If you feel up to it, try and get to church tomorrow if you can, I'm sure you'll feel good about it once you're there. I know it can feel like so much effort and hard work to get up and go, and then have to socialise when you're there, but I'm always glad I made the effort once I'm there! Go for it, and let us know how it goes, yeah? :)
Hope everybody is doing okay, you're in my prayers xxx
Hey :) So after church today (i've just started going more regulary) someone comes up to me at the end and introduces herself etc so we're talking andi have to mention illness leaving uni and then repeated the story to a few other people who asked. I just feel guilty I'm getting sympathy for being ill, what I tell people is the problems i have with my liver, but leave out the fact that they happened because of a massive OD. Feels like I'm lyinggg
Let the Force be with you
I'm not short, I'm space efficient
I didnt end up going to church on Sunday because i had my nieces up over night and there mother wanted to come and get them at 12 noon and we wouldnt been back in time to give her the girls ...will try and go this Sunday.
Got a meeting with my pastor today at 3.30 he wants me to ask him questions and i cant think of any at all...feel like am going to be wasting his time ...
Meeting went well ...talked about a few things ...it was helpful to talk to him about things .
Going to go to the group tomorrow and make sure i go to church on Sunday.
Hi All,
Just a quick note to say hello. Not been online for a while as I have been taking a break from RYL, focussing on my recovery.
I'm doing well, no SH for over 3 weeks. Had a fight on Friday night but came through by the grace of God. Wonderful to be empowered by His word.
Praying for you all. God bless. Please feel free to PM me if I can be of any help or support.
Liz
Hey,
Found this thread when I first started using RYL, but lost it again, then had a brainwave, and asked Google.
Anyway, I was on facebook the other day, and my friend posted something and it really was the thing I needed right then, so I though I would share it on here (now I have found this thread)
Most people want God to be on their side. To say that presupposes that our side is equal to or superior to God's side. Since it isn't, I don't want God to be on my side... I want to be on God's side!
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
~ Tennessee Williams
I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad,
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.
I'm actually a girl. My nickname was given by a friend and stuck ;)
My Mental Health Team has been trying very hard for a long time to get me in to a Dialectical Behavioural Therapy Program (DBT). As the program draws from elements of Eastern religion and philosophy such as Buddhism I am wondering if this is the right program for me, or if by partaking in this I will be going against my beliefs. Even though I have done a lot of research, I don't feel I really know enough about the program yet to be able to make an educated decision on this. What are your thoughts? Has anyone else participated in DBT, how did you find it, did you feel at any time that you were compromising your beliefs or values as a Christian or are my worries unduly called for?
Emma
"Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow
No tomorrow No tomorrow And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had I find it hard to tell you" Mad World, Gary Jules
I've just bought a GBT book to help me with my depression/ I've also bought books and CDs on mindfulness in relation to pain management etc. Although meditation is an intrinsic part of Buddhist practice, it has also brrn important in Christian tradition. Much revolves round using our breath. I can use this to picture myself breathing in Christ's light, and breathin out my darkness, depression etc. The 'Kindly Awareness' areas can help us to love parts of our body which we may hate for giving us pain, and also to think about loving others.
Many Christians do use variants of this. It is so true that we cannot change the past, and we cannot foresee the future so ,as Daniel O'Donnell sings - 'I know that only this moment is mine' and the hymn 'Moment by moment I'm kept in His love.'
