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| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 1161 Registered: 12-2003 |
We want to tell all of you how thankful we are for you and for your loving support to us and to each other. We also praise God for His work in your and our lives, and we pray for you and for this forum continually. We are about to have some guests over for the evening, but we wanted to wish all of you a happy new year first. Isn't it awesome to know that God is already in our 2005! Praise Him for his faithfulness and provision for each of us. Love, Richard and Colleen | ||
| Helovesme2 Registered user Username: Helovesme2 Post Number: 86 Registered: 8-2004 |
Happy New Year to each and every one! I'm glad you're a part of my life! May God guide and bless each one. helovesme2 | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 868 Registered: 3-2004 |
A very hearty Happy New Year to each of you. You have blessed me with your presence here and I thank God for each of you. I, too, am so happy that you are a part of my life. God bless each of you as we enter this new year together knowing that we are saved. Knowing each of you always reminds me of how awesome God is because of the way he works in yours and my life and as we share with each other. Diana | ||
| Dennis Registered user Username: Dennis Post Number: 265 Registered: 4-2000 |
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! It never ceases to amaze me how God leads us year by year. Even though God is beyond time and space, as members of His wonderful family, we can count our many blessings as we close yet another chapter in the annals of history. As Diana would say, "God is awesome." May 2005 be your best year ever! Dennis Fischer | ||
| Carol_2 Registered user Username: Carol_2 Post Number: 215 Registered: 2-2002 |
Happy New Year dear friends! You are all such a blessing to me! Just a few more minutes until the new year out here in the eastern time zone. I pray for God to hold us close in the coming year, and especially pray for the people suffering such loss in Asia. I also thank God that now, when things like the tsunamis happen, I am not terrified, believing the world is about to end, thinking I'll be lost...but trust in Him, and know He is in control. I love you all, Carol | ||
| Susan_2 Registered user Username: Susan_2 Post Number: 1280 Registered: 11-2002 |
I want to extend a wish on each of you, my internet frinds, to have a wonderful 2005. As for me, well, I hope you keep me and mine in your prayers as 2004 was a dreadful year. The good part is that I just don't see how 2005 coud possible be any worse than 2004 was so life can only get better. I am diligently trying to make some necessary changes in my life. Rock on. | ||
| Melissa Registered user Username: Melissa Post Number: 646 Registered: 7-2003 |
Happy new year to everyone! I've been off for a week holidaying and "moving" into my new house. I'm hip deep in boxes, but happy to have my new home just the same. Hope everyone had a great Christmas as well. I hope to catch up on reading the posts over the next few days to see what everyone has been up to! Welcome to the new folks too. | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 1164 Registered: 12-2003 |
Melissa, I'm glad you're back! I've been praying for your move and all the details that go with it. Glad you're in your new house! Colleen | ||
| Melissa Registered user Username: Melissa Post Number: 649 Registered: 7-2003 |
Thank you for the prayers! I certainly noticed them...things went amazingly smooth. I will enjoy the house more when I'm a little more organized and my other one is sold.... | ||
| Tracey Registered user Username: Tracey Post Number: 129 Registered: 9-2004 |
Happy New Year everyone! I love you all and thank God for you all! The support through this time in my life has been wonderful. It was a relief to know that there were people out there that knew what I was going through. Right now, we are not together. I am tired and don't see the end in sight. Keep him in your prayers. Love Tracey | ||
| Helovesme2 Registered user Username: Helovesme2 Post Number: 87 Registered: 8-2004 |
Sure will Tracey! And I'll keep you in my prayers too! helovesme2 | ||
| Melissa Registered user Username: Melissa Post Number: 650 Registered: 7-2003 |
Tracey, You're in my prayers and I hope you can find peace with the decision. For what it's worth, I think it's the right one. Keep in touch. | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 1166 Registered: 12-2003 |
Tracey, I'm sorry for your heartache. I'll keep you in my prayers as well. I'll pray that God will heal your heart and keep you grounded in truth and in His will. With prayers for you and C, Colleen | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 887 Registered: 3-2004 |
Tracey, You are in my prayers also, along with C. As you have seen the hold Adventism has on people is strong, in spite of what you show them from the Bible. God will heal your heart. He is carrying you at this very moment and He will not put you down until He knows you are ready. God is so loving and awesome. Diana | ||
| Tracey Registered user Username: Tracey Post Number: 130 Registered: 9-2004 |
Thank you all. Here's what made my decision -- A dream (as always)the Lord spoke to me in. C and I were under a picnic shelter and a family came under the shelter with us. they were friendly and began to talk to us. C went off somewhere and I continued to talk with them. An old grandmother was sitting on one of the benches under that shelter and I seee her and she asks me: "Is that your friend?" as Chris walks away. I answered, Yes, that's my boyfriend. She then asks " Are you dating to be dating or are you two dating for marriage?" I answer " We are dating to be married". So Then she asks "Well, what's been holding you back?" I tell her " We disagree on biblical doctrines". She then warns me "You NEVER marry someone that disagrees with you on biblical doctrines!". Immediately, i began to cry out to the Lord and praising God. From my very belly, deep in my soul, I cried out of relief that I had an answer from the Lord. And I jjust cried Thank you Lord Thank you Lord, over and over again!! I woke up. And I was just in shock. My dream was giving me the next step that I must take. Grateful? yes? relieved? not really. in denial? yes. hurt? yepper dan! I told C this dream and how the woman of God warned me against marrying someone who didn't agree with me on biblical doctrines. And that I couldn't marry him. Which meant why date any longer? So sad. C sent me an email saying he missed me already. What are the chances him losing me will compel him to search for the truth with fervency? none probably. But I continue to pray for him, because I do believe that he is on his way to coming into it. Oddly, his siblings, really don't care about SDA. But what his parents think matter so much to him. My dreams from the Lord, give me strength to do what I did. I wish I never fell in love with him. I wish I had only witnessed to him. Maybe being apart, he will search the scriptures and read and watch the materials that I gave him. You all are the best for the support. 2005 has got to get better for my heart, right? Tracey | ||
