement and distractions to calm me down.

Thank you all for being so special!

 

[Psalm63]

((((((((h&d))))))))

 

[CoolMom6]

Good Morning; I won't be here as I have something to do to bring in a bit of gas money...!!!!

Anyway, I was wondering about D today, too, and if you heard anything, J...concerned...I will be thinking of you all day.
Later, all!

 

[Psalm63]

Originally posted by Tender Warrior:
I would throw up walls and barriers to protect me. I would wear a mask that would keep people at an arms length. ...

If there was a way to isolate yourself and be a Christian, I'm sure I would have figured out a way to do it by now. Honest! It doesn’t work! You’ve got to have people in your life. You’ve got to love. There is no way you can receive love without, at some level, being vulnerable. There just isn’t. .
...
There was a time when I was deceived into thinking that Jesus and I could be really chummy with or without me having right relationships with people but eventually I realized that I would stay in bondage... to anger, judgement and dissatisfaction with life. And I would wonder why the heavens were brass... why I couldn’t seem to get through.
...
He gently pointed out that it wasn’t true... that if I had a problem loving people, I had a problem loving Him too.
...
I’m learning to love and I’m learning to let myself be loved. It’s a journey that is good for us to be on together.
[/QB]

Being vulnerable to people, opening up...
With some people its safe.
With others, its not.
The unsafe ones take the vulnerabilities and turn them into a weapon:
mock, scorn, ridicule...

"if I have a problem loving people, I have a problem loving Him too"?
What does it mean to "love your enemies"? Does loving enemies take vulnerability?
That he makes himself my enemy and I can't share is no reflection on my love for Jesus.
How did Jesus feel when he was mocked, scorned, taunted, painted in a demeaning disrespectful way that was no reflection of his real identity?
What does love feel like in that context?

You said "the heavens were brass"; you "couldn't seem to get through"...

Its not like that for me.
God embraces me.
GOD demonstrates to me HIS acceptance of me even when I am really having a VERY bad time and I'm QUITE unloveable.

I have felt HIM draw ever so close to me
when NO ONE ELSE would dream of it.

Its as though HE holds me in HIS lap
and rocks me,
strokes my hair,
and tells me it will be OK...

 

[Psalm63]

"let myself be loved"

H has said to me that I don't let him love me.
But when I expose something important,
he tramples on it like a swine on pearls.

Maybe, if I could only,
pretend H is coveying a need to be loved,
to be accepted...

Its hard to see him as vulnerable, weak, crippled.
Because he's soooo cocky, superior, condescending

I take abuse from the handicapped woman I help too.
But its easy for me to have compassion for her.
Her handicaps are so visible.