Actually, YOU are the one whom prompted me to apologize for my meanness.
I see the way you post to those whom disagree, and even mock, but yet you come across with such loving and forgiveness.
You do stay right with your beliefs, but you are very kind in doing so.
So thanks for that. =)
Okay, this is just so unexpected...sorry FRiends, but I have to HOWL laughing!!!!
QUIX, of all people, inspiring someone to apologize to ME of all people!
Honestly, I wish we were all in the same room. I’d get out an adult beverage for anyone who wanted one, and make a toast to the unlikeliest event, one I could NEVER have imagined!
ROFL!!!!
Forgive me, it’s just so....so...amazing!
BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD!
PRAISE GOD FOR HIS FAITHFULNESS.
I’m sure Judith Anne or Petronski or some such might have a dissenting perspective. LOL.
It touches me deeply that you see that.
Many folks take fierce disagreement and outrage at some heresies and blasphemies as personal hatred. Thankfully, they are exceedingly wrong. It blesses me tons that you and many others see the reality that’s quite different from that perspective.
Besides, I want to be forgiven instantly 24/7. Scripture teaches me I must practice and sow such forgiveness if I want such.
Mercifully, God has, through many long painful dark nights of the soul, also taught me to love even those who would seek my pain and even my death.
And, isn’t being a Christian about Loving God and being conformed by Him to the image of His Son? Nothing else is worth anything, really.
If a lot of the folks who are so hostile towards me could see my heart toward them, it would jangle them quite a bit. Sadly, they can’t see past their reactions to my word antics against various beliefs and practices.
Thankfully, God can.
And, evidently, you.
What a gift. And it’s past Christmas! Praise God.
THANKS TONS.
Interestingly,
I started, at the time, to chide you a bit . . . that it was unnecessary and beneath you. I just felt in my spirit to let it be, that God would let you know. Interesting.
Besides, I was certain that some would guffaw to the point of dangerously choking on their own spit if I did so publically. IIRC, I was going to do so privately but felt to not even do that, oddly.
I think God fashions HIS arrows uniquely each for its own purpose. I think you do extremely well what you normally do. PRAISE GOD FOR THAT.
Understanding hearts is such a tricky GOD-ONLY-FOSTERED thing. It’s fairly common for vivid things to obscure, hide, disguise MORE subtle things. PRAISE GOD FOR HIS FAITHFULNESS.
I think I live all my heart brazenly on my sleeve in front of God and everyone. Yet, I know that probably most folks have trouble having a clue about my heart and a lot else about me. LOL.
Humans are such complex critters.
Yet they are a real kick to love, regardless . . . sometimes regardless of THEIR infuriating insufferable-ness! LOL.
RELIGION is probably THE area of life where it’s easiest to miss the forest for the trees in one another.
It’s very human to try and throw the baby out with the bath—and that in harsh, all encompassing black/white ways.
Yet, there’s no greater kick than Loving God and loving others—regardless. PRAISE GOD.
I don’t know that I do anything very perfectly, except be imperfect.
I certainly don’t love God or anyone else perfectly. I do try, by His Grace, to keep at it. And, I try to keep my heart toward others as clear of negative stuff from hell, by God’s Grace, as I know how to do.
I make no bones about fierce hostility toward things which I understand God to hate. However, the people involved are persons made in God’s image. Besides, in many cases, I’ve been in similar boats on many similar things. I remember what it’s like.
And it was the fiercest folks with the most hostility toward some of those boats—and sometimes even against me personally—who helped me out of them, the most. I realize God can use anything. Nevertheless, that’s always stuck with me. Many times when I was wailing and whining to God about such treatment, He had the audacity to say that they were right in the outrageously insufferable thing they’d just said to me. LOL.
God can be quite nonplus-ed in HIS audacity! LOL.
Anyway—FR is a kick. And the Religion Forum is the greatest kick on FR.
Now if we could just tweak a little more light out of some of the heat! LOL.