I have someone I confide in but it seems like no healing is taking place. I want to be free
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Thank you Javan for replying. You are right but it bothers me that God would just leave us to live off of thinking that he wants us here just by allowing us another day of living. How could he want me to be happy when my life is this way. I feel so alone and empty. Im just a baby sitter for my siblings and other days I stay home trying to work toward a future. I have nothing to live for. Ill never find love or have children, it seems like I'm just unlucky in that area. It's just not meant to be. I feel deprived in so many aspects of my life. I wish God blessed me with a loving father and a normal relationship with him like other growing Christians. The only area I ever see progress in my life is education but everything else (God, finding love, etc) has been a disaster.
Know 1991
Yeah, I think about that too. Because a lot of my days are not happy. I'm always fighting my thoughts and I can't seem to get anywhere with my life in a career or until recently, with love. I'm never married with no kids at 41.
Even as I wrote to you, I was really depressed because I hadn't heard from employers that I thought I would after applying..getting a career or even a job with benefits has been a depressing struggle and I've been at the point so many times of giving up because no one seems to want to hire me...I feel like my education, potential and mind are being wasted as another day goes by that i'm not being productive. I'm older and it's not like time is on my side.
I just know that if I keep trying and praying that HAS to pay off at some point...it may take years since God doesn't work according to our schedule and time frame. A lot of the things we know about Moses didn't happen in his life until he was over 40! I don't like that there's such a wait for things in life but at least I can feel some security that God knows what He is doing even when it doesn't appear that way to me.
You said you have education going for you..that's something! Lot's of people don't even get there. And you're so young still....You are living, doing things, taking responsiblity and caring for your siblings, going to school, trying to figure very complex things in a right way, dealing with your life and yourself in an honest way. You're not just existing in a an complete isolated hole and not doing anything. YOU trying to do the right thing! I see that you have a lot of potential, you just have to start to really believe it and know that other people see good things about yourself that you don't see.
I find so many times in the day that it's really my thoughts that are telling me otherwise about myself, then I believe the lie and live according that. And of course, things don't go well. I've done this for so many years and I'm just now really starting to see the lies my thoughts and satan kept flooding into me. I feel like I wasted a good decade or two of my life!
But even after all that, I don't want to give the devil the satisfaction of just throwing in the towel.
There is a verse about what God can and will do in Joel 2:25 "I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten"
This scripture is something I at least can meditate and pin some hope on.
You don't have to do what I did with my life and thoughts..easier said then done for sure.
My hope is only to encourage you Know!!! Maybe at least knowing you're not alone may help? There are other people like me and you going through similar circumstances.
Also you're already ahead of a lot of them because you're dealing with it by sharing and talking about it here. You're getting to the core of it. Some people think and feel what we do but just hide and never say much about it and escape into doing worldly things and then start developing idols (ie, things like desiring money or power, etc., first before God, or having an addiction in place of seeking God).
I admire you for how well you can express yourself and 'get it out' That is a huge step!Just keep sharing like you do here with God too! And from what you say here, you're most definitely not hiding what you really think and feel! This is a good thing! And don't ever feel you shouldn't do it. He wants to you to because at least you're being honest and not avoiding it and also because you can "cast all your care upon Him, for He cares for you" 1 Peter 5:7. God takes us as we are as long as we don't try to hide from Him and just be our real selves. Take care andKnow 1991
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Knw I agree 100% with you.
Seems like 99% of the time god doesn't care about us. I have learned that it is best not to dwell on it too much and just do what you can to get through the day.
God has his divine plan and agenda and that is more important to him than anything. So if some of us are to suffer, nothing much we can do.
But its okay cuz it won't be like this forever. One day will be dead and everything will be awesome in heaven.
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ive given up. its no use in hoping. i hope one day you will find a husband and children. i really dont understand it it seems like god enjoys seeing people suffer while other people are blessed so much. im done and i dont care anymore. i know i'll be alone forever, and never experience the blessing of having children or marriage. every time i open myself up to god things get worse. its all just a game to get my hopes up and shoot them back down. im trying to free my mind from desiring love and children.
I just don't see the point in being on cf if I don't belong and I'm not one of God's children. I'm a mistake and it doesn't hurt me. I have faced the truth of who I am and I no longer fight it.