A boy from my school died today please pray for his family
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!"
Thomas Parke D’Invilliers
... there's something going on right now that I'm trying my hardest not to deal with, but I think I'm going to have to deal with it...
It's going to take time... prayer... correction from the Word... accountability... Christian community... honesty on my part...
I don't think I'll be around much.
But, of course, if you have my cell# and/or facebook, keep in touch.
Love yous.
Hi All,
I am finaly getting myself some help and could use your prayers just to uphold me and encourage me. I've been told it's going to be tough for a few weeks but then it should get easier and better.
Your prayers would be appreciated.
God Bless
Liz
I am in love with this song. It's incredible.
(Sang it at camp, which, incidentally, I still haven't got over!)
Edit: the video didn't come up.
Click the link!
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This is by no means the best version but yeh.
"That is why, for Christ's sake,
I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships,
in persecutions, in difficulties.
For when I am weak, then I am strong"
(2 Corinthians 12:13)
Hi guys, just wanted to share how encouraging this thread has been over the past yr. I've had a pretty rough year and it feels like things are starting to gt better now tho, and it's reasuring to come on this thread and be reminded i'm not alone. And more so I'm not the only Christian in this place!
God is so good to us and if we hold onto him he'll pull us through the tough times. And be there for us all of the time, he's so awesome. He loves us no matter what guys! :D
thats really encouraging fuzzy :)
I've found it so encouraging to know that I wasn't the only Christian who SI'd, because its hard to comprehend in the grand scheme of things - People who have God have hurts too!
I saw a nooma video - that is with Rob Bell, and it was about carrying around our hurts and not forgiving. And It hit me so hard. It doesn't just apply to forgiving the people who hurt us, but also to forgiving ourselves for hurting us too. Its kinda hard to do but the vid was so encouraging. Its called luggage if anyone felt like watching it.
But yeah. I was thinking really recently, that its not believing in God that made me a Christian - I always kind of have done deep down, and it didn't make me want to commit my life to Him, but when I sat down, and thought about it, I realised how much I need God. I have everything in my life that I could possibly need and yet...I didn't have God in my life and so there felt to be a massive hole in my life that I couldn't fill and thats where depression and SI and an ED came in, to fill that hole. Of course it was never going to work but that feeling went away when I became Christian...although the bad feelings haven't gone by any means...I've been hurt and its still painful. I think I just jammed a rock in the wounds to keep them open though as a coping mechanism. But at least I feel complete. That was the only thing I could have hoped for! God is so incredible though. Wow.
I'm praying for you all <3
"That is why, for Christ's sake,
I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships,
in persecutions, in difficulties.
For when I am weak, then I am strong"
(2 Corinthians 12:13)
Im new to this thread and I just want to say that God has helped me immensely in my recovery from s.i. I cant even begin to say how much he has helped me. Im still struggling daily but with God and your prayers I know that I can overcome.♥
Im new here to the forums. and this one caught my eye. i have grown up in a christian family my whole life, apparently causeof my cutting i am demoon possesed. i have been a christian since i was 16 and i am now 20. my faith was the strongest in my teen years. Pastors adored me, and a christian camp relyied on my strength as a christian to help the camp through hard times. and yet i still managed to become in a place where it seems like christians done understand me. i was given up on by many christians i used to work with out at the camp. being called impossible and never to recovery and just that i was repeating myself (sorry this sounds a little like venting) its not that i have given up on GOd, its just that my life has slipped away from him becasue i have seen so many christians give up one me. I am reminded of the time at camp where our leader was talking how we are the workers of God what people see in us is what they will see of God. and the way they treated me i look at God in a different way.Does he also give up on me like pretty much everyone else has. or is he actually different from them. and i just feel so apart from him because i pushed him away cause i was scared he would do the same thing that it feels like everyone else has.
abandoned me
Hey...welcome to ryl! I hope it helps you here...we're all praying for and supporting you :)
At times, I feel that God will give up on me too, because of the things I do, but this passage helps me a lot..
"For I am convinced, that neither death nor life, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 9v38-39.
I found it so encouraging to know that our status with Him is never changed - God will never give up on us no matter what we do or how little faith we have sometimes - and we're still saved.
"I am with you always, to the end of the age" Matthew 28v20.
<3
"That is why, for Christ's sake,
I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships,
in persecutions, in difficulties.
For when I am weak, then I am strong"
(2 Corinthians 12:13)
Oops sorry! Romans 8! I got a bit confused, but yeah its my favourite chapter in life :D
"That is why, for Christ's sake,
I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships,
in persecutions, in difficulties.
For when I am weak, then I am strong"
(2 Corinthians 12:13)
"When at last I cling to you with my whole being there will be no more anguish or labor for me, and my life will be alive indeed, alive because filled with you. But now it is very different. Anyone whom you fill you also uplift; but I am not full of you, and so I am a burden to myself. Joys over which I ought to weep do battle with sorrows that should be matter for joy, and I do not know which will be victorious. But I also see griefs that are evil at war in me with joys that are good, and I do not know which will win the day. This is agony, Lord, have pity on me! It is agony! See, I do not hide my wounds; you are the physician and I am sick; you are merciful, I in need of mercy."
Augustine. Even some 1700 years later, his words hit hard.
Don't ever let anyone convince you that we need to be good or strong or perfect to be christians--if anything, the opposite is true. If you're anything like me you look around at all the "good" christians and feel inferior...but here's Augustine, arguably one of the most famous christians of all time, expressing how I feel all the time. We may be broken, we may mess up, we may be sinners...but so is every other human on the planet.
“The good things don’t always soften the bad, but vice-versa, the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant.”
“Nobody important? Blimey, that’s amazing. Do you know, in nine hundred years of time and space I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important before.”
“If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best. My friends have always been the best of me.”
Yeah it really was an amazing read. Theres a poem that would probably go quite nicely with the article. Called broken, i think. Though I think I first saw it on the thread...but not sure. haha.
Pointless post!
"That is why, for Christ's sake,
I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships,
in persecutions, in difficulties.
For when I am weak, then I am strong"
(2 Corinthians 12:13)
You make me want to dance and sing at the top of my voice. You're the highlight of my day, the one who gets me, the face across the room. You're the song I can't get out of my head. Your eyes pull me in. You're the letter I'll never send, the poem I wish I could write. You’re the sunrise, the rolling clouds, the rain. I see bits of you everywhere.
"That is why, for Christ's sake,
I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships,
in persecutions, in difficulties.
For when I am weak, then I am strong"
(2 Corinthians 12:13)
sorry if this has been raised before - forgive me if it has!
Do you celebrate halowe'en? do you think a person is a 'true' christian if they do?
personally, i do not celebrate halowe'en. It goes against a lot of things i believe in and i don't think people should worship acts of mischief/nonsense, the rising of the dead etc. Yes, halowe'en used to be a more formal celebration, and now it is considered more fun, but still, i am not sure about it.
I have an open mind on whether you are a 'true' christian if you do celebrate, or, get involved with halowe'en.
But, i am shocked at the nasty deeds people do commit on that night with the 'trick or treating'.
I remember when i was young, i went to a halowe'en party and the people i was with were horrible. There were old, scared, frail people inside their houses, and, my friends targeted them.
If they didn't answer the door, guess what they did?
They threw eggs, rotten tomatoes and quirted silly string at their windows and front doors. This shocked me.
being a christian is about helping others, not terrorising others don't you think?
So yeah, feel free to reply! xxx
Last edited by in-a-pickle : 29-09-2009 at 08:58 AM.
