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What On Own Now said, word-for-word. Ann wrote:Nothing can separate us from the love of God. . . .unless we let it.
I really like that, thank you! (:
On Own Now wrote:blue_bird,
I want to be completely honest here, but please don’t take this the wrong way; I am merely expressing my own angst about this situation… I’ve started a couple of replies to you and not finished them, because of the uniqueness of your situation. So here it is… I must admit that I feel sheepish about even addressing you on these forums because you are someone else’s child and no matter how nice and wise and caring we might all seem, nobody cares about you like your own family. It’s not really our place to give you advice or counsel outside of earshot of your parents.
So, I would encourage you to seek out the best aspects of the church and try to make them a part of who you are… not a checkbox item from someone else’s list, but something about you. Easy experiment: think of going to church not as a requirement to enter the Celestial Kingdom, or as a Pharisaical devotion, but think of it as an opportunity to worship Jesus, the Messiah, the Great Teacher, who gave his life to offer a “new life” to all of us.
I completely understand your point on my family, my mom knows I’m on this site and is in full support. I really appreciate your advice on internalizing aspects of the gospel, Ive never considered church from that standpoint before and Ill be sure to give it a try this Sunday (:
Orson wrote:
Remember this much:God is in the
truth, NOT the expectations. Nobody’s words are as important as your own listening to the Spirit of truth and love. Wow, that was very enlightening. I”m very much a people-pleaser. I’ve got to learn to put God’s opinion before peoples.
hawkgrrrl wrote:blue_bird –
One caution I will give you is that everything you read or are told, in the church or outside the church, absolutely everything is written from a biased perspective. Whoever wrote it or said it had a point of view and a point to make. There’s no such thing as objective history or objectivity about human emotions.
Interesting..Never thought if it like that before.
I’m a former history teacher. Take a look sometime at history textbooks about the Civil War (or, The War of Northern Aggression, as one of my Alabama students once called it) published from northern and southern viewpoints – or a Japanese textbook about WWII. Watch Fox News and MSNBC present the exact same event from two days ago. Interesting stuff.
Ain’t no such thing as perfect objectivity. We all see through a glass, darkly – to varying degrees of enlightenment, but still not clearly.
I wanted to go back through your original post one more time: Quote:I feel like I have all of a sudden fallen into a deep hole where I can no longer feel the Spirit or find answers to my questions.
Life is long. Our spirituality ebbs and flows. There are times you feel totally attuned, and other times when you don’t. It’s part of the human experience. But it does change over time, and it changes throughout your life. Try not to feel impatient (easier said than done).
Quote:I also feel that God is very angry with me, and I feel like I cannot communicate with Him the way I used to.
God is not angry with you. I just don’t believe that. God condemns anger. God is full of forgiveness, love and acceptance. Anger is a very human emotion. I suspect you feel judged by people who in your mind are obscuring your view of God. Sometimes you have to set aside the institution and people of the church in your mind and simply stay connected to God. Read the New Testament, and you will feel pretty clearly that Jesus was pro-individual and against the institutions people create.
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