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RE: Smile, smile, smile - 8/26/2008 7:13:09 PM
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FunBetty
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Rosie,
I'm smiling to know that you are enjoying your new job. You worked so hard to get where you are and it's so great to see you doing what you want to do!!!
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RE: Smile, smile, smile - 8/26/2008 7:21:34 PM
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RosieCotton
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yeah.....i still pinch myself during the day, and in the middle of the night to make sure this is all for real!!!!!
**The Lord has even blessed spiritually in having churches here that are pretty amazing.**
I dont know if its just cuz everything is still pretty amazing, i'm seeing things with different shades on......but, wow.....the world does look different!  This reprieve from the internet has helped also.....i've gotten such a breather from politics and world news......its like, i can breathe again. Its like i can know i can strive and do good in my little corner of the world, and know that is well.
I know i will eventually get internet and TV.....but, i think these feelings will stay w/me! 
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RE: Smile, smile, smile - 8/26/2008 7:29:12 PM
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Rosie,
I have always loved reading about your heart for the little ones. Thanks for serving in the way you do!
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RE: Smile, smile, smile - 8/26/2008 7:31:50 PM
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FunBetty
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Yeah I really don't watch tv anymore and don't miss it. I have one show I'll stream later on in the week, but at my leisure. I'm just glad I don't have to watch the massive political campaigns and just show up and vote in November!!!! Aaaahhhh... :)
Not having to watch political commercials makes me smile BIG TIME!
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RE: Smile, smile, smile - 8/26/2008 7:59:50 PM
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mutinywxgirl
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Hey Rosie - how much rain did you get from Fay? Knowing that our largest lake is up 2 feet makes ME smile.
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We were free and made alive.
The day true love died. The day true love died.
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RE: Smile, smile, smile - 8/27/2008 9:32:06 AM
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.... reading the last few conversations makes me smile.
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RE: Smile, smile, smile - 8/27/2008 1:52:29 PM
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A really cool thing happened last night which is making me smile big time.
Have you ever noticed that when God speaks to someone else and they share often God speaks to you as well?
This happened to me last night.
God used the simple words of a child to speak to me a simple message which spoke to an issue I thought was so very complex.
As some of you know I have a friend, K, who is very dear to my heart.
Though she use to love the Lord and believed in a good God she is now agnostic.
Shortly after college she got deeply involved with a church which she attended faithfully for three years.
She drank in their doctrine and used scripture after scripture to confirm the things she was being taught.
Suddenly things switched and she no longer believed in God.
When I would ask her what happened she did not want to talk about it.
All I knew for sure was that the church had hurt her badly and because she questioned some of their doctrines she was asked to leave the church.
For over ten years I have been praying God would bring her back into His arms.
Recently I found out more about the church including why she is agnostic.
She does not believe in God because if the God she was taught about was God he was not a God to her.
The other day she and I were talking.......as she shared why she does not believe in God…”Why would I chose to follow a god who creates people only for them to be condemned in hell, then chooses others to go to heaven?” ……I did not have a response for her. I did not know some believed this to be true.
I prayed silently then opened my mouth to speak..........I told her I did not have the answers she was seeking, I did not know what she had been taught or why she would believe that the God depicted in the Bible is a God so heartless he chose to send some to hell..........but I did know the God I serve loves his children, all of them, with a love so deep, so powerful, that the love I felt for my father and you feel for your mother can not compare.
Since then I have done some reading on the theology she was taught here on CW. To be honest if God is really the God of the theology she was taught and still believes I would not want Him to be my God either..........and I can't say why, or give you a verse to dispute what she was taught but I can say with a conviction so deep that nothing will change my view......The God I have experienced........the God I have come to know personally and intimately is not the God she was taught was God.
I have been praying, searching for bible verses, reading the thread debating the theology trying to find a complex answer to what I was seeing as a complex question.
Now here is the part which is making me smile big time today..........
Last night while Kenzie was getting ready for bed she asked her mother an apparently complex question........
"Mom why did God put us on earth? If Heaven is so wonderful and he wants us there why did he make us come to earth where bad things happen? Why didn't he just put us in heaven right away?
My poor sister didn't know how to answer her question and she didn't want to give her some pat answer which would make no sense so instead she told Kenzie to ask God and see what he says. (I think my sister was hoping to stall in answering and thought Kenzie would forget the question)
She didn't.
Later, as my sister tucked her in bed and leaned down for a goodness night kiss, Kenzie spoke up.......
"Mom I talked to God"
"Oh and did he answer your questions?"
"Yes"
"What did he say?"
"That he sent us to earth so we could chose between good and bad.......and that we could chose to love him...."
My little precious niece then smiled, kissed her mother goodnight, and curled up to go to sleep.
The question was complex, the answer simple.....to the ears of a child..
Later that night as my sister recounted the story to me I couldn't help wonder why it is so hard for us to accept the simple answers.
Why do we make things so complicated? Why do we allow doctrines, theology and man's opinion of what this or that scripture means keep us from the simple answer God has to give us..........
Jesus tells us to take up His yoke (his beliefs, his interpretation of the law, his truth) for it is easy..........why do we make it so hard?
Yes today I am smiling big time.........
For God reminded me last night that the answers, to the complex questions religion demands, are found simply in a childlike faith in her loving father’s answers.
My prayer is I will always hear God's voice with the simple trust and faith of a child. That I will not allow man's doctrines, theology or understanding of scripture to make that which is simple complex.........and that I will never become so old in religion that I stop being young and innocent in my beliefs.
Yes today I am smiling big time.........
< Message edited by joy2give2u -- 8/27/2008 1:58:37 PM >
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RE: Smile, smile, smile - 8/27/2008 1:57:05 PM
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I'm smiling because I had to go deliver something to the lab I'll actually be working at (eventually) and got a fresh reminder that I don't have to stay in Austin forever. Whew! (I like the Dallas area MUCH better, personal preference).
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RE: Smile, smile, smile - 8/27/2008 1:59:33 PM
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joy2give2u
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Oh but Austin has the man of my dreams...........isn't he the man of evey woman's dreams?
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RE: Smile, smile, smile - 8/27/2008 2:07:12 PM
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joy2give2u
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Agreed............
In my opinion this is why it is so important to allow yourself to fall in love with God.......to see His face, His heart and His truth.
Scripture needs to be read through God's heart and not man's rationale.
When we read scripture with man's eyes instead of God's heart the picture of God painted fits into our way of thinking instead of His way of loving.
Make sense?
God makes me smile...........
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RE: Smile, smile, smile - 8/27/2008 2:15:11 PM
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mutinywxgirl
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I am smiling because I am truly healed from *him*.
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We were free and made alive.
The day true love died. The day true love died.
Lisa is happy THE ROWDIES ARE BACK!
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RE: Smile, smile, smile - 8/27/2008 2:42:16 PM
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hotsaucygma
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If he's the man of my dreams, should I know who he is? How can you not know who lives in Austin............where have you been hsgma? He is a legion.......so very attractive, cute, sexy,smart, has a body worth looking at, and like the pink bunny can keep going and going day after day....
Ok, I'll bite. Who is this marvel of a man? I'm too old to tease, ya know- there's just no sport in it! LOL.
Come to think of it, if there's some guy in a pink bunny suit running around Austin, you can keep him!
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RE: Smile, smile, smile - 8/27/2008 2:57:11 PM
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hotsaucygma
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I'm so confused...
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Dear Lord, let my words today be as sweet and delicious as cheesecake... for tomorrow I may have to eat them!
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