And I apologize for identifying you as the originator of the dreams. I was rattling off a reply from my desk at work and misspoke (or mistyped, as the case may be).
And you're welcome for the kind words. I appreciate your hard work and willingness to take the heat to discuss these subjects on FR. While I often don't get a chance to reply to all of your threads, I do read them all.
Am greatly humbled and blessed by your thoughtful and kind words.
May GOD ALMIGHTY REWARD YOUR ABUNDANTLY
as I am unlikely to ever be able to even try, this side of eternity, short of His miraculous interventions!
Yeah, the flack is rarely much fun. And, it virtually always comes most and worst from 'the bretheren' --at least so named.
Thankfully, our LORD AND SAVIOR
took FAR MORE,
for me.
It's the least I can do as a microgram token of thanks.
May all your relationships manifest the fullness of His provision of Love, intimacy, substance, freedom, safety and walking intimately in His Spirit, hand in hand with Him.
BTW, I used to whine at The Lord about being made such a 'bird of rare plumage.' A particular friend in Taiwan from Ohio--a good spiritual woman--was the sort of cautious, wise, winsome, friendly, warm, relatively quiet; virtually always pleasant and agreeable person that everyone liked and virtually no one faulted in any way.
One time in my yet again whine sessions when I was bemoaning why I could not have been made more like my dear Sister L.A. mentioned above,
THE FATHER
made abundantly and painfully clear that HE HAD MADE ME as HE HAD for HIS PURPOSES according to
HIS WILL
AND
HIS PLEASURE.
And, that I'd best learn to take pleasure in His pleasure in using me AS I WAS and AS HE SANDED AND POLISHED ME ALONG THE WAY;
to otherwise shut up and get on down the road.
So, what you see, is what you get. I could easily argue in agreement with you.
But I've learned, that the foolishness of God is wiser than man's greatest wisdom. And that sometimes, what I think of as even my warts or crazy obnoxious, useless pricklies
are just the things God uses in His way, in His timing according to His purposes and for His Glory.
And, periodically, He confirms it yet again. So, I'm slowly learning to rest and be at peact about such. I still try to be amenable to wisdom and exhortation. But I don't try any longer to go to such extreme lengths as I used to--to be all things to all people--and certainly not to expend such extreme efforts to please everyone.
WUCIWUG [What U C Is What U Get].
LOL.