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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/18/2005 2:00:04 PM
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Ben, you're goofy.
No I'm not! I'm playing at being Bugs... 
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/18/2005 2:00:55 PM
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/18/2005 2:04:42 PM
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Hey Maggie! :)
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/18/2005 4:10:09 PM
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Hi Maggie
I just read about your furniture and I am glad that you feel you can make it work to your liking.
I didn't know you had a website. Are you still setting it up?
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/18/2005 4:22:54 PM
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Hi Lynnie! Yeah, I have a website, www.magdaleine.com. It's not to my liking yet but I'm thinking that a website is like that. There's always something to improve.
Hi Christine!
Hi Bugs!
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/18/2005 4:24:55 PM
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stamper_ben
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Hi Bugs!
Musta been talkin to me!
Hi Maggie!
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/18/2005 4:27:26 PM
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karlie
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Ben, your avatar isn't showing now. I wonder if it's just my computer.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/18/2005 5:13:41 PM
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Yep! All the time, Lynnie! You'll get used to it. And you're NOT an old dog. {{{{Lynnie}}}}
The site has been up since November but I haven't talked a lot about it because I wanted it to look good and have something half worth seeing/reading first. Thanks for wanting to look at it! And you're right. You can't forget the name, LOL!
Hi Ben!
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/18/2005 5:18:54 PM
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Maggs, I read your short story and signed your guestbook. You really are a gifted writer :)
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/18/2005 5:23:06 PM
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Thank you, Karlie! As a matter of fact, I happened to check the guestbook and sent a pm thanking you before I saw your post here in my thread. But thanks for giving me a heads up. I am forever forgetting to look there because it gets written in so seldom. Thanks a lot!
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/18/2005 5:26:48 PM
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I looked at it as well, you really are very talented!
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/18/2005 7:49:11 PM
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Thanks, Christine!
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/19/2005 12:25:02 AM
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(((((((((((((((((Maggie))))))))))))))))))) Praying for you, dear. And I CAN'T WAIT to check out your website!!! I'll try tomorrow.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/19/2005 1:08:10 AM
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Thanks, Diane! I look forward to your visit to my website.
I've spent the last many, many hours putting together a package to return with Flat Ashley. I need to start a thread but I haven't had time. It's been kind of fun to do this.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/20/2005 12:30:14 PM
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Sharon I am sooooo glad you can finally see my avatar. Yea
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/20/2005 12:56:49 PM
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Hi Maggie! Thinking about you!
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/20/2005 1:56:26 PM
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Maggie,
How's work today?
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/20/2005 1:56:40 PM
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Hi Maggie! I figured I'd better drop in and let you know that I'm still alive and kicking, 'cause it's been a while since my last posting.
I ws off from work on Monday - Mom had an eye doctor appointment - and when I arrived yesterday morning, I found out that Darnell hadn't worked either. She walked in a few minutes later and said that she'd just gotten back in town from Columbus. Tee had taken a turn for the worse late Friday, so they had to go back in and operate again. She's not as hopeful as she was earlier last week when I told you about him being relased to Charleston so that he could do his rehab in his hometown. In fact, Darnell doesn't think he's going to live, but I'm not going to accept that prediction. I'm praying that God will heal him supernaturally, so that he doesn't even need any rehab at all.
I've got to go now. I just got back to the office and my paperwork awaits. See ya!
Duane
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/21/2005 9:13:31 AM
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Hi Maggie! I have to get ready to go to shcool but I wanted to stop by and say hello to you and let you know I am thinking about you! Have a wonderful blessed day![img]http://www.anchoredbygrace.com/smileys/OLA.gif[/img]
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/23/2005 8:10:33 PM
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Hi everyone! Sorry for my absence. Sometimes I get anti-social and simply need to hide. Sometimes I forget I need to write in my thread. This week I've been feeling very disconnected from CW and everyone here.
Sharon, the couch isn't THAT long. It seats three people (could probably seat four but it has only 3 cushions). As for the "lost friend", I'm still getting up the courage to respond properly to her e-mail. I hope to do that tonight.
Hi Pamela! Cool to see you here!
Hi Lynnie! Cute little dog!
Oh my! Steph, you're asking about work and that was last Wednesday. Sigh. It was a LOT of work. I earned my paycheque that day but I was asked for especially so that was cool. What WASN'T cool was the coffee "station" in the main office (as opposed to the staff room) had only two spoons for stirring and both of them were so dirty it made my skin crawl. Imagine my horror when, in doing me a favour because I was too busy, the other secretary poured water into my cup for tea and then added one of those spoons to my mug. ACK! I didn't drink the tea. Instead, at my first coffee break, I took my full cup with me, as though going to the staff room and instead went outside, poured it on the ground and went quickly to find a coffee shop to get me some new tea. Whew!
