tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561453155607426685.post3741671571357112447..comments2015-11-01T04:24:10.006-08:00Comments on Until We Meet Again: Blessed AssuranceThe Kashewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08038153248240086556noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561453155607426685.post-25845142339165598492013-07-26T15:36:38.545-07:002013-07-26T15:36:38.545-07:00I'm so sorry for your loss, Christine. My hea...I'm so sorry for your loss, Christine. My heart is heavy for you. I am still struggling with acceptance/denial in the same breath. It's as if my head needs acceptance, but my heart has to be in denial. I plan on writing for a good long while and I wish there weren't so many gaps in between my entries, but each time I write it takes a lot from me, emotionally. I do have a couple already ready to go, but waiting on the right time to post them and I have over an hour of recorded stuff on my phone that needs to be transcribed here. I pray for peace for us both...LisaThe Kashewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08038153248240086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561453155607426685.post-4111640846500535922013-07-26T09:28:39.143-07:002013-07-26T09:28:39.143-07:00I meant your Joy Cometh blog.
ChristineI meant your Joy Cometh blog. <br />ChristineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561453155607426685.post-9418535516658765152013-07-26T09:25:44.329-07:002013-07-26T09:25:44.329-07:00As we too have recently lost our son your last par...As we too have recently lost our son your last paragraph I could have written myself...word for word. I pray your writing brings you as much comfort as reading it does for me. Thank you...keep writing; I will keep reading.<br />My wish of Peace to you,<br />Christine<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561453155607426685.post-71723302072320870662013-07-03T00:29:15.097-07:002013-07-03T00:29:15.097-07:00 Thank you for reading and your support, girls! Thank you for reading and your support, girls!The Kashewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08038153248240086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561453155607426685.post-33671322758567314442013-06-15T15:39:42.163-07:002013-06-15T15:39:42.163-07:00Hello my dear Friend who is Also in Progress! I k...Hello my dear Friend who is Also in Progress! I know I've been quiet. I really have had nothing relevant or empathetic to say, because my blood runs cold at the very edge of the thought of emotionally walking in your shoes these last days. But I've been reading your blogs, and I've been feeling led to pray for you in very general terms, because even when I get to know some of the details, they're really only the details we can see and express, and obviously there's just SO much more... but God knows. And I've been feeling very drawn to keeping up with your blog, because I have walked some hard roads of my own and I want to share with you what's relevant and helpful and useful for building you back up. So this music thing is drawing me out. It's been a source of comfort and connection for me for many years. Until Nov 2011, when some really traumatic stuff happened for me. And I just couldn't bring myself to sing His praises anymore, because it felt like I was lying, and just going through the motions, the words would literally stick in my throat. That connection was lost, and there wasn't any comfort there anymore. I found myself mentally editing the words to the songs to go "I want to love, I long for your presence" instead. I eventually had to force myself to reconcile that it wasn't my job to sing His praises because I felt like it; it was my job to sing His praises because He is worthy no matter how I feel. For me, in this struggle, MONTHS went by like this. And I saw other people around me going on with their lives, and receiving healing of far more significant burdens than mine, and becoming victorious over monstrous struggles, and my only thought was "What's so wrong with me that God chooses to withhold His blessing from me?" (Which we all know is totally wrong thinking anyway). In no way am I suggesting anything to you other than you are not alone. Eventually, in His timing (which means, to me, "when I was ready"), a good friend stepped out on a limb and prayed with me, and delivered to me a message that He was calling me back to a spirit of worship and gratitude. And because I received it (I heard it go "BONG!" in my head, but these were MY circumstances, not yours!) I was released from that spirit of heaviness, and I was able to worship with a full heart again. So hang in there. It sounds so hollow, but all He has ever asked for is your everything. And if your everything today is just hanging onto the ledge with your peeling fingernails, then that's enough. I'm so glad to hear that you are starting to see His hands at work, and that you are able to recognize glimpses of His glory and His presence in your pain. Hang in there.Nickiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08390481728071395537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561453155607426685.post-38428194479565554222013-06-13T15:50:58.568-07:002013-06-13T15:50:58.568-07:00As you know our beliefs are very different, but al...As you know our beliefs are very different, but all I can say is WOOHOO, that was beautiful. I just love the insight into yourself that you have, it is one of the things that I love most about you. I love you!<br /><br />BonnieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561453155607426685.post-9585532400506644652013-06-13T05:28:51.019-07:002013-06-13T05:28:51.019-07:00Well said, Mama. I know that I too, am forever re...Well said, Mama. I know that I too, am forever reminding myself that I am a Christian In Progress...and that it is in our Brokenness, that His greatest work is done. Shannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839922464036216689noreply@blogger.com