Hello Everyone

[Unapologetically_Wild]

Hello there Everyone.
I can't wait to meet you all and to exchange beliefs and views and to learn a lot from you all.

I am 32, and in my life I have lived in different parts of the world, and moved a lot. I was born in Georgia, close to where they now filming The Walking Dead. Later on I moved to Switzerland to live with my Father, where I went to school, college etc.
When I was 20, almost 21 I came to the US and spontaneously stayed, a friend recently pointed out that it was kind of a "refuge" move. I left the place I had grown up to survive, to find hope and a future.
Staying with a family I had never known really brought many, many challenges but a few months into living here, I had the best thing ever happen to me: I gave my life to Jesus Christ 3 weeks after turning 21.

Maybe one day I will share my story, it's long and God did some incredible things. But I have been bullied for my testimony in another Christian Forum so I am a bit hesitant to share it honestly.

Either way, I have had the privilege to be involved in some Mission Work, and travelling while serving Christ, experiencing some different cultures and that has forever changed my heart and desires.

Recently I have actually started counseling and it has really helped dealing with a lot of stuff that I have experienced growing up, and with my family since becoming a Christian and other experiences while serving in the Body. It's a really really good Journey, not the easiest, but I know that things that aren't easy in the long run are really worth it, right?

I am an artist, writer and I dabble in some music - mostly for mine and the Lords amusement mostly and even though I am very introverted, for some reason children energize me.

I especially feel a passion for children from tough and challenging backgrounds. I was having a second interview to work at a Boys and Girls club in the local area and then COVID-19 sent us all inside - and so I am looking forward to completing the process once we are allowed to mingle again.

Things I really need to improve is that I haven't read through the Bible in it's entirety yet. But I am seeing more and more through my counseling sessions how the bible in it's entirety is one beautiful whole. And has helped me to learn a lot more about God's character as a whole and hopefully by understanding how I am viewed and loved by Him, I will also start viewing myself in a better light.

<3

Ask questions if you want to - I hope this isn't too weird and confusing, but it probably was Sorry bout that,

Blessings to you all

 

[faroukfarouk]

Hello there Everyone.
I can't wait to meet you all and to exchange beliefs and views and to learn a lot from you all.

I am 32, and in my life I have lived in different parts of the world, and moved a lot. I was born in Georgia, close to where they now filming The Walking Dead. Later on I moved to Switzerland to live with my Father, where I went to school, college etc.
When I was 20, almost 21 I came to the US and spontaneously stayed, a friend recently pointed out that it was kind of a "refuge" move. I left the place I had grown up to survive, to find hope and a future.
Staying with a family I had never known really brought many, many challenges but a few months into living here, I had the best thing ever happen to me: I gave my life to Jesus Christ 3 weeks after turning 21.

Maybe one day I will share my story, it's long and God did some incredible things. But I have been bullied for my testimony in another Christian Forum so I am a bit hesitant to share it honestly.

Either way, I have had the privilege to be involved in some Mission Work, and travelling while serving Christ, experiencing some different cultures and that has forever changed my heart and desires.

Recently I have actually started counseling and it has really helped dealing with a lot of stuff that I have experienced growing up, and with my family since becoming a Christian and other experiences while serving in the Body. It's a really really good Journey, not the easiest, but I know that things that aren't easy in the long run are really worth it, right?

I am an artist, writer and I dabble in some music - mostly for mine and the Lords amusement mostly and even though I am very introverted, for some reason children energize me.

I especially feel a passion for children from tough and challenging backgrounds. I was having a second interview to work at a Boys and Girls club in the local area and then COVID-19 sent us all inside - and so I am looking forward to completing the process once we are allowed to mingle again.

Things I really need to improve is that I haven't read through the Bible in it's entirety yet. But I am seeing more and more through my counseling sessions how the bible in it's entirety is one beautiful whole. And has helped me to learn a lot more about God's character as a whole and hopefully by understanding how I am viewed and loved by Him, I will also start viewing myself in a better light.

<3

Ask questions if you want to - I hope this isn't too weird and confusing, but it probably was Sorry bout that,

Blessings to you all

Hi; good to see you.

John's Gospel is a really great book of the New Testament to get to know well; for example, a chapter per day can mean good progress.

So you're not from the US originally? My wife and I are in Canada.

 

[Unapologetically_Wild]

Hi; good to see you.

