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To: Tax-chick
Does detachment cause despair? Or does despair cause detachment? I don't know. I think it is our human condition to try and solve everything ourselves.

Even after crashing into the same wall over and over again and we finally decide to call Jesus in, then we stomp our little foots and want the answer now!

When I was single the answer was clear. Retreat, even if it was just turning everything off and spending the weekend at home with Jesus. Now being married, having animals and for you all kids, grand kids, we all have jobs and or projects. It seems harder to just get with God. Where I can really hear him. Used to not be so hard. So is it me or him? 99.9% sure it's me!

I long for the days that I heard him more clearly, when I think back things were easier then. Was it because I had less complications or because I let him carry the ball?

9 posted on 09/12/2014 5:57:20 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: defconw
DETACHMENT is what the eastern religions aim for.
To me, that is NOT the Christian or Western way. Jesus taught us to be our brother's keeper. That is the antithesis of detachment.
10 posted on 09/12/2014 6:57:50 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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