I found an interesting blog while I was creating a blog for my daughter. It is called "Everlasting Blog Stopper." She would seem to have Buddhist beliefs and practices, which I don't adhere to, but her views on life had me laughing (in a good way). I think she is very funny. I also thought that some of her thoughts were right on in her post about what normal is. So I added her to my links. As I said, I appreciated the site because of her sense of humor and personality. She also had a lot of cute pictures and borders on her blog.
Monday, November 07, 2005
Blog Stopper
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Ironically, I am a Lutheran Church Secretary, which I don't adhere too. Just because I find the Poetic Justice in Buddhist Wisdoms, doesn't make me a Non Christian. Read the words sometime, it's rather.. enlightening. Christ is savior, but Buddhist is poetic.
Thank you for finding my blog. I am not entirely sure how you did, but you're welcome to visit any time.
Have a great night>
regan
No problem, I was not offended. If anything it was a wakening call. I am lost spiritually, honestly. I see so much hypocritical judgement from "Christians" that I find it hard to follow a church, or any church, that behaves ever so accordingly.
I grew up abused. By a "christian" woman. I could never figure out if God was so giving, and so loving, how could he feed another innocent soul to the hands of someone like my mother. Foster homes, beaucratical (sp?) agencies, hospitals are all too familiar for a child of 8-10yrs of age.
You wrote that you have a rather empty blog because of being a pastor's wife. (Which you can delete this comment if you need to, I'm ok with that).. But my question is, if they are so "christian" why do you feel the need to cowar to them? They are not here to judge you, only Eyes in Heaven can judge you and how you lead your life. They are here as help, guidence and support for you, but not to judge you. This is another problem I have with "Christianity."
TOO many are more into judging others, to occupy their time, so they cannot focus and judge themselves. Buddhist and Hindus tell you to judge yourself, through YOUR eyes, and not through the eyes of others.
If anything, you stumbling across my blog might be God's way of making a SUPPORTIVE friend via the internet, who does not judge. But in fact aids in leading one of his lost sheep back into a warm flock?
~Regan
I'm really new to this blog thing, so i'm not sure what the best way to reply to your comments is... I figure this way if you check back, both sides of the conversation would be together. Is that the proper way, tho?
I daily struggle with the issues of being a loving Christian both in myself and in others. The only conclusion i've come to so far is that God knows and loves you. He can't make anyone follow Him, including your mom. It is easy to blame Him for her, but really she at some point had a choice on how her life would go. She could have choosen to search, as you seem to be doing, for a loving God. But then maybe she did and never found Him. I recently went on an Emmaus walk. If you don't know what that is, it's like a three day spiritual journey. It was amazing! The weekend focuses on how much God loves YOU! And it helped me let go of some things.
My dad was a pastor and he used to tell me what God was telling him and I would have to agree or be up all night arguing with Him. Most of the time I believed he was wrong. It totally confused me and for a long time I didn't know if how God was leading me was really God or just leftover dad.
God tells us to judge ourselves too. I totally believe in doing that. There is a verse I remember that says this: Matthew 7:3-5 "'Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, `Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." I love that verse because of the imagery. Can you image someone with a plank in thier eye? It cracks me up.
Back to what I was saying, tho. I think the important thing is to have a relationship with God and treat Him like your best friend (spend time talking to Him each day) and then you'll be a true Christian (Christ-like) and others will see that and look at themselves and before you know (probably slower than you'd really like tho) others will start loving too. It sounds way out there, huh? But I know my God is big enough and that if i'm faithful in His timing there will be some changes. I am sorry that your life has been hard. And as I am sorely lacking friends (no one really realizes it, but that is typical of pastor's wives), I would ove to have another. And i'm not deleting anything. If someone sees it either they will take it in the spirit it was written or it will cause them to evaluate thier actions, but thanks for the support. I really did feel a kinship when I saw your site. Thanks for the great comments and thoughts.
lol.. I had originally meant it as a comment only for here. But I felt it was well written. Sometime I move my comment over to my blog as a blog entry. It helps me with my writing. For writing seems to be the only way I can reliquish some of my trials in life.
I do talk to whom ever is carrying my soul and heart on a daily basis. Elaine, I do not think you have to be a pastor's wife to be lonely. I feel alone quite often in my life.
Although I seem to have an abundance of friends around me, I feel hallow inside. I cannot feel any different than a whole congregation of worshippers, and yet not connecting to a single one.
It's the critical judging from others that kill me. I was raised... a little bit different. I spent my first 7-9 years ( I cannot remember the exact ages because it was really.. odd setting) growing up in a commune with hippies. Prior to the abuse suffered from my mother. I was taught to love regardless. That moral is put to test on a daily basis. We are such hateful, critical damning creatures. It is such an effort to genuinely smile at strangers, because fear/regret/ and anger really ride the shoulders of everyone we pass. 40-50 years ago, people who lives miles apart on seperating farms, yet knew everything about each other. People grew up knowing their neighbors. Today, we live stacked upon each other, and we cannot even look at each other (let alone say hi) to our neighbor out the mailboxes.
Where have we gone wrong? Really..
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if you have messenger, or would like to carry this on in a more.. private venue.
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