John's Gospel is a really great book of the New Testament to get to know well; for example, a chapter per day can mean good progress.

So you're not from the US originally? My wife and I are in Canada.

Farouk, Hello!
Thanks for welcoming me
I like the Book of John a whole lot... My favorite Story in the whole bible(the to-me-known part)... Is the story in John 4 with the Samaritan Woman. John has such a wonderful account in the Gospel.

I am born in America and my family is half American. I did however grow up in Switzerland and my other side of the family is Italian/Swiss Immigrants.

Are you originally from Mexico? (because of your Profile Pic)

 

[faroukfarouk]

Farouk, Hello!
Thanks for welcoming me
I like the Book of John a whole lot... My favorite Story in the whole bible(the to-me-known part)... Is the story in John 4 with the Samaritan Woman. John has such a wonderful account in the Gospel.

I am born in America and my family is half American. I did however grow up in Switzerland and my other side of the family is Italian/Swiss Immigrants.

Are you originally from Mexico? (because of your Profile Pic)

@Unapologetically_Wild
Hi; no, but Italian and Spanish are quite similar; I expect you've experienced this.

So you know Ticino? I've never been, but I would find it interesting to go to Campione d'Italia, surrounded by Switzerland on a lake...

Yes, indeed, John 4 shows the searching and kind scrutiny of the Lord Jesus who knew everything about the Samaritan woman.

Reminds me of Psalm 139.23: "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."

"O Saviour Christ, thou too art man;
thou hast been troubled, tempted, tried;
thy kind but searching glance can scan
the very wounds that shame would hide."

 

[timewerx]

Hello Wild, Georgia in Russia or Georgia in USA? You do resemble Eastern European women. Your passion in children from challenging background is really nice.

 

[Unapologetically_Wild]

@Unapologetically_Wild
Hi; no, but Italian and Spanish are quite similar; I expect you've experienced this.

So you know Ticino? I've never been, but I would find it interesting to go to Campione d'Italia, surrounded by Switzerland on a lake...

Yes, indeed, John 4 shows the searching and kind scrutiny of the Lord Jesus who knew everything about the Samaritan woman.

Reminds me of Psalm 139.23: "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."

"O Saviour Christ, thou too art man;
thou hast been troubled, tempted, tried;
thy kind but searching glance can scan
the very wounds that shame would hide."

Hello again
Quick question: How can I react or respond to postings on my wall? I am having a very difficult time figuring it out - the site as a whole is a bit hard to navigate...

I would have sent a PM to you but I could not figure that out either.... I am no techi you will learn pretty quickly...

I actually wrote something about this encounter at the well recently I think I will post it here...

(It's the last part of this writing project I started recently called "3 am thoughts" because I found myself awake then and instead of watching netflix, I felt I could use this time more wisely.)


"Jesus once made a bold, unconventional choice as it became clear that for now, he should leave Judea and head back to Galilee. He went straight through “unclean” territory, namely Samaria. Why did he do this? The Jews would prefer to engage in a journey that was about fifty miles further, an additional probably 20 hours of travelling by foot, rather than to risk becoming soiled. Not so Jesus, he went through the center, taking this shortcut, to the amazement of his disciples - who were most likely exchanging looks and raised eyebrows. Did the teacher not know what kind of place this was?
Yet Jesus had an appointment, an important appointment with an important person. See in the grand scheme of the world, this person perhaps wasn’t noteworthy. She could easily have been overlooked and forgotten. But in the eyes of her heavenly Father, she was indeed most precious.
Of course I am talking about the Samaritan woman at the well.