Duane! Good to see you! And nice to see your blog is up and running again too. Wooo hoooo! I am SO sorry about Tee not doing well and for Darnell's loss of hope for his life. God can do miraculous things. My cousin is still living and living an active life more than 25 years later, even though the paramedics, on bringing him to the hospital, told the Emergency staff, "Oh, don't worry about THAT one, he's gone." Tee's not gone till he's in the grave. We'll just keep praying. {{{{Duane}}}}
Thanks for thinking of me, Dee Dee! Very cute "wave". I like your siggie too.
More in the next post.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/23/2005 9:01:12 PM
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Going for Training
Today was the training day for Cross-Current, a program out of Living Waters, administered by the Exodus office here in Winnipeg. It's an 8-week course, on a drop-in basis, for those who are sexually and/or relationally broken, to help raise awareness of issues in their lives. Living Waters is the more in-depth program to actually begin working on healing. I had been invited to join the team first by the director for Exodus and then later by the co-ordinator of the program who didn't know her husband had already invited me. So that was kind of cool. But they gave me conflicting invitations, in a sense, so I wasn't sure what role I will be playing on the team.
It looks like I'll be part of the on-site prayer team--something I'm very glad to do. I had hoped I'd have a more active role but, after reading the "Requirements for CrossCurrent Leadership", I realize that I still have some growing and healing to do before I could sign the form that says I meet those requirements. Sigh. However, something else came out of the meeting this morning.
New Direction has its own offices and meeting facilities. For some reason, however, they have decided to connect with a downtown church. I can see some logic in this. Since the church is large by Winnipeg standards, since it is downtown and since 40% of the people who attend this church aren't Christian (it's a seeker church, I think), plugging into the church's structure of Tuesday night recovery programs works nicely in terms of more available space and the possibility of more people coming because more people have heard about it.
This church, however, happens to be the one that dh has chosen, of all the ones he's been attending, to be his home church--at least for now. I was aware of the possibility of "bumping" into him at the Tuesday night classes but I hadn't told him how I'd been asked to be involved with CrossCurrent. I didn't really expect to see him this morning. The meeting was for facilitators of the various recovery programs and he isn't one. But he SURELY didn't expect to see me there. When he walked through the door the shock on his face was very evident. I wasn't so happy to see him. I felt intruded upon. Already I felt unsure and shaky because, though I recognized a few of the CrossCurrent team, only three really know me and I've had virtually no contact with any of them for the past two years. And I didn't know any of the people from the other programs. Dh's presence made me more uneasy, not less.
The Counselling Pastor who led the joint part of the meeting had some wonderful teaching. One of the things he had us do was take 15 seconds to turn to our neighbour and look into their eyes. "What did you see? What was the other person saying?" I saw a man (dh) who, after 31 years of marriage, STILL feels embarassed and uncomfortable about looking in my eyes. He could not keep his eyes on mine but shifted them twice. It hurt. It's the same at home.
What hurt more was the contrast between all the things the pastor was saying that we as facilitators must be good at doing and me knowing that dh either can't or won't do any of them with me. The pastor said that we need to speak the "Language of the Heart" to those we're working with and this includes the ability to "read" and understand interpersonal "road signs' and respond effectively. Four such signs are:
1. Please listen to me, I need to be understood (and gave three tips for active listening: give full attention, keep your mind focused, hear their story);
2. Please accept me, I'm under construction, be cautious with me (let the speaker finish without interupting, let yourself finish listening and allow silence after the person has spoke to give time to generate your own thoughts, understand their story);
3. Please connect with me, I need relationship, merge with me (ask relevant questions, seek to clarify, give thoughtful feedback, seeking to be honest and loving, share your story);
4. Please Inspire me, I need hope (speak from the soul, speak about hope, speak with passion).
Dh does all the things with me that the pastor said NOT to do, especially with the first point, listening. It hurt so much to sit there beside him, hear these instructions and be reminded of how little my dh seems to care. And if he WAS there to learn how to be a facilitator, how in the WORLD could he do these things with strangers if he can't even do them with his wife. It was all I could do to keep back the tears.
You'll have to wait for the rest. I've been interupted.
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I really don't think that is going to happen. After 48 years? That is like trying to train an old dog. 
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