What's on your mind?

[sampa]

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[sunshineforJesus]

I did all the decorating today except for a few things,we havent done any baking yet
and Im still working on my Christmas shopping.

 

[sampa]

I did all the decorating today except for a few things,we havent done any baking yet
and Im still working on my Christmas shopping

Great that you got the decorations up. It makes everything feel so much more like the Christmas season. My department head has renovations going on in her house so she was so happy to see we had decorated after she got back from her vacation. I will start my baking this weekend. Going to take a media break starting Saturday for about 5 days so that I can get stuff done.

 

[SarahsKnight]

I did all the decorating today except for a few things,we havent done any baking yet
and Im still working on my Christmas shopping.

Curious all of a sudden. Do you frequent the mall for your shopping ventures, still, Nicole? If any still exist where you live?


I just remember really liking being at malls a child, .... so long as I wasn't stuck having to tag along at all of the clothing stores that my older sister just had to meticulously peruse in the exact same order every time, of course (ugh ... The GAP, Banana Republic, Abercrombie and Fitch ....). I was the boy out of our sibling pairing, after all; I was all about the arcades, electronics stores, and bookstores. .... And the one place where you can buy giant soft pretzels.

 

[GospelS]

And am I the only one who gets really turned off by people who have extremely religious Facebook profiles? Faith is extremely important, but there's more to life than that.

My friend, I think extremely religious or even religious anywhere can be dangerous. I understand what you mean. But you can show them how to be religious without having a religious profile or rejoice with them because they are your fellow brethren in the Lord. If it turns me off, I would examine myself first.

Who knows, the Lord may have told them to subdue Facebook for Christ. Everything is through Him and for Him. In this extremely dark world, I say let His name be proclaimed aloud, and people fill the world with His praises and with His light everywhere, every website, every media.

May there be nothing more to life but Christ in everything we do and say. They may not be perfect, but they are delighting in Him and not intending any harm but good. If anyone is doing it wrongly, God is still good. They will learn, and He will use everything. (I don't have a Facebook account).

 

[GospelS]

.... which leads me to this. I am going to be as real as I can here.


I failed greatly as a knight today. Somehow, I kept trying to change, to do better, to not let the mistakes made in the day already get me down, but ... somehow I just kept falling. I committed many sins of being very ... mouthy, shall we say ... and at some points outright mean-spirited. I was behaving very shamefully today, and let the stress of a certain bad prospect at work in particular cause me to ... well, display that stress in a bad way. Barely a kind word was to be heard from me this go-round, I fear. I dare say, had someone like my good friend and comrade in knighthood @Multifavs been present, I fear I would have shocked her sensibilities pretty badly and would not be able to blame her if she expressed some measure of doubt that I am even the same Sarah's Knight who she's known for almost five years now over the Internet.

I wish to confess this to all of you as well as the Lord. Please pray for me to do much better next time. It might be difficult to given the normal state of my environment at work most days, on my normal crew, but it's no excuse not to try. And it is ultimately no excuse for failure.

You are loved and forgiven before you even did anything right or wrong. He has already seen all your failures/sins/mistakes and He still calls you good. He smiles when we fall and run to Him for help. You are a successful Knight.

 

[angelsaroundme]

I would have never imagined America's The Good Doctor was based on a Korean show.

 

[Vinter]

I bought a new couch and it arrived today. I am super happy with my purchase. I bought it online without trying it out, but I had a good feeling about it. I thank God for that good feeling.

My old couch is 10 years old is realy worn out.

On another note. I am reading Acts from the Bible. Phillip is named Stefanus in the Danish Bible.

Some names are close to each like in the Gospels Matthew is named Matthæus, Mark is named Markus, Luke is named Lukas, John is named Johannes, but I realy think there is a long way between the the names Phillip and Stefanus.

 

[SarahsKnight]

You are loved and forgiven before you even did anything right or wrong. He has already seen all your failures/sins/mistakes and He still calls you good. He smiles when we fall and run to Him for help. You are a successful Knight.

You have my gratitude, Miss Gospel.

 

[Multifavs]

.... which leads me to this. I am going to be as real as I can here.