Jesus sends off his disciples to fetch him food in Sychar, while he takes a seat on the well. No sooner have the boisterous voices of his disciples faded in the distance, as the low panting of a struggling person in the midday sun reaches his ears. This person, Jesus knows, is panting for so much more than air or a cool drink from Jacobs well. She longs for an intimate relationship with God, to know that she is loved and forgiven and that she can be restored. The religious regulations of that day all but made this impossible for her- a woman of impurity. If she cannot worship on Mount Gerizim where Moses received the ten commandments, and if she is not welcome in Jerusalem in the holy temple, then where will she receive this forgiveness she so desperately longs for?
Jesus engages her in conversation and they have a banter. This woman is intelligent, she is in pain, and she thinks the worst of men. She believes of them what the world has taught her. That they only use her and discard her. She knows only that she is not cherished, not beloved and not protected. People remind her over and over that she is unclean, a promiscuous woman, a woman living in adultery. Little does she know the person she is encountering, who asked her for a drink, will reveal himself to her as the LIVING WATER. The neverending spring of life giving water, which will spring forth from her heart if she can let go of the pain of her past and place trust in God, place hope in Him.
“There is a time coming, it is indeed here now, when you will worship the Father neither on this Mountain nor in Jerusalem. Yet a time is coming and has now come, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for these are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks.”
She is stooped over - this man has told her “All she ever did” during their banter and yet she did not feel condemnation. And now he spoke out her deepest longing. And she picks up her water jugs to head back into the village filled with sneering and judging neighbors and she speaks it out loud “I know when the Messiah comes He will explain everything to us.” And she is wanting to leave this strange man behind her.
But that is when he speaks those words - For the first time he openly reveals who He truly is “I AM HE.”

The awe and shock she must have felt. “Why do you think I came to this well at noon? I came to find you.” this is not in the text but I can feel Jesus saying it to her. “I KNEW YOU BEFORE YOU WERE FORMED IN YOUR MOTHER’S WOMB. I know what you have suffered under the religious burden and weight of shame, that was placed on you by men who used you. But here I am - I came for my one precious sheep, to bring you respite, to restore you, to bring you hope and a future, to give back your dignity, to see you smile and your back straighten, as I will lift all your burdens from your shoulders. The weight of sin and shame, have no hold on you, when you place your trust in Me.”

Beloved, go to the wellspring of Life. Let Him lift your burdens, let him satisfy your soul and your deepest cravings. Only He can fill this need in your soul. The ever striving, gnawing feeling in the pit of your stomach, it can be quenched; it can be stilled; when you allow Jesus his rightful place in your life. Not as your Elf-on-a-shelf. As your Sugar-Daddy-in-the-Sky. As your Pocket-Genie. But as your Maker. As your Master. As your Good Shepherd. "

 

[Aussie Pete]

Hello there Everyone.
I can't wait to meet you all and to exchange beliefs and views and to learn a lot from you all.

I am 32, and in my life I have lived in different parts of the world, and moved a lot. I was born in Georgia, close to where they now filming The Walking Dead. Later on I moved to Switzerland to live with my Father, where I went to school, college etc.
When I was 20, almost 21 I came to the US and spontaneously stayed, a friend recently pointed out that it was kind of a "refuge" move. I left the place I had grown up to survive, to find hope and a future.
Staying with a family I had never known really brought many, many challenges but a few months into living here, I had the best thing ever happen to me: I gave my life to Jesus Christ 3 weeks after turning 21.

Maybe one day I will share my story, it's long and God did some incredible things. But I have been bullied for my testimony in another Christian Forum so I am a bit hesitant to share it honestly.

Either way, I have had the privilege to be involved in some Mission Work, and travelling while serving Christ, experiencing some different cultures and that has forever changed my heart and desires.

Recently I have actually started counseling and it has really helped dealing with a lot of stuff that I have experienced growing up, and with my family since becoming a Christian and other experiences while serving in the Body. It's a really really good Journey, not the easiest, but I know that things that aren't easy in the long run are really worth it, right?

I am an artist, writer and I dabble in some music - mostly for mine and the Lords amusement mostly and even though I am very introverted, for some reason children energize me.

I especially feel a passion for children from tough and challenging backgrounds. I was having a second interview to work at a Boys and Girls club in the local area and then COVID-19 sent us all inside - and so I am looking forward to completing the process once we are allowed to mingle again.

Things I really need to improve is that I haven't read through the Bible in it's entirety yet. But I am seeing more and more through my counseling sessions how the bible in it's entirety is one beautiful whole. And has helped me to learn a lot more about God's character as a whole and hopefully by understanding how I am viewed and loved by Him, I will also start viewing myself in a better light.

<3

Ask questions if you want to - I hope this isn't too weird and confusing, but it probably was Sorry bout that,

Blessings to you all

Hi, welcome to the forum.

 

[faroukfarouk]

Hello again
Quick question: How can I react or respond to postings on my wall? I am having a very difficult time figuring it out - the site as a whole is a bit hard to navigate...

I would have sent a PM to you but I could not figure that out either.... I am no techi you will learn pretty quickly...

I actually wrote something about this encounter at the well recently I think I will post it here...

