@Moose123 Good on you! Our dear brother Paul simply says i die every day! How true for as long as we carry sinful flesh?
What is true cannot die, so true will always be back online!
@avant-garde i reckon that any loving truth He shares with us, with us seeing that His words spoken to us are not just for us, but also relevant in other peoples lives, are really powerful truths spoken.
For i know that everything we hear God say to us suffering life, He says to anyone suffering. For God in His love for us always shares the same truth Jesus displayed/brought us all.
Just my humble opinion about sharing personal words God spoke to us.
i'll share you a short poem i once penned down about sharing in His truth being tormented by the darkness pressing.
You and I,
In my suffering I meet You my Lord.
For in rejection I have life as well,
Like You i also having been sorely
despised, scorned and mocked,
and badly hated without a cause.
Either of us knows what it feels like,
to be alone, forgotten and forsaken.
Having seen misery fill all our senses,
Cruel deeds ripping inner peace apart.
So please let us always be One together
and share the wisdom we both learned.
Me alive in Your life, You Alive in mine.
sharing in oneness of purpose and truth,
our Heavenly Father's Good Life living.
Dear @avant-garde
the link to your Running thread showed such a beautiful vulnerable seeking forgiving caring interaction with you and @ENKELI
I felt really privileged to be tagged and have read it. Thank you both. We all have lots going on that we are challenged by and struggle with, but there is an underlying commitment to strive for good. The Greek word AGAPE comes to mind.
I can relate so deeply , that I am also really careful, not to get triggered by all the historical institutional abuse I have endured and I don’t want misunderstandings when we are raw and open. So I keep a quiet walking along with…style.
Yet we seem to crave recognition and being seen and appreciated, from the depths of our hearts.
The differences between online and in real life social contact is real. We make the best of what we have available. I learn and move from one to the other.
Gentle hugs both of you.
posting pictures as I often feel words are inadequate.
Situations like this help me feel the forum is doing some good.
God Bless
I have 2 visitors today, so I am grateful for the big shifts in my life, as I am not alone and isolated as I was when I first joined.
Interpersonal communication and friendships are still challenging, but it is wonderful when it is worthwhile.
@AuntGlow @DownMoreThanUp @heartathome @Moose123 and all….
@heartathome Good seeing you around.
Yes i do understand my fight for survival to be spiritual.
Depressive moods has me hearing lies in my head about everything, especially myself. Yet i know from God's Word that lies proceed from an unholy father, and witness that truth, for the creep fathered me a reality in hell. Me living my life believing lies about myself, brought me my pit, which i had mindlessly dug deeper every day tormenting myself their lies.
If it had not for The Word coming to my rescue down deep i would have perished there. For The Spirit pointed out to me that i was in the place prepared for satan and he was feasting my good life squandering it. (Revelation 20:1-6)
(Wrote a poem about waking up to that reality.)
Feasting My Good Life.
The Wicked captivated my truth
the truth of my heart and mind
and wound me around their lies
knotted me out of my own reality
into the dungeons of torture below.
Unable to unravel their cob webs
the wicked took control of my life
and brought much pain and misery
feasting on my God given good life
at the expense of my own welfare.
Yet when Christ light lit up my night
and i saw Him on the clouds of heaven
The Wicked sprung all their traps
thinking i was as good as dead
trapped in their nasty fowler's nets.
Yet the Lion of the tribe of Judea
killed the goats great and small
and set me free from their control
and gave me back my freedom in Him
feasting good times growing New Life.
@Appleblossom @ENKELI @avant-garde @Moose123
The Lord, when He at first took me in His Glory, told me i was not sick in my mind, but that i had been given the gift of discernment by Him. And that this gift had gone wrong in my life. Where already from very early on in my life, this gift harvested me the horrors ruling the moments around me. Jesus has often taken me back there, like being raised from the dead such recall is, to proof His point, as well as heal me from those moments gone wrong. And more and more my psychotic times are disappearing and my gift of discernment works without driving me insane.
i happen to know a few schizophrenic people, and i'm assured, they also have this gift of discernment, with me in common to some degree. However each one of us deal with it according to the baggage we have accumulated on our journey down here. The the lies we have internalised about God/The Truth, ourself, others around us, as well as the universe we find our life in. (what is your take on this @Moose123 also hearing evil voices? (That is if you feel safe to share of course))
Once, years ago, with my closest schizophrenic friend, i was fortunate enough to journeyed the spiritual together openly. (This friend, my age, but severely affected mentally by the confusion pestering him 24/7. He has nevertheless a heart of gold. He literally cannot harm an ant. And once had to be taken out the house he rented, so they could spray the ants nest he had fostered inside feeding the ants.)
Anyhow we came to discussing evil. Now my friend will NEVER accept that people can be evil, for he is the cause of all evil ruling down here himself seeing them. For He is convinced he is Adam and has lost his wife Eve in a previous life.
Yet he knew evil, just like me, did he ever! For he could see them all the time, just like me. However he blamed himself seeing them, and so he blamed himself for being evil refusing to heed or even acknowledge them. While i myself on the other hand had always fought the wicked bitterly from taking me over, he never did, for love ruled his heart the moments. My friend taught me a lot that day. And i have never forgotten our journey together.
