Listen up, kids. I have suffered under self-proclaimed prophets. I have lived through a number of losses of various sorts. I fed a family of five, plus 2 dogs, on $30 a week in the late 1980s. I have been promoted beyond my wildest dreams, then had the whole office closed in a corporate restructuring. I have gone from well-paid management to learning how to make donuts at minimum wage, and then back up again to corporate accountant, and then laid off by a whole new company. I have built my own house with my family, and then lost both the house and the family in a divorce. There's more, and I ain't gonna tell you. But the sky is NOT falling.
I am not a pollyanna. I am realistic. People can survive without a lot of things. A LOT of things. Some things matter a lot. And some things just don't really matter much at all, even though they take up a lot of time and energy.
If you have a particular gripe with religion, or even with God himself -- get over it. You've probably bought a line of bull. Prayer is a GOOD thing. You should try it. You don't like the way it's gone for you before, or you don't like the way some people who have preached to you in the past have done their preaching or their teaching or whatever -- get over it. You WOULD be better at coping with all this latest nonsense on earth if you knew it was okay for you to talk to God as if you mattered to him.
Give it a try.
I've got other practical advice I'd be willing to hand out free for nothing. But the thing you need to know most is what I just told you. God made you. God does care how it goes for you. Have a word with him, even if you start out by yelling.
This is called hitting the nail on the head. Amen.
ReplyDeleteroflmao.. are you sure.. you're not my twin sister??
ReplyDeletelooks in mirror, then looks at your photo
ReplyDeleteyup, pretty sure I'm not your twin
calls mother on phone to be certain
nope, only got non-twin sisters
That's an awful lot of rising and falling that you've eaten up there, Rani. Well done for picking yourself up without weeping too copiously. I, too, have lived with money and then on very little, and you are perfectly right; you cope because you have to. There's a certain amount of challenge in making a few pence go that little bit further. I used to throw away the carcases of roast chicken ... I now boil the bones and make a nourishing soup from the stock produced. Just one chicken goes a long way.
ReplyDeletePraying, either by ranting or thanking, is a good means of blowing off steam about what is happening in ones life. Either way ... it keeps God close.
He Cares for you.
ReplyDeleteYes Rani...it is a lot of rising and falling. You have a wonderful attitude.
ReplyDeleteAnd remember we are all human do not expect human beings just because they preach or teach to be perfect we all make mistakes an God does forgive .But prayer is one wonderful thing and you are right Rani he listens thank s for such a wonderful post.
ReplyDeleteAmen and Amen Rani, wonderful inspiring blog!!
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