I failed greatly as a knight today. Somehow, I kept trying to change, to do better, to not let the mistakes made in the day already get me down, but ... somehow I just kept falling. I committed many sins of being very ... mouthy, shall we say ... and at some points outright mean-spirited. I was behaving very shamefully today, and let the stress of a certain bad prospect at work in particular cause me to ... well, display that stress in a bad way. Barely a kind word was to be heard from me this go-round, I fear. I dare say, had someone like my good friend and comrade in knighthood @Multifavs been present, I fear I would have shocked her sensibilities pretty badly and would not be able to blame her if she expressed some measure of doubt that I am even the same Sarah's Knight who she's known for almost five years now over the Internet.

I wish to confess this to all of you as well as the Lord. Please pray for me to do much better next time. It might be difficult to given the normal state of my environment at work most days, on my normal crew, but it's no excuse not to try. And it is ultimately no excuse for failure.

I think we've all been there. We all have times when we get so stressed and upset that we don't think about what we say. This is something that is VERY familiar to me and I cringe when I remember some of the things I said before without thinking. It's very easy to do.

But you haven't failed as a knight! It takes courage to confess your mistakes, and that is a trait a knight should have. You can always try to do better in the future and learn from your mistakes. I'm sure God forgives you, and we will too.

 

[Multifavs]

OMM:

-I've been considering writing a Christian fanfiction for Christmas this year. It'll only be my second attempt at a Christian story so I hope it will turn out okay!

-It's so refreshing and inspiring to see that there are Christian fanfictions and fanart out there. When you're a Christian gamer, what could be better than your favorite characters sharing your faith? But it's also frustrating to see people, even fellow believers, making rude and disrespectful comments like "Leave religion out of this!!" and etc. Leave the artists and writers alone! If people are allowed to add all kinds of inappropriate garbage that wouldn't normally be in the series, then they should certainly be allowed to add Christian themes!

-I had a very weird yet interesting dream last night...at first I was almost thinking it would make a good story, but considering how mixed-up it was and that I only remember half the details now, I don't think it would work.

 

[SarahsKnight]

I think we've all been there. We all have times when we get so stressed and upset that we don't think about what we say. This is something that is VERY familiar to me and I cringe when I remember some of the things I said before without thinking. It's very easy to do.

But you haven't failed as a knight! It takes courage to confess your mistakes, and that is a trait a knight should have. You can always try to do better in the future and learn from your mistakes. I'm sure God forgives you, and we will too.

Looks like Lady Multi has come to the rescue of her comrade in distress, Sir Will, who was surrounded and wounded by all manner of evil entities on the battlefield last night, before they could close in for the final blow. ^-^

But, really, I ask for prayers again on something in particular. That "bad prospect" that stressed me out at one point yesterday at work is something I am going to ask my immediate superior at work to make arrangements for me to stay away from when it comes back to the lab in a couple of weeks. I really don't want to sound mean, but, it's about a person who has been out for over a month due to a bad knee (and I wish him no ill fortune in that, mind you), and, the way it had been panning out for several months due to his performance at work and ... unpleasant nature in some regards, we figured he was gone for good. That being out of action would be his excuse for not coming back, or it'd be just the excuse management needed to finally let him go. ... But he's returning in a couple of weeks and we fear it will all be from square one. We all have to take part in training him, and I just don't want to. All it did was cause me stress - to where I would have wholly rather have done all the work on my own - and it isn't entirely this guy's fault. I just don't think I am an ideal trainer in general, even if I seem to have high marks on my own work performance. Teaching it well to someone else is often another matter entirely. It didn't help that one of the last things the guy did before going on leave due to physical problems early last month, was to attempt throw us all under the bus in a desperate attempt to take the heat off of himself for constantly being in trouble due to messing up various things. All of these things together, the thought of having to deal with them again when he returns, just really caused me to stress out, not in a huge outburst thankfully, but in little ways that kind of made me unpleasant company to everyone else for the remainder of the day. I mean, I could have handled it a lot better; despite my reasons for not liking this guy or wanting to be around him, there was really no reason for me to reflexively crush the cup of ice water I was holding and spill it all over the table, or cause a vein in my forehead to apparently crack and bleed even more heavily than it already was. =/ ... I think I was a tad overdramatizing on my reaction to the thought of having to go through these frustrations all over again for several months to come just when we'd all imagined it was over and we'd never have to deal with training the guy again. I mean, if I literally cause myself to bleed harder from a scratched forehead when stressful news reaches me, I think it's safe to say that I did not handle it well.

