Random Christian thought's thread continued ...

[Shimmie]

Ok,:lachen::lachen::lachen::lachen::lachen:


:rofl::rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
:yep::yep::yep::yep::yep::yep::yep:

Yup.... :yep: I 'hear' you. :yep:

[Nice & Wavy]

:yep::yep::yep::yep::yep::yep::yep:

Yup.... :yep: I 'hear' you. :yep:

Hey sis :kiss:

Thank you....cause I couldn't stop, hysterical to say the least....:lachen:

[Nice & Wavy]

I'm so sad about Michael...

Rest in Peace, there was always something about you, that I loved. I can't help but pray that you are with Jesus. :Rose:

Me too, sis...me too!

[topsyturvy86]

Does God ever give us what we really want?

Yes, according to his will. Sometimes, what we really want might not be the best for us. God see's the bigger picture and has our best interest at heart and according to His infinite wisdom would either give us what we really want, delay giving us what we really want until we're ready, or simply not give us what we really want because it isn't the best for us.

[TrustMeLove]

I'm going to go to starbucks after I exercise to chillout with some tea and read the word. I know a chill place..I hate busy loud starbucks. It's hot outside too. At 9am it was hot. Weird.

[Shimmie]

Hey sis :kiss:

Thank you....cause I couldn't stop, hysterical to say the least....:lachen:

Hey Darlin'... :kiss: Hugs to you and Pastor Hubbie. :love3:

As for your post, Oh, I 'heard' you all the way over here, loud and clear.

Then there are some things that may you go, HUH ? ? ? :shocked:

First it's this... :perplexed then this :drunk: then this :nono: then this :sad: then it has no other place to go then this :pray:

[Shimmie]

I'm going to go to starbucks after I exercise to chillout with some tea and read the word. I know a chill place..I hate busy loud starbucks. It's hot outside too. At 9am it was hot. Weird.

I love Starbucks... :love4: I like the quiet ones as well, TML. :yep: I can just sit back and chill.

I have my MP3 so I can relax to my own music and ignore the sounds of other's conversations. The smell of coffee always relaxes me.

[Laela]

All I can say is wow..... early this morning a woman I don't know and have never met called me to "give me a piece of her mind" and to demand an apology from me for not being professional yesterday. I was still in my bathroom, from just waking up.

Not to go into too much details..but I work with homeowners. I have a very cheap owner who didn't want to pay a company to clean her house for a new tenant. I was pressed for time and had made that call on the owner's behalf to arrange a cleaning. However, when I told the owner about the arrangement, she got angry and said not to send anyone. She's a good client so I didn't get ruffled. I just quickly called back the cleaning company's owner, apologized and told her the owner said no so I won't need to use her services. She didn't demand her apology nor did she seem upset, she just said OK and I thought it was done. That was the prime opportunity for her to tell me I was "unprofessional"

This morning, early this morning, the owner of the cleaning company calls me, and lets it rip. I was taken aback because I didn't expect a call from her. I let her vent and AGAIN apologize, even though I know in this line of business contracts get canceled at the last minute, owners renige..etc. The misunderstanding was that this cleaning company owner had thought she had a job, but actually didn't. What we agreed was that she'd go over to the property and would call me to quote the cost when she gets there and in the meantime I'll let the owner know. I had called to cancel before she even made that trip. The calls between her and my client all transpired in less than 30 minutes, so she didn't get to make the trip, although I'm sure she planned for it.

During the phone call this morning, she goes on about her not hurting as a business but that this last-minute cancellation ruined her whole evening. HUH??
*** I was scratching my head**

But what got me was when she said (paraphrasing)... "I am a godly woman and you need to apologize for your unprofessionalism.." :rolleyes: I don't operate that way and anyone who steps to me needs to know what they're doing and this isn't how things are done with me"

Let me tell you, I'd already woken up with God on my mind, with a song of thanksgiving on in my head and was humming it. I always wake up in song...

I did NOT let the devil make me hang up on this woman... nor did I curse her out. But I was firm with her and apologized. I stayed on the phone, because I wasn't going to let it be that easy for her. Maybe she's used to shouting matches or talking to a dial tone to confirm what she thought of someone before she even called. In the end, she said she appreciates my being considerate and that folks usually have an attitude with her (no kidding), and that I was humble, and being humble is a good quality.

I won't be calling her company anymore, of course, because she has turned an otherwise standard business situation into a personal issue. This has never happened to me before and I've been in this business a few years.

Good try, Satan. lol

God had me covered, from the time I woke up.

I share this to say God always makes a way for us to be victorious, in every situation.

