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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/25/2005 11:13:28 AM
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monaly77
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Helloooooooooooooooooooo Maggie!
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/25/2005 2:08:09 PM
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Maggie,
I so excited to hear of what happened over the weekend with you and dh. God is so good! It will be by HIM that you and your husband will come to a oneness... it will happen.. it's just a manner of time. I firmly believe that!
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/25/2005 2:53:20 PM
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Maggie,
Remember what I told you about a year ago? That a breakthrough with your dh was coming? I think we're beginning to see it! Now, granted, this is very small, but don't the Scriptures say something about not despising the day of small beginnings? Don't lose heart, my dear friend, and keep holding to the promises you have been given concerning your marriage. They will happen.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/25/2005 2:56:32 PM
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Pamela, I'm keeping a blog at www.magdaleine.com/musings but I share here much of what I share there. The only difference is that this thread is more casual and the blog is more formal. Thanks for the hug.
And here we can respond to her!
You've made for some uplifting reading this morning Maggie. Thanks.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/25/2005 3:36:20 PM
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magdaleine
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Actually, Ben, you can respond at the blog too. Unlike CW blogs, most blogs have a place for comments. But THIS is where I find my friends and I love interacting with all of you here. Thanks for saying what I wrote was uplifting. I hope it encourages others who are feeling discouraged.
Yes, Duane. I remember. I've been trying to find where I kept what I wrote about God's promise to me about my marriage but I can't. I have to spend some concentrated time searching. The only two words I think I could use reliably for a search are "promise" and "marriage". Both call up tons of documents in my journal. I will have to look at each one until I find the right one. You're right. This is a beginning. And thank you so much for your encouragement.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/25/2005 3:38:07 PM
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(((((((((((((((((((((((((Maggie))))))))))))))))))))))
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/25/2005 3:55:22 PM
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magdaleine
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Thanks, Diane!
Hi Mo!
Steph, you're right. It will happen. God has promised me that it will. I just get so tired of waiting. Maybe the wait is beginning to be over.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/25/2005 8:25:09 PM
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Maybe... but don't get discouraged if things don't always seem like there's progress.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/26/2005 9:45:28 AM
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ORIGINAL: magdaleine
Pamela, I'm so glad you had an awesome time in church. A second wind is awfully nice too.
I talk about yesterday in posts 124 and 129.
I'm sorry this is late but...wow!! ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((MAGGIE AND DH))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/26/2005 1:31:42 PM
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magdaleine
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Thanks for the encouragement, Steph!
Diane, thanks for the hug.
I have a prayer request.
I think I mentioned that I would consider offering my home as a place for our church to meet. I've been thinking a lot about that. I really don't WANT to make that offer because I think of what it will mean. Up till now, church has been a refuge from dh in many ways. He's not there and I can be completely myself. If it was in our home, he might want to participate and I'm not comfortable with that. I don't WANT him to be part of my church. I want the safety of his absence. I'm not even sure how I feel about my kids being involved, though I HAVE invited them and ds4 did attend a few times. But God's not been letting me off the hook. It seems like I have to 1) discuss this idea with dh (who will probably say yes) and the boys (who will likely say no) and 2) make the offer to my pastors. I'm scared. Will you please pray that I will be obedient in this and that God will honour my obedience by making just the right things (not necessarily what I want) to happen? Thanks.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/26/2005 1:34:45 PM
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"I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. "
Maybe this "dying" to what you'd like and what you actually do will produce fruit in your husband :D
I'll be praying for you... that would indeed be a challenge and be vulnerable for you.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/26/2005 3:52:34 PM
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I'm praying, too, Maggie.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/26/2005 5:08:14 PM
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monaly77
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Hellooooooooooooooooo Maggie!
Praying too!
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/26/2005 6:40:17 PM
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Maggie I can only pray that all goes according to His will. I can see that you are torn in your thoughts. This may be where the Lord wants to bring your family together. If it is embrace it, feel and go with all it has to over.