(It's the last part of this writing project I started recently called "3 am thoughts" because I found myself awake then and instead of watching netflix, I felt I could use this time more wisely.)


"Jesus once made a bold, unconventional choice as it became clear that for now, he should leave Judea and head back to Galilee. He went straight through “unclean” territory, namely Samaria. Why did he do this? The Jews would prefer to engage in a journey that was about fifty miles further, an additional probably 20 hours of travelling by foot, rather than to risk becoming soiled. Not so Jesus, he went through the center, taking this shortcut, to the amazement of his disciples - who were most likely exchanging looks and raised eyebrows. Did the teacher not know what kind of place this was?
Yet Jesus had an appointment, an important appointment with an important person. See in the grand scheme of the world, this person perhaps wasn’t noteworthy. She could easily have been overlooked and forgotten. But in the eyes of her heavenly Father, she was indeed most precious.
Of course I am talking about the Samaritan woman at the well.


Jesus sends off his disciples to fetch him food in Sychar, while he takes a seat on the well. No sooner have the boisterous voices of his disciples faded in the distance, as the low panting of a struggling person in the midday sun reaches his ears. This person, Jesus knows, is panting for so much more than air or a cool drink from Jacobs well. She longs for an intimate relationship with God, to know that she is loved and forgiven and that she can be restored. The religious regulations of that day all but made this impossible for her- a woman of impurity. If she cannot worship on Mount Gerizim where Moses received the ten commandments, and if she is not welcome in Jerusalem in the holy temple, then where will she receive this forgiveness she so desperately longs for?
Jesus engages her in conversation and they have a banter. This woman is intelligent, she is in pain, and she thinks the worst of men. She believes of them what the world has taught her. That they only use her and discard her. She knows only that she is not cherished, not beloved and not protected. People remind her over and over that she is unclean, a promiscuous woman, a woman living in adultery. Little does she know the person she is encountering, who asked her for a drink, will reveal himself to her as the LIVING WATER. The neverending spring of life giving water, which will spring forth from her heart if she can let go of the pain of her past and place trust in God, place hope in Him.
“There is a time coming, it is indeed here now, when you will worship the Father neither on this Mountain nor in Jerusalem. Yet a time is coming and has now come, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for these are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks.”
She is stooped over - this man has told her “All she ever did” during their banter and yet she did not feel condemnation. And now he spoke out her deepest longing. And she picks up her water jugs to head back into the village filled with sneering and judging neighbors and she speaks it out loud “I know when the Messiah comes He will explain everything to us.” And she is wanting to leave this strange man behind her.
But that is when he speaks those words - For the first time he openly reveals who He truly is “I AM HE.”

The awe and shock she must have felt. “Why do you think I came to this well at noon? I came to find you.” this is not in the text but I can feel Jesus saying it to her. “I KNEW YOU BEFORE YOU WERE FORMED IN YOUR MOTHER’S WOMB. I know what you have suffered under the religious burden and weight of shame, that was placed on you by men who used you. But here I am - I came for my one precious sheep, to bring you respite, to restore you, to bring you hope and a future, to give back your dignity, to see you smile and your back straighten, as I will lift all your burdens from your shoulders. The weight of sin and shame, have no hold on you, when you place your trust in Me.”

Beloved, go to the wellspring of Life. Let Him lift your burdens, let him satisfy your soul and your deepest cravings. Only He can fill this need in your soul. The ever striving, gnawing feeling in the pit of your stomach, it can be quenched; it can be stilled; when you allow Jesus his rightful place in your life. Not as your Elf-on-a-shelf. As your Sugar-Daddy-in-the-Sky. As your Pocket-Genie. But as your Maker. As your Master. As your Good Shepherd. "

Great thoughts there about the Lord Jesus as the water of life.

On your personal page, click 'start a conversation' for pms. (You may have to wait until you have posted a few more posts; sometimes not all the facilities kick in immediately, but I'm no expert.)

I also posted links to a few threads I have started.

 

[Rigatoni]

Welcome to the forums @Unapologetically_Wild Nice to meet a fellow artist and music-lover.

Hope your time here is edifying and blessed with great fellowship.

 

[Unapologetically_Wild]

Hi, welcome to the forum.

Thanks Pete Hello!

 

[faroukfarouk]

@Unapologetically_Wild PS: I meant, on the page of the person you want to pm, if you click it, there should come up the phrase 'Start a Conversation'.

