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Eucalyptus Oil. All natural repellant. Place drops around house. Repels most everything including ants, spiders, roaches, mice, etc etc. Also makes you healthier breathing in the vapors and help you not get colds or flu. Safe for kids and dogs but if you have cats put the drops where cat cant step in it or get to it....toxic to cats for some reason. Just get a small bottle and put a few drops under sinks, in drawers, closets, behind fridge and toilet. Smell will be strong atfirst but will diedown tohumans in a few hours. Pests can smell it for up to three months then replace the drops. Can put the drops on cotton balls or paper towels and toss those in the places rodents and bugs get in. TC

Huntr: You are young. You are 16. Might I suggest you find a local Youth group to attend? You can call around your area see what Christian churches have Youth Group meetings. Make sure it is a Bible Believing Church. A few that come to mind are a Baptist, Methodist, Church of God, Assembly of God, New Life Church, and I'm sure there are others. These types of Churches usually have Youth Groups for Teenagers to get together to learn about Christ and be with others their age (peers) who can learn together, suppport each other, and Fellowship with one another in a safe setting usually led by Mature Christian Adults. Youth leaders there will also gladly help you with recommitting your life to Christ. Since you have said you want to recommit, I am assuming you have been to church before. The best way to grow in Christ is to fellowship with other believers, in person, not just online. Online is great as a supplemental tool but with your ability to get out of your house, going in person would be more beneficial and healthier and then use the Chat and forums as a supplement. It is imperative that we fellowship physically, eye to eye, with other believers. As for feeling close to God, a relationship with God isn't really about feelings. It is about Faith. It is about having His joy within us and the faith that He is always there even when we don't "feel" Him there. A Youth Group can help you understand this better, too. If you need help finding a church near you, I'm sure you could give someone here you feel comfortable with the city and state you are in and they would be willing to help you find one that has a Youth Group for you to attend. TC

Jesus tells us to come to Him as a little child. We don't need to make our study time complex and difficult. It should be a simple child-like way of seeing things that God has made clear to us in His Word. With child-like Faith we read the word and consume the word into our lives. For some this might mean pulling out a notebook, highlighter, markers, pens, writing and highlighting our way through the word having a Dictionary, Thesaurus and Concordance on the side. But for others it is a little simpler to just reading and applying what is read to our every day lives. For many it is taking 1 verse or 2 a day or a portion a day and meditating on it throughout each day. For some it may be Journaling at the end of the day what they found when applying what they read to their life. Bible study is different for everyone just like study techniques in school is different for everyone. There is truly not one single way to study the Word of God. Each studies in whatever way works for them. The point of it all is to learn more about our Savior and about ourselves while applying what Christ teaches us through the Word into our lives and our relationships with others. Magnificent thing about God's creation of man (and woman) is that each is created in a unique way but all are created in His image and likeness showing the uniqueness of God Himself. And that leads to the fact that every person will also have a unique way of learning God's word and implementing it into their lives. TC

Hntr, You said you are wanting to share more about yourself with everyone, but the thing is, its easier to share in honesty. On your post here you said "I am only 16" and then you also said "I will be a junior this year", HOWEVER, in the chat room today, someone asked if you were ready to go back to school next week and you said you were 'going to college'. They stated that you seemed pretty young to be going to college. You then stated you were '19'. Then it was brought up that you said 16 on the forums and you said you have dyslexia and get your 6 and 9 mixed up and that you are 19, yet your posts here on the forum you say you are 16 and going to be a Junior (which at 16 would be a Junior in high school not a College junior). I then made the comment that I am also dyslexic, but on the keyboard the 6 and 9 are far apart to get them mixed up. In reading, yes a dyslexic gets those mixed up at times, but on a keyboard the numbers are far apart to get mixed up. After a while you then stated your 'keys are all mixed up on your keyboard' yet you were on a cell phone to post. The keys don't get mixed up on a keyboard on a cell phone. Even if your keys were switched on your laptop, at 16 or 19, you tend to know where the 6 is and where the 9 is so it's rather difficult to type in a dyslexic manner with the 2 numbers being so far apart on the keyboard. I guess I am saying if you are going to say you are open and wanting to share about yourself, it is more helpful to be totally honest than to make things up as you go. The Moderators can read the chat transcripts I am sure and see that conversation in chat which does not coincide with what you are stating in the forums. (I've passed this information and the discrepancy of the chat discussion vs. the forum discussion on to George who was in chat at the time) I know many of us would love to get to know the real you, but that starts with honesty in BOTH the Forums AND the Chat room. You don't need to make up stuff. Honesty is always the best policy. I hope you stick around so that you can truly come to know Christ and who you can be in Christ. But any relationship, even our one with Christ and with other Christians, always begins with HONESTY. TC

Keep one thing in mind: Facts are not feelings and feelings are not facts. It may 'feel' like God moved, but the fact is God never moves, we do. It may 'feel' like God doesn't hear your prayers, the fact is God hears and answers all prayers that come from the heart. It may "feel" like you are abandoned by God, but the fact is God never leaves us nor forsakes us. It may "feel" like you are all alone, but the fact is we are never alone, God is always present in our times of troubles. Facts are not feelings and feelings are not facts. Go by Faith instead of feelings. Believe and remind yourself that God is with you, God sees you, God knows you, and God is waiting for you to simply submit wholly and completely to Him and have Faith that He does care and loves you and is there waiting for you. TC