I feel sure you have no problem following His lead! I've seen you do this many times. Only you will know if you should offer your house for church worship. I pray that you will recognize His will!
"The Lord measures our strength and then puts us where we'll need just a little more. What may be hard for us will never be hard for Him."
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/26/2005 7:14:34 PM
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imallforgod
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Mags,
I just had a thought... imagine what the manifest presence of the Lord can in the home where corporate worship takes place.... I would think there is something different in the spirit in those places of worship and corporate gatherings.... Not to nullify individual worship, mind you.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/26/2005 7:49:24 PM
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Maggie I am praying for you . I understand using the sfety of the church as a refuge from your dh. However I think God would like you and your DH to be able to worship together I believe your whole family should worship together. That is my opinion and I am sure I am not informed of all the issues involved as I should be to make such a statement. But I think it would be such a wonderful thing for me to be able to have my husband along with my kids to worship together and fellowship with the same people at the same, even though I often wonder if I would feel free to be my self the way I am with my friends. but then again I think that too would come in time. How sad it is when we can't be ourself with our own husbands.
So this is a dream for my self and I hope maybe for you too?
What ever God's will Maggie, I will pray for that!
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/27/2005 11:32:10 PM
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magdaleine
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Thank you for your prayers, my friends. I have asked dh about having church here. He's going to think about it. I think I made it clear that just because he agrees doesn't mean I'll offer and even if I offer, doesn't mean it will be accepted.
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Maybe this "dying" to what you'd like and what you actually do will produce fruit in your husband. quote:
This may be where the Lord wants to bring your family together. If it is embrace it, feel and go with all it has to over.
Maybe. I've thought of that.
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I feel sure you have no problem following His lead! I've seen you do this many times.
Thanks, Lynnie!
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...imagine what the manifest presence of the Lord can in the home where corporate worship takes place...
Yeah. I've thought of that too. ;)
Dee Dee, I think that under ideal circumstances it is best for husband and wife to be at the same church. I never could understand why a very few couples I knew attended different churches. Now I do. I believe the time will come (perhaps this is it, but I'm doubtful) when we DO worship together and belong to the same congregation but I also must be faithful to what I hear God telling me. If the church DOES fold, I will be giving this (where to go) a great deal of prayer and thought.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/27/2005 11:38:38 PM
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magdaleine
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Dear God, help me to be willing to go without my needs being met, rather than dishonouring your name with my words or deeds.
"Anyone would have gotten flustered trying to find a PIN and then losing the chance at work because someone else was getting in the way," my friend protested.
True. That is the natural and automatic response but I (and all other Christians, I believe) am being called to something supernatural. I'm being called to live not according to what's natural (the "flesh"), but to something higher. It is the natural that I'm trying to kill. I want to rise above the natural, the automatic, the thing that "anyone" would do.
What is suffering? Most people think of it in big terms. Martyrs suffer. People tortured for their faith suffer and we say to ourselves (or at least I have), "If I was in that situation, I too would be willing to suffer." But if I dishonour God by snapping at my husband because I feel crowded, if I can't handle and accept even the inconvenience or suffering of that, how in the world could I accept bigger suffering? I couldn't. I'd cave. My own comfort would come first.
I suppose, loosely defined (this is something I will probably be processing for a very long time), I suffer whenever I don't get what I want. I don't like suffering and so I do whatever I can to avoid it and when I CAN'T avoid it, I react in anger. Even the avoiding can be sinful.
For example, I don't want my church to fold. I'm hurting because of that possibility and so I want comfort. One means I use to comfort myself is with eating. Am I willing to suffer and do without what I want and choose to honour God instead? In this case, suffering might be remaining comfortless because to eat in the ways that would comfort me would break a vow I have made. Suffering would also include feeling very hungry because I'm doing without that food (even though, physiologically, my hunger might be sated from proper eating).
