Lessons of Life

[frogpeach09]

So, I kinda want to return to my Milligan bubble where life seemed to make sense, where everyone was pretty cool, and where every other word out of someone's mouth wasn't @#$%. I don't know exactly when the secular world got so intimidating or when I began to feel so alienated. I'm really starting to see something to the phrase "live in the world

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[chrisdrouin]

You'll be ok, I promise. I kinda know what you feel like, but I am not that far away at the moment; I was far from everyone when I was working at Disney and everyone seemed to have a potty mouth. I have worked in the food service, but not an actual restaurant, so I don't really know anything about that. Fortunately girls don't really have wandering hands, so I don't have to worry about that... Anyway, if you have to come back here, there is always somewhere to stay; my door is open to you, but you would feel way better with Hailey.

[frogpeach09]

Aw! Chris, you are so sweet. =-) Thanks, but I'm here for the long-hall. Come hell or high water I'm going to try to stay here until the bloody end. =-P Or at least until Alpha dumps my lifeless body in a river heading to Tennessee. LOL.

But yeah. Sounds weird, but I feel so innocent out here, you know? Innocent, young, vulnerable... It's not a pleasant feeling. But it seems like wherever I go I feel like an outcast. lol.

[haileyw87]

I read this yesterday. But as I was walking back to my car today I realized that to "live in the world but be not of it" is definitely a challenge. It isn't one I ever had to really think about until I left Milligan. I mean, I grew up in a "world" where to live in it was to live of it and still be in the right place, you know? But ETSU (not even really Fatz did this) has shaken my "worldview" so much that I realized this verse is something that I am doing/ trying to do and don't really notice. I know that you, Lindsey, Kristen, and Chris and I are all the same here. We don't really fit in with the rest of the people our age. This post and verse just really hit home for me this morning. Just thought I would share

[frogpeach09]

Glad to know I'm not the only one dealing with this. I get along with nice, polite, secular people fine. It's the mean ones that cuss and slander others that I don't know how to act around.

Morality becomes an issue daily that I'm face to face with. Theft, passive aggressive tendencies, cursing, using the Lord's name in vain, ect happen all the time.

And as for myself, I can't go to church most Sundays... and I really feel like I need some other Christians in my life. I can't have my own morality suffer just because of the world I'm in now.

But it does a little here and there. A thought here, a temptation there, barely stopping myself from sinning. *Sigh*

But no one said being a Christian would ever be easy.

[haileyw87]

I understand. I hate cussing and I wish that people just wouldn't. I didn't think it was possible to hear more than I heard at Fatz...but ETSU has proved me wrong. Finding a church and small group that I really enjoy has helped a lot. I at least feel like I have something there to get me through the week.

Yeah, it was never said this would be easy - that is so the truth.

Love you Jenn!