| Praisegod Registered user Username: Praisegod Post Number: 188 Registered: 3-2004 |
((((Tracey)))) We are here for you any time you need to talk. I greatly admire your courage and fortitude for following God over your heart. I know it wasn't easy. You've planted the seeds of the Gospel. Now take the time for your own heart to heal and for God to water the seeds you planted. Praise God... | ||
| Melissa Registered user Username: Melissa Post Number: 655 Registered: 7-2003 |
Tracey, I wondered all those questions. I can only tell you that "losing me" in B's mind seemed part of his "persecution" for the sabbath and God and in a strange sort of way, he seems to think he's more loyal to God for "letting me go" than questioning or researching anything I ever told to him. I even wondered if our son would make a difference...but it hasn't. If anything, he has become a more strict SDA/vegetarian, "sabbathkeeper" than ever before. He used to at least do things on Friday night. He seems to have rather lost the relationship than question adventism. And I won't be second to a religion. God, yes, but not the way it is with adventism. It's like this huge wall I can't get around without becoming part of the group itself. It is something I have never seen in my dating years. It is very hard to let go of someone you care about and who cares about you because it is going no where. I used lots of excuses...including the fact that there weren't a lot of men interested in a woman with a retarded child. But in the end, I realized I was undercutting myself with such thoughts. I have incredible peace now, even though there are intermittent moments of terror. I have watched God do things in my life in the last few months that have left me speechless. (quite a feat, as I tend to be "chatty"). And I have a new house to decorate to disrupt too much solitude. Your stories of God speaking to you in dreams has been very fascinating to me. I've never known someone to get dreams like you. Thanks for sharing them. | ||
| Tracey Registered user Username: Tracey Post Number: 132 Registered: 9-2004 |
I don't know.. We talked for 2 hours just now and I told him, that keeping sabbath should be viewed more as a personal worship than a certain way to do it right or wrong.. And in your personal worship to the Lord, you decide what you want to do and know that there are no consequences for HOW you choose to do it. It took 2 hours to make him understand that point and That actually stuck with him. He said may be we are making some headway. My witnesssing seems to be much better when I am away from the relationship. And this time, I witnesssed to him w/o feelings involved. The exact same way that I do to others.. I am amazed! We are still staying apart though! Thank you for the words Praise God and Melissa. Melissa, he believes in my dreams and I think he's afraid of losing me. | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 1176 Registered: 12-2003 |
Tracey, I'm thankful you believed your dream. There's no way to know what effect this may have on him--his hurt will probably make him want to bridge the gap between you at least somewhat, but whether or not that might be a real surrender, I wouldn't know. I have to say that my advice would be similar to what I'd say to someone who broke up with an addicted person. Stay uninvolved. Let time pass. Allow him to get over the shock and to heal without contactng you. Only then will you know if he really will pursue the truth, and only then will you know if he does it for himself or just to get you back. Let God heal you, as PraiseGod said. As your heart heals, you will begin to see that even this, God will redeem--possibly in ways you have no way even to glimpse right now. If I had my life to live over, I would do so many things differently. Yet even going through a divorce has been part of what God used to bring me to Himself and to make me see how helpless I was. This relationship will not be wasted. In Jesus' hands, it will become a profound place of new strength and blossoming you could not have known any other way. It will hurt terribly, but Jesus' peace and faithfulness will not fail. With prayers for you, Colleen | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 891 Registered: 3-2004 |
Tracey, You are a courageous young lady. God has been and will continue to carry you until your heart heals. What Colleen says is true. God does redeem everything that happens in our lives. If I had not divorced, I would be a very strict SDA and I hate to think what that would have done to my son. God has redeemed every aspect of my life, even though right now I cannot see it. Just hold tight to your best friend, Jesus. Give C to Jesus and leave him there. He is Jesus responsibility. You continue in my prayers. And remember, God is awesome. Diana | ||
| Tracey Registered user Username: Tracey Post Number: 133 Registered: 9-2004 |
Your (Di and Colleen) words are like life to me. Thank you. I know that the encouragement that you give me on here, your words and insight, are soo led of the Holy Spirit. What a gift you have (among others) It lifts me up and gives me such strength and hope and you two are so needed and so precious in the body of Christ and so used of the Lord. Thank God for you and all of you. Melissa, your matter-of fact way that you speak to me b/c of your experiences, always kept me grounded and stopped me from taking too much stock in one little glimmer of hope in something he did. I love you for it! The man that snatches you and your child will be heaven sent and so unique like you and your child! Love ya! |