I suffer when my husband does something that really annoys me and, instead of telling him, even nicely, I choose to keep quiet and take the matter to God. Not that telling him is wrong at all times. Communication is important. But God has been telling me to keep quiet about some of these things so, despite my natural disposition to correct or inform him, I say nothing.
I'm reminded of one translation of 1 Corinthians 13. Love suffers long. I haven't. I am now learning how. And each day in my prayer room, I hold a crown of thorns I have and ask God to help me embrace suffering, to make me willing to share in the fellowship of HIS suffering. If I am faithful in small sufferings, I will be faithful in large ones.
Charles Stanley writes, "Amid your trouble, do you wait on the Lord, or do you quickly act to alleviate the pressure?" This is something God has been teaching me over the past few years. My counsellor used to tell me I needed to groan. Sit in the pain. Suffer, rather than trying to alleviate the discomfort.
"[Waiting] is not standing idly by; rather, it is a pro-active choice to wait in expectation...." I did a bit of a study the other day on Matthew 5:5, "Blessed are the meek for they will inherit the earth." I've never quite understood the term meek. Here's what I found:
"Meekness is therefore an active and deliberate acceptance of undesirable circumstances that are wisely seen by the individual as only part of a larger picture. ... The patient and hopeful endurance of undesirable circumstances identifies the person as externally vulnerable and weak but inwardly resilient and strong. Meekness does not identify the weak but more precisely the strong who have been placed in a position of weakness where they persevere without giving up." [Baker's Evangelical Dictionary]
"The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to his word and to his rod, who follow his directions, and comply with his designs, and are gentle towards all men (Tit. 3:2); who can bear provocation without being inflamed by it; are either silent, or return a soft answer; and who can show their displeasure when there is occasion for it, without being transported into any indecencies; who can be cool when others are hot; and in their patience keep possession of their own souls, when they can scarcely keep possession of any thing else. They are the meek, who are rarely and hardly provoked, but quickly and easily pacified; and who would rather forgive twenty injuries than revenge one, having the rule of their own spirits." [Matthew Henry Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible]
I want to be meek.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/28/2005 12:08:09 AM
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who can bear provocation without being inflamed by it; are either silent, or return a soft answer; and who can show their displeasure when there is occasion for it, without being transported into any indecencies; who can be cool when others are hot; and in their patience keep possession of their own souls, when they can scarcely keep possession of any thing else. They are the meek, who are rarely and hardly provoked, but quickly and easily pacified; and who would rather forgive twenty injuries than revenge one, having the rule of their own spirits."
I want to be meek too. The lines I boxed out in quote really stood out for me.
Praying about the church in your home decision Maggie.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/28/2005 12:56:17 AM
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Wow, Maggie! God never ceases to amaze me by using you to speak what He wants me to hear. Thank you for being His vessel.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/28/2005 9:30:47 AM
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A very thought-provoking post, Maggie . . . seems to me I need to ponder on that for awhile, myself . . thanks.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/29/2005 3:44:22 PM
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Have a wonderful weekend!!!
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/29/2005 5:09:58 PM
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Thank you for your comments, Sharon, Diane and Leah. Thanks for the hug, Diane. I hope you have a good weekend too. Thanks for praying, Sharon.
I'm in a foul mood. I think it's a combination of a bunch of things. For one, I had a mole removed about an hour ago. I wound up sobbing just because of the needle for freezing. Well, it was probably more than that, but that triggered it. I've had a lot of stuff swirling around in my mind and emotions. I've been feeling so inadequate. Sometimes I want to hide from everyone and everything. Sometimes I hate myself so much I want to hide from me. But I can't. And then dh said yes to having church at our home if I want but he said other things around it that really irked me and he did all this on the phone instead of waiting till he got home so I'm mad at him. I don't want to be mad at him but I am. I think I'm full of anger right now and I'm not even sure why. I don't want to express my anger and so instead I sit here and sob at life and all its frustrations. I think I'll find a rock to crawl under for a while.
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RE: Maggie's Musings VI - 4/29/2005 6:17:56 PM
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