Misunderstandings are one of the ways the devil cleverly tries to get us "caught up" in acting up. I really don't know what this woman's frame of mind was or what her intention for that call really was.. But respect isn't rewarded, it's earned. Whatever respect I had for her went out the door this morning.

I shared the call with my husband and he was blown away by that. "Maybe she's going through some stuff or really needed the money" he said. Maybe.... :yep: but I'm glad God used me to let her know it's all right.. you can get your point across just fine without the guns and cannons.

God Bless you all for listening to my testimony today. I said a prayer for this woman and for me after that call, because I believe God had a lesson in this and I felt compelled to share this today. If I'd allowed her to get the best of me or make me angry, God would not have been able to do more work on her and on me. I'm still a work in progres....

God is so good.... thank you JESUS for your Wisdom.

[authenticitymanifesting]

All I can say is wow..... early this morning a woman I don't know and have never met called me to "give me a piece of her mind" and to demand an apology from me for not being professional yesterday. I was still in my bathroom, from just waking up.

Not to go into too much details..but I work with homeowners. I have a very cheap owner who didn't want to pay a company to clean her house for a new tenant. I was pressed for time and had made that call on the owner's behalf to arrange a cleaning. However, when I told the owner about the arrangement, she got angry and said not to send anyone. She's a good client so I didn't get ruffled. I just quickly called back the cleaning company's owner, apologized and told her the owner said no so I won't need to use her services. She didn't demand her apology nor did she seem upset, she just said OK and I thought it was done. That was the prime opportunity for her to tell me I was "unprofessional"

This morning, early this morning, the owner of the cleaning company calls me, and lets it rip. I was taken aback because I didn't expect a call from her. I let her vent and AGAIN apologize, even though I know in this line of business contracts get canceled at the last minute, owners renige..etc. The misunderstanding was that this cleaning company owner had thought she had a job, but actually didn't. What we agreed was that she'd go over to the property and would call me to quote the cost when she gets there and in the meantime I'll let the owner know. I had called to cancel before she even made that trip. The calls between her and my client all transpired in less than 30 minutes, so she didn't get to make the trip, although I'm sure she planned for it.

During the phone call this morning, she goes on about her not hurting as a business but that this last-minute cancellation ruined her whole evening. HUH??
*** I was scratching my head**

But what got me was when she said (paraphrasing)... "I am a godly woman and you need to apologize for your unprofessionalism.." :rolleyes: I don't operate that way and anyone who steps to me needs to know what they're doing and this isn't how things are done with me"

Let me tell you, I'd already woken up with God on my mind, with a song of thanksgiving on in my head and was humming it. I always wake up in song...

I did NOT let the devil make me hang up on this woman... nor did I curse her out. But I was firm with her and apologized. I stayed on the phone, because I wasn't going to let it be that easy for her. Maybe she's used to shouting matches or talking to a dial tone to confirm what she thought of someone before she even called. In the end, she said she appreciates my being considerate and that folks usually have an attitude with her (no kidding), and that I was humble, and being humble is a good quality.

I won't be calling her company anymore, of course, because she has turned an otherwise standard business situation into a personal issue. This has never happened to me before and I've been in this business a few years.

Good try, Satan. lol

God had me covered, from the time I woke up.

I share this to say God always makes a way for us to be victorious, in every situation.

Misunderstandings are one of the ways the devil cleverly tries to get us "caught up" in acting up. I really don't know what this woman's frame of mind was or what her intention for that call really was.. But respect isn't rewarded, it's earned. Whatever respect I had for her went out the door this morning.

I shared the call with my husband and he was blown away by that. "Maybe she's going through some stuff or really needed the money" he said. Maybe.... :yep: but I'm glad God used me to let her know it's all right.. you can get your point across just fine without the guns and cannons.

God Bless you all for listening to my testimony today. I said a prayer for this woman and for me after that call, because I believe God had a lesson in this and I felt compelled to share this today. If I'd allowed her to get the best of me or make me angry, God would not have been able to do more work on her and on me. I'm still a work in progres....

God is so good.... thank you JESUS for your Wisdom.


It's good that you didn't let her upset you, because she definitely had other issues going on. Like you said,"Nice try Satan." Have a blessed day.

[TrustMeLove]

Laela,

WOW! You are better than me because I would have told her in a calm way that she was being VERY DISRESPECTFUL. And I might have went there on the whole Christian thing too....SMH.

I would have said that I truly do apologize for the misunderstanding and she would NEVER have to worry about that happening again, because I will be using a different service from now on.

And I don't think I would have felt bad about it either. I would have felt like I was victorious, because I would have usually gone OFF!

But, I'm so happy that you feel like you got the victory in that situation and you handled it with SUCH CLASS!