In all seriousness, this guy I am speaking of is much better off elsewhere, anyway. Some of us just aren't naturally suited for this kind of work, and you can say that about any job, really. He always said he'd be able to go back to his former profession no problem anyway, if the day came that he ever finally got fired. A part of me feels sorry for him because of the way things have gone in the lab for him, despite that whole bit where he tried to drag us all down with him when he got into trouble.

I really don't want to put myself in this unpleasant and stressful situation again if it can be helped. So I am going to ask that arrangements be made for me to avoid having to take part in any of his re-training. This might mean that I have to work in a separate area about one third of the time - an area that I am not as experienced in as it is not my primary lab that I was initially trained in and work in on a normal, daily basis - or that I might have to go to a schedule for a while where I am entirely on the day shift for several months, and while that might be better healthwise to not alternate between day and night shift as much as we have to do, it does mean a slightly heavier workload on a daily basis and having the underlying tense atmosphere of the management being around. I have been off of Nel's radar for a long time now, it seems, so I might not have to worry about dealing with that particular stress by being on days all of the time. Please pray that this will work out no matter what, and that whatever happens, I will behave properly, not letting the stress get to me and end up setting a poor example for the others.

 

[SarahsKnight]

-I had a very weird yet interesting dream last night...at first I was almost thinking it would make a good story, but considering how mixed-up it was and that I only remember half the details now, I don't think it would work.

I say the same thing about a lot of my dreams, some of which I described on here for everyone to the best of my memory and ability to convey myself through writing. .... But one of these days, the dream is just not going to leave my mind and I will finally cave in and write myself a best-selling novel.

 

[sampa]

bought a new couch and it arrived today. I am super happy with my purchase. I

Congratulations on the couch! I'm sure it feels pretty good.

My old couch is 10 years old is realy worn out.

I think my couch is 5 years old but it's still like new since I have barely used it. I pretty much never turn on TV and since the pandemic I have used it a whole lot more. Mostly when I go through a series of DVDs that I check out at the library. Nothing seems to be good on TV except stuff about murders. But I guess that's what you get for free. I've never paid a subscription in my life.

Some names are close to each like in the Gospels Matthew is named Matthæus, Mark is named Markus, Luke is named Lukas, John is named Johannes, but I realy think there is a long way between the the names Phillip and Stefanus.

I'm glad that you're enjoying your study and that you are discovering nuggets of facts about the bible. It's fun when you get engaged and go down a rabbit hole into looking up different information. Much more of a meditation on the word.

Teaching it well to someone else is often another matter entirely. It didn't

praying for you my brother and knight. I'm sure it's a very difficult situation. At least you recognize your boundaries and where your assets may be better used in other areas.

 

[sampa]

On my mind: I wish I had more friends like this, but there's a guy (strong believer) I knew in the Army days and he married and had kids and they have this great sense of humor. I meet very few Christians that are like they are -always laying out their faults or they're adult children's faults and creating humorous post.. I recently just got back on social media. I can't help but share his latest.

"The bible is full of inspiring verses"


This is a classic example of context. And of course his wife has a great sense of humor and called out his name after she saw this.

I hope someday to develop a great sense of humor like this couple. They are so many miles away from me but I am glad to continue to stay in touch with them three decades later.

 

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[sunshineforJesus]

Curious all of a sudden. Do you frequent the mall for your shopping ventures, still, Nicole? If any still exist where you live?


I just remember really liking being at malls a child, .... so long as I wasn't stuck having to tag along at all of the clothing stores that my older sister just had to meticulously peruse in the exact same order every time, of course (ugh ... The GAP, Banana Republic, Abercrombie and Fitch ....). I was the boy out of our sibling pairing, after all; I was all about the arcades, electronics stores, and bookstores. .... And the one place where you can buy giant soft pretzels.

I went to a mall the other day that was three stories and loved it,We have several within an hr of where I live but that one is my absolute favorite. Ever since I was a little kid I have always loved shopping of any sort,including grocery shopping. What I dont like is shopping with my mom at the mall since me and here like very different kinds of stores,and I prefer my freedom to look where I want.

 

[GospelS]

You have my gratitude, Miss Gospel.

Share your stress with the Lord in all circumstances and throughout your day. It will all turn out well, and you will do excellently. Rest in Him and let Him carry you in all things. May the Lord remove stress and give you strength and wisdom to deal with stress. Amen