What's on your mind?

[bèlla]

I'd list a long list of possibilities, but sinning is something mankind has been good at forever.

Yes, but a child was hurt. Who stabs a 7yr old multiple times?

 

[DragonFox91]

Do you usually feel guilt when you err? Is it relegated to certain mishaps and not others?

I feel like this would warrant a feeling of guilt.

 

[bèlla]

I feel like this would warrant a feeling of guilt.

Are you concerned the lack of guilt suggests you don’t care?

 

[DragonFox91]

Are you concerned the lack of guilt suggests you don’t care?

yes

 

[bèlla]

yes

If you didn’t care you would not have addressed it all or be discussing it now. You’d sweep it under the rug.

God looks at the heart. He sees what lies beneath our emotions. Guilt is a rarity for me. Not because I ignore my mistakes. But I’m not into punishment and guilt can be a form of flagellation.

I look at intent and behavior. And I’m big on ownership. I may not feel sorry for what I’ve done but God’s perspective compels me to see the matter from His vantage point.

I don’t believe in empty words or saying things because I should. I have no problem acknowledging a different opinion or heart position to Him. If I don’t agree I tell Him. I trust He’ll move me in the right direction. But make believe is pointless.

 

[DragonFox91]

If you didn’t care you would not have addressed it all or be discussing it now. You’d sweep it under the rug.

God looks at the heart. He sees what lies beneath our emotions. Guilt is a rarity for me. Not because I ignore my mistakes. But I’m not into punishment and guilt can be a form of flagellation.

I look at intent and behavior. And I’m big on ownership. I may not feel sorry for what I’ve done but God’s perspective compels me to see the matter from His vantage point.

I don’t believe in empty words or saying things because I should. I have no problem acknowledging a different opinion or heart position to Him. If I don’t agree I tell Him. I trust He’ll move me in the right direction. But make believe is pointless.

Guilt can be good. It discourages a repeat.

 

[bèlla]

Guilt can be good. It discourages a repeat.

Guilt doesn’t inspire obedience in me. I equate it with fear and shame. I behave because I want to and believe it’s the right thing to do.

 

[bèlla]

@DragonFox91

Obedience is a question of will. Subjugation of our will in deference to another requires trust. We must believe their way exceeds our own; even when it doesn’t make sense.

You cannot consistently obey someone you don’t trust, respect, or believe in. You’ll have a hard time toeing the line. The ideal with obedience is internal compunction. Where the want to obey is an outgrowth of what’s correct. Not due to fear or rewards. But because it pleases Him.

That’s surrender. If negative stimuli is the only way a person yields they’re not surrendered.

 

[SarahsKnight]

You cannot consistently obey someone you don’t trust, respect, or believe in. You’ll have a hard time toeing the line. The ideal with obedience is internal compunction. Where the want to obey is an outgrowth of what’s correct. Not due to fear or rewards. But because it pleases Him.

That’s surrender. If negative stimuli is the only way a person yields they’re not surrendered.

Well said, Bella.

 

[bèlla]

Well said, Bella.

Thank you. How’s everything your way? Are you off?

 

[SarahsKnight]

How’s everything your way? Are you off?

Yes. I'm okay. Just nothing new and exciting right now. Just chillin'.

 

[sunshineforJesus]

I have some really good news,I am starting a babysitting job on monday for a little boy.
I am so happy about this as I love helping out with kids and will also be making money.

 

[SarahsKnight]

The Sarah in my name also was once given a face thanks to a friend from my other forum community, RPGMaker Magazine, who was a fan of that card game Magic the Gathering =>

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Kalinka, by the way, was also the hometown of my beloved character Sarah Nicholi Winters, mentioned here as - while starting off as an ideal - gave a physical inspiration to the "Sarah" in my name Sarah's Knight, as mentioned a short time ago here when a friend of mine from RPGMaker Magazine made a Magic the Gathering card based on her =>
What's on your mind?
I just wanted to make her the sweetest, most pure-of-heart lady imaginable.
^-^

She's not a real person (although it is true I was once in love with a lass named Sarah in my late teens, it is not her whom my name references), nor is she someone who already exists in RPG's or anime (the two foremost mediums for finding cute fictional girls for a single fellow like myself to attach himself to ).

Just an ideal, is all. Brought to life in my own story that I wrote for an RPG made with the RPGMaker 1 software, called Arc Arath, as a human girl who our group of main heroes gain the lifelong friendship of when they meet her on their adventure, and she is admired and loved by everyone around her. To me Sarah is the name of an ideal human woman of great beauty in both heart and soul, such that it illuminates through to her face and causes everyone around her to believe that they must be seeing the vision of an angel of mercy or a goddess of love in the guise of a mere human mortal. ^-^

Thought you might like to know, @bèlla , just for the sake of bringing up something "new" with me , that Draygone - another former fellow member from RPGMMag - is uploading his Let's Play of our game Arc Arath bit by bit on YouTube as of late, and so far it seems a few of Dray's fans are commenting below and sort of getting into the love story that is developing between secondary hero Dusk Langston and the above-mentioned plucky heroine Sarah Nicholi Winters. Actually it seems to be about the only part of my writing in this game that they actively like.

Hopefully they'll like the part of the game, in a month or two when Draygone gets to it, where Dusk finally confesses his love for Sarah and is shocked to hear her reciprocate. ^-^

 

[SarahsKnight]

I am starting a babysitting job on monday for a little boy.

Hopefully the boy will be easy to get along with and not turn out to be a scheming psycho like in that movie Better Watch Out.

 

[bèlla]

I have some really good news,I am starting a babysitting job on monday for a little boy.
I am so happy about this as I love helping out with kids and will also be making money.

Congratulations sunshine! What a blessing. I’m sure you’ll do well.

 

[sunshineforJesus]

Congratulations sunshine! What a blessing. I’m sure you’ll do well.

Thanks so much.

 

[sunshineforJesus]

Hopefully the boy will be easy to get along with and not turn out to be a scheming psycho like in that movie Better Watch Out.
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Thanks so much,Im sure it will go fine as this little boy is just 2.

 

[SarahsKnight]

ust wanted to ask if you could please pray for me. I'm very worried about what the coming days, or should I say the next few months, might bring for me. Thank you.

Miss Multi, it has been a few days. How are you holding up so far?

 

[SarahsKnight]

Thanks so much,Im sure it will go fine as this little boy is just 2.

Hey, I hear from most people with kids often that 2 is the worst age, though. Just not "sociopathic" levels of trouble, I guess, unlike the 12 year-old in the movie I mentioned.

But yeah, I really do hope you have only all too painless and fun a time looking after him, Sunshine.

 

[sunshineforJesus]

Thanks so much Sarahs Knight.