tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32744496.post1495287731760283442..comments2023-10-05T04:19:40.180+13:00Comments on Thoughts and Amusings: A Challenge to WomenLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245428263009453052noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32744496.post-11867379408177501412007-10-31T19:43:00.000+13:002007-10-31T19:43:00.000+13:00Hey Debs! Thanks so much, you are a real gem :) I ...Hey Debs! Thanks so much, you are a real gem :) I really have to come to BP some time and hang with you people...<BR/><BR/>I totally emphathise.... I very much know the drill... christian nomism (and legalism) are very unhealthy and can cause incredible amounts of stress. <BR/><BR/>I think what John was trying to emphasise with the list was a healthy work life balance, one that has both Christ and the secular world in balance, where we don't live in the christian bubble. I don't think he was saying (nor do i advocate) that we should live by the list as a mantra in order to become 'more Christian' one can never become 'more Christian'. <BR/><BR/>I'm rambling...but i hope i have communicated something clearly after a day of year 5's and year 6's! <BR/><BR/>Peace Debs : )Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12245428263009453052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32744496.post-49185956548873180602007-10-31T19:05:00.000+13:002007-10-31T19:05:00.000+13:00Hi LisaI did something a few weeks ago that has be...Hi Lisa<BR/><BR/>I did something a few weeks ago that has been very healing for me. I boxed up all the christian books i own and gave them to a friend to look after. I realised that everytime i walked past them i felt guilty, bad and not like a 'proper' christian<BR/><BR/>I read that list and remembered a time when I could say yes to nearly everything on that list - or at least heading in the right direction. <BR/><BR/>Now when I read things like that a part of me feels a longing but the other part closes off and says "no, too much". For me at the moment, all i can do is say "hi" to God....and thats it. I can praise him from time to time in song, and i think about Him a lot, but thats it. And thats ok. Thats all I have.<BR/><BR/>Im enjoying, for the 5 short years of being a christian, not feeling guilty or bad. Not feeling pressured or weighed down with the things im not doing. At one stage 5 nights of the week were filled up with some activity, life group, running Alpha, bible school, church x2, evangelism classes. You know the drill. Now for the first time I have NOTHING but God and even though it feels empty, I feel full.<BR/><BR/>I miss the Lords voice, and i think with the high amounts of stress Ive been under its no wonder.<BR/><BR/>Anyway the point was just to say hi :) and to comment that, for ME, it is freeing to no longer feel I must live up to something or be something. Im Debs and thats all I can be really.Debshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17192227600368209249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32744496.post-57271206840706514672007-10-31T16:20:00.000+13:002007-10-31T16:20:00.000+13:00I agree Stan, I am not going to get into meaningle...I agree Stan, I am not going to get into meaningless debate. As I said at the top of my post<BR/><BR/><B>, I have highlighted a few that I think are relevant to the demographic who read this blog </B>Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12245428263009453052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32744496.post-4459775219751655852007-10-31T13:08:00.000+13:002007-10-31T13:08:00.000+13:00not exactly much of a challenge if you leave out t...not exactly much of a challenge if you leave out the most challenging partsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com