[Laela]

LOL! :lachen:

I was firm enough... I didn't fall for that Christian comment, either..that was a rabbit hole.

But I hear ya.. you walk quietly with a big stick, too.

I love it! LOL

Love & Hugz
Laela



Laela,

WOW! You are better than me because I would have told her in a calm way that she was being VERY DISRESPECTFUL. And I might have went there on the whole Christian thing too....SMH.

I would have said that I truly do apologize for the misunderstanding and she would NEVER have to worry about that happening again, because I will be using a different service from now on.

And I don't think I would have felt bad about it either. I would have felt like I was victorious, because I would have usually gone OFF!

But, I'm so happy that you feel like you got the victory in that situation and you handled it with SUCH CLASS!

[Laela]

Have a blessed day, too, Authenticity! :yep:

Hugz,
Laela

It's good that you didn't let her upset you, because she definitely had other issues going on. Like you said,"Nice try Satan." Have a blessed day.

[TrustMeLove]

What draws one to participate in a forum that goes against everything they believe?

I start to physically burn up...my temperature goes up when I hear folks in the street dissing Jesus and his teachings.

Or when people speak against good policies being put in place by the Obama admin I just shake my head.

I go and I read what others believe in terms of politics, religion, life in general. I look at certain websites..redstate..dailykos etc...just not to be ignorant about what others think.

But, I've never been drawn to debate these folks who have obviously come together to share like ideologies. Even dailykos...I'm not liberal...they support a lot of things I support, but they are on another planet on some issues.

Why debate them on their website...made so that they could come together to help push forward their agenda?

What draws people to places where they believe the total opposite of what the group believes and what is it that makes them want to debate or come out against what these people believe in a forum designed by them to share their ideology?

I really would like to know. I definitely dont' go to red state to debate...nor dailykos..nor any other blog/board/forum to debate people who I disagree with or to cause a scene.

It's like if you dont' believe this why are you here? Honestly. Why are you here? I guess I'm a non confrontational person up to a certain point. I don't go looking for it...if it comes my way..I'm up to the task to handle it, but I don't willingly put myself is positions to be confrontational.

Maybe that's a flaw, but I am happy with that aspect of who I am.

ETA: Coming to LHCF to speak out against long hair and promote short hair. Going to Napp...to speak out against natural hair and promote relaxers, jerry curls etc..
Going to a Nail blog to speak out about keeping up a manicure.
Heading to a JW site (I don't even know if one exist) where they are supporting one another to say CULT CULT CULT.

Why? Seriously...Why?

[moonglowdiva]

Don't second guess the Bible, what is says is truth. All you have to do is trust in God.

[Chrissy811]

Don't second guess the Bible, what is says is truth. All you have to do is trust in God.

Thanks for posting this. I hardly ever read this thread, but I was starting to have a few doubts here and there because what I am seeing is not lining up with what I'm reading. I heard a message yesterday that was kinda pushing me back to what I know to be true and your post is another message to my spirit...all have to do is trust.

[GV-NA-GI-TLV-GE-I]

Maybe it demonstrates the absolute diversity within the christian realm. There were historical councils of the Church for a reason. They still aren't sitting on the same hill.

[Laela]

Thank you Lord for the diversity in this forum, for those who do read the Bible and stimulate discourse that get me to thinking, even if I don't agree with them. They are all your Children and I thank you for helping me to fellowship with them with Unconditional Love.

[GV-NA-GI-TLV-GE-I]

If this beautiful prayer doesn't sum up my struggles today, I don't know what will:


The Great Spirit Prayer

Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind,
Whose breath gives life to all the world.

Hear me; I need your strength and wisdom.

Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes
ever behold the red and purple sunset.

Make my hands respect the things you have
made and my ears sharp to hear your voice.

Make me wise so that I may understand
the things you have taught my people.

Help me to remain calm and strong in
the face of all that comes towards me.

Let me learn the lessons you have
hidden in every leaf and rock.

Help me seek pure thoughts and act
with the intention of helping others.

Help me find compassion
without empathy overwhelming me.

I seek strength,
not to be greater than my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy,
Myself.

Make me always ready to come to you
with clean hands and straight eyes.

So when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my spirit may come to you without shame.

― Unknown

[ILYandY]

I am learning so much about G-D the King of the universe. I learned about The Shema, The Shabbat and how to prepare meals, and daily prayers for morning, noon, and night and for each meal.

Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him

[GV-NA-GI-TLV-GE-I]

I am learning so much about G-D the King of the universe. I learned about The Shema, The Shabbat and how to prepare meals, and daily prayers for morning, noon, and night and for each meal.

Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him

Have you ever seen this orthodox version of the Shema? Beautiful!!! And the child's voice....just wow!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfF6-TkAnBM