 

[Unapologetically_Wild]

Welcome to the forums @Unapologetically_Wild Nice to meet a fellow artist and music-lover.

Hope your time here is edifying and blessed with great fellowship.

Hello there Anthony
Thanks a bunch for taking time to say Hi! Heck yes! *nerd-fistbump* We are gonna have to talk about that stuff some time

 

[Sabertooth]

Hello & welcome @Unapologetically_Wild .

Now, I have "Wild Thing" stuck in my head. Thanks...

 

[Unapologetically_Wild]

@Unapologetically_Wild PS: I meant, on the page of the person you want to pm, if you click it, there should come up the phrase 'Start a Conversation'.

Yeah I tied that - it didn't work lol
Well- perhaps in a few days everything will be working better

Thanks for reading the very long exert - and yes I shall try and look into those threads

I have bin to Ticino many many times. That is where we Swiss go to get Sun, espeially if you are from the north like me. Oh the food there is heavenly. And it's great for hiking and all that fun stuff.
Since I have family in North Italy it is a good stop on the way down there

 

[Unapologetically_Wild]

Hello & welcome @Unapologetically_Wild .

Now, I have "Wild Thing" stuck in my head. Thanks...

Hello fellow Cheese head! How bout that snow?

Haha well you are welcome. I am always able to be relied on to get annoying songs stuck in your head. I promise you "wild thing" is a lot better then the song that never ends

THERE - I did it. You're Welcome....

And I meant to respond to the message earlier but couldn't for some reason.
"Unappologetically Wild" is the name of my blog, and it is looking to be unappologetically who we were meant to be. No if's and but's - no shame, no yokes of oppression. But the mantel of Christ, His identity, and his liberty. Embrace beauty, mistakes and all that as part of life.

Hehe deep stuff eh?

Thanks for saying hi!

 

[faroukfarouk]

Yeah I tied that - it didn't work lol
Well- perhaps in a few days everything will be working better

Thanks for reading the very long exert - and yes I shall try and look into those threads

I have bin to Ticino many many times. That is where we Swiss go to get Sun, espeially if you are from the north like me. Oh the food there is heavenly. And it's great for hiking and all that fun stuff.
Since I have family in North Italy it is a good stop on the way down there

Makes Switzerland a very interesting place, with all those languages...in terms of natural geography, Ticino seems more to be part of Italy, even though history has linked it with Switzerland; the answer being of course that Italy has been a united country only since the 19th century.

 

[Sabertooth]

Yeah I tied that - it didn't work lol

(I believe that new members cannot PM until so many posts...)

 

[Unapologetically_Wild]

Hello Wild, Georgia in Russia or Georgia in USA? You do resemble Eastern European women. Your passion in children from challenging background is really nice.

Hi Werxy!
(I hope I can call you that ) thanks for saying hi!
Do you have a passion for kiddos too?

I get that Eastern European thing ALL the time. Seriously, no eastern europe in my blood at all. Just lot's of french (On both sides of my family I think...) Perhaps it's those two drops of native american I might have in me from my Great-Gramma's Side.
Naw though - it's the whole "American by birth, Southern by the Grace of God" thing I hear about. My granny's sides were real Mountain Hill billies... From what I hear LOL
That side got a bit lost on me though

Where are you from?

 

[Rigatoni]

*nerd-fistbump*

Hello there Anthony
Thanks a bunch for taking time to say Hi! Heck yes! *nerd-fistbump* We are gonna have to talk about that stuff some time

Sure And sounds like a plan.

 

[Unapologetically_Wild]

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Sure And sounds like a plan.

Nick and Shmitt.... I mean what? Why do I know this??? xD

 

[timewerx]

Hi Werxy!
(I hope I can call you that ) thanks for saying hi!
Do you have a passion for kiddos too?

Lol, werxy's fine! You're welcome. Yes, I have passion for kids and they seem to like me too.

I get that Eastern European thing ALL the time. Seriously, no eastern europe in my blood at all. Just lot's of french (On both sides of my family I think...) Perhaps it's those two drops of native american I might have in me from my Great-Gramma's Side.

You do and you also look like Swede. Native American blood explains it, the Asian gene in the mix

My granny's sides were real Mountain Hill billies... From what I hear LOL
That side got a bit lost on me though

Epic! You should unleash that hill billy side of yours sometimes

Where are you from?

Somewhere in South East Asia