welp, i had fun eating breakfast with all of them... a lot of fun. those crapes were of course delicious, and i totally could ahve won, but alas, i wanted to be the humble one haha.
i noticed several things, one hannah can tackle lke a 300 lbs man, and she didn't have a camera on her, miriam is afraid of frizbees (or however you spell that) and that the works children are very violent, lol. makes you wanna laugh so hard you cry, lol. good times. hehe, anyway, hhope to see and or hear from you soon, bye!
laughing till i drop,
dr.laugh >:)
well, first of all, for years i have tried and tried, and i have felt no love for god. none. i've tried everything, camps, meeting, the whittsitts, but i've just felt nothing. for the longest time i've had to put up a charade around my dad and others, and im TIRED of it. so many things... and i gained nothing. then, my dad and i got into this huge argument, and i wanted to avoid him, so i just did't go to church. then, i started to feel kinda free. i din't have to lie to myself. most of my wanting to quit came with a lesson at a gospel meeting, where the preacher said you could save the whole world, but if you didn't love god, you still wouldn't make it. so, here i am. i wanted to do soooo much, i wanted to be a preacher, i wanted to lead singings, i wanted to save everyone. then two things hit me: one, that sermon. two, that i was doing all this just for my dad. i was a robot, and i now have a real brain. i can think for myself, and i know what i want. i still want to save the whole world, but in a more impacting way than you all. through what i want to do, people like gary can go and preach to others. im just tired of it all....
and once again hannah, im very, very, VERY sorry. i didn't mean to put this on your shoulders...
and yeah, there are too many i's. but thats what going on with "me" right now. ^ that is whats more important, but i figured you gys would be on that one...i forgot who i was talking to.
We know that there will never be peace on earth and the world isn't perfect. What we need to focus on is things God has answered prayers about, and continue to pray about current events.
struggles? starving is a struggle? having you country hit by a giant storm and having thousands being hit is a struggle? being hunted down by your government for no reason is a STRUGGLE!?! we don't know "struggles". we know how to complain and make light of things though don't we? yeah, i can handle sexual tempatations, tmeptaions to curse, but thats not what im talking about.
aaron, You are my brother and have been for a long time, i love you so dearly, and everything that im gonna say to you is for your benefit...YOU'RE RIGHT...things aren't getting better God isn't changing those things, if He wanted to he could make the world as pure as could be in an instant...but the question is...do people deserve God's deliverance? Did we deserve the sacrifice of Christ? no and no. once we get to a point to where we expect our God to show us mercy and grace is the moment we'll lose those two things. People have tribulations, people have illnesses, and yes people starve, and our Lord, our Keeper is still in control, even if He doesn't attend to every one of our needs in OUR time. It's in the Lord's time. Aaron i love you as a dear brother and it is my prayer that you might see that i say these things out of love and not anger, i say them in the effort to show you that we're not promised a blessed life and that we need to develope our love any way...I'll tell ya aaron i got to a point like yours in so much as not loving God, but you know what i did, i kept coming to church, i started praying and studying my Bible again and what im trying to say if you truly seek out the Lord our God diligently you will find him and all the love you could ever have, keep in mind love isn't an impulsive response its an intended deliberate effort for someone else.
so, to love god, you made yourself think you loved him? ok. although i must say, your the only one who's really made any points here. but i can't serve a god who will hold the "i made you and sacrificed for you" thing over my head. i mean, if he's gonna give us free will, if we don't want him in our lives, why doesn't he go then? and as for ALL the people that suffer in this world, yeh, we're both right: god isn't doing ANYTHING. so whats the point?
The point is aaron that God works things out as He sees fit, and no sometimes you can't make sense of it but i know that you know its written that His ways are not our ways His thoughts are not our thoughts, and to put it out there i think there's some discrepancy on what you think love is and what i think love is...love is not a mushy, emotional feeling, love is an active good will like described in 1 Cor. 13:4-7, so in otherwords i didn't "make myself think i loved him" i followed through on His commandments which in turn showed me that I love him because loving someone (in this case God) is working as hard as you can to make them happy.
i also want to say that im not sayin this to argue with you or in the im right you're wrong mentality, it's just that you and i both know that there'll be a judgement someday, and you, me, and everyone else will eventually have to give an answer for our wrong doing if not we're not repentant, im sayin these things because i know if im to go astray someday i hope and pray that my brothers will care enough about me to talk with me about it.
im sorry, but it all boils down to the fact that i don't see the point in praying to god, of for that matter, following him if he isn't going to change the things that NEED to be changed. and i know what the love thing is, but as i said, i just have lost the will to serve what i feel is a giant say it and don't do it politician.
im listening aaron i see that you want that fixed and many other issues, but that fact remains, it won't make sense to you to me to anyone, because ultimatly God is smarter, wiser, and much more powerful than anything else and its not that he's off duty, its not that he thinks starvation isn't important, its just that there are things more important than food, more important than personal rights, more important than all of OUR issues.
one thing that i know to be more important than all the things that the normal person worries about...eternity...whether living forever in God's presence or in eternal torment, that what it all boils down to and once a man or woman has it figured out so far as where they want to be for eternity everything else just is not as important
Dude, what you gotta keep in perspective is that this world is toast to begin with. God's gonna destroy it, this is all temporary. It is never going to be healed or fixed. WHY? Because sin entered this place, and with sin is suffering and death. We don't look to this world as a place that can be fixed, it's already lost. But this life is just a first chapter in an eternal story, what matters is where you will spend eternity after this life. That's why we as christians focus on people's souls rather than wars and pestilence. Man, there are things more important than these.
It may look as though Satan is winning...but really...he's not...God is in control and God has a plan. When Jesus was crucified Satan thought he had won, that he had beat God. But he hadn't at all.... That was God's plan. Instead of Satan winning like he thought he had...that had opened up the oppertunity for our soul;s to be saved. God is always winnning...so don't get discouraged when it looks like Satan is....cause he isn't....
Either you are joking, in which case it is not funny, or you are serious, in which case that is probably the most stupid thing you've done- including your batarang episode.
