Bachmann to Endorse Romney

National Review Online has confirmed that Michele Bachmann will endorse Mitt Romney tomorrow at a campaign event in Virginia.

1. Love God

2. Believe God

3. Trust God

I’m not trying to be ornery, obtuse or obnoxious.

I just know that many times I’ve screamed HOW, LORD?

I certainly know others who feel that way.

HOW does one ‘force’ one’s self to Love or Love more;

Believe, or believe more?

Trust or trust more?

PARTICULARLY when one’s whole being has been TRAINED, CONDITIONED, HAMMERED intensely for 18+ years to think, feel, do the opposite?

You had a loving mother who modeled such very powerfully and effectively. Perhaps you’ve never had a shred of ATTACHMENT DISORDER. Perhaps you’ve never had a shred of existential angst, doubts, fears, etc.

I know many, including myself, who cannot recall such a wonderful childhood or life in such terms.

I don’t have any significant problem trusting God’s word AS GOD’S WORD. Certainly intellectually I can affirm that God and His Word are TRUSTWORTHY.

HOW does one get the intellectual assent to the Scripture down fully in their heart/ whole being/ spirit/ bone marrow etc? That can be a desperately felt yearning for many of us at many points in our lives.

Attachment Disorder has literally resulted in our brains being permanently damaged in such areas as emotional trusting; relationship trusting etc. That’s not an easy thing to overcome. One doesn’t just snap one’s fingers and jump over that line.

So what CAN one functionally, actively do toward fulfilling your exhortation?

the decade long slog comes from not grass-roots politicking NOW but from plowing the ground and forming the battlefield NOW with the next generation

Yes, I agree totally. By not endorsing the RINOs the ground is plowed: the people understand that true conservatism has not been tried in America since perhaps the first Reagan's term.

You can't move the masses unless you are first understood by the masses. For example, if Bachmann endorses Romney Bachmann becomes that image that the media created of her: an off-kilter woman with plenty of air between the ears and a political ambition that has replaced principles.

if Bachmann endorses Romney Bachmann becomes that image that the media created of her: an off-kilter woman with plenty of air between the ears and a political ambition that has replaced principles.

With all due respect to her personally, politically and on principle, she has not become what the media portrayed....she has proven that they were correct about her all along.

Further, I think she and Santorum have done major damage to a sizable portion of their supporters with their bait-and-switch...ok....let's call a spade a spade: they lied to their supporters.

Newt did too, but his followers were already realpolitik enough to overcome it.

Those janus-faced also-rans have done much to keep conservatives out of politics and on the sidelines not just in the potus race as you advocate, but down-ticket too. They got crushed and they're going to stay home and lick their wounds, childish as it may be.

MEANWHILE, this morning millions of little kids are going to public skrools eating an extra free-meal morning noon and afterschool, dumping all of their personal crayons into the communal crayon bucket and "sharing" their personal property to be "fair."

In 20 years we'll be where France is and those kids will be fainting for the latest leftist liar. What's the plan to fix the kids?

Thank you so much for your encouragements and for your inquiry, though truly I am not credentialed to answer questions about psychological problems.

All I can contribute is in reference to this:

HOW does one ‘force’ one’s self to Love or Love more;

Forcing will not work much like covering one's ears, closing one's eyes, humming, jumping up and down thinking "I believe" will not work.

The best a person can do, IMHO, is to be aware of when he is being self-absorbed and consciously stop thinking about himself and instead think about Who God IS.

THAT’S CERTAINLY an EXCELLENT exhortation.

THX.

LUB DEAR SISTER IN CHRIST.

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