Looking for words...

[pyrodetonator]

Once again, it's been a while since I updated. I read other people's journals and blogs regularly. I'm just not keeping up with my own. I want to. But most of the time I just don't know how to find the words

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[joyful_sound]

It's not too weird... composing blog entries in one's head. I do it constantly. Only a fraction of the thoughts I think make up the 6 or 7 entries I post a day... If people think I'm addicted now, but they'd be surprised at how addicted I could be.... Anyways, I like what you say about the us and thems. It's kind of like that for me... I'm sort of expected to be an 'Us' just because of my dad's position in the church and let me tell you, it is NO fun trying to be perfect for the sake of everyones stereotype. It's like what my mom does. people expect her to be a big pillar of GRRLPOWER in the church. Always public and always present and on hand for every church function, but she isn't! She helps backstage with the inner workings of some ministries, and that's all people can expect of her. She just doesn't fill in to the pastor's wife stereotype and there's no use trying to get her to be anything other than what she is in Christ. OK! Bedtime for me now.

[cool_mums_rock]

Joy....we love your mom! She's as much of a "nut" as you are....I mean that in a very endearing way :-) Your mom is much more of a "behind the scenes-type lady"...I'm more that way too, I totally understand...but what she does behind the scenes is awesome and would take 3 or 4 people to do!

[joyful_sound]

Yup, we're just a couple of nuts.... I'm an almond... Mom's a walnut...

[cool_mums_rock]

Composing blogs in your head...I think we all do it every once in a while...especially if our blog is going to be of any substance...mostly it's probably more like..."Oh that'd be something cool to include in my blog" rather than deep comtemplative ideas and thoughts...at least for me

[pyrodetonator]

I wish that could sum up what I've seen, Vicky. Perhaps it does to some extent as it applies to our church body these days, though I can't help but think that gossip is twisting truth on many fronts. But I inhabit other places with other people, and I see the same pattern happening. Brothers and sisters in Christ misunderstood and maligned, accused and condemned. Gracelessness abounds, and a priority is put on speaking the truth without any thought that delivery makes a huge difference in how it is received. And sometimes, it just isn't time to speak the truth...sometimes wisdom dictates waiting until the timing is right. The pure arrogance of an attitude that says "well, I see a fault and so I have to exposed it right now!" is mind-boggling. Who is without fault? What happened to being patient with each other as the Lord works out His will and His purposes in each of us? The sure reaction to an ill-timed word is defensiveness, anger, and wounding. It's a terrible thing to stand there and say "well, it's not MY fault they

[cool_mums_rock]

Yes...I know what you're saying...the "church" these days seems to have become the "Country Club of 'Christians'" whether they believe or not...and the same sins that are prevalant in the world are prevalant in the church under the pretense of 'Christianity'. Pride is a horrible thing...I agree! It does invite grief and is a cancer that eats away at the inside. How we need to stay on our faces before the Lord and keep ourselves right before Him before we ever throw stones!!

We need to approach everything in humility, being cautious lest we ourselves sin...my prayer is multifold...for the perpetrator...for the victims...for us as a body, that we come to forgiveness, repentences and are purified through this. Sin ALWAYS affects more people than just the sinner...and it always brings out the sin in others as well...the later has to happen for us to be purified...we must face our own sin and be open and honest/transparent about it....James 5:16