Ryal

Not too sure if this fits in with your post BUT, to me we are given obstacles in our life, good or bad. How we get through them and learn from them shows the type of person we are. God has always been there for me even before I accepted Him. I had to find Him on my own. I found Him and my life is getting better everyday. I have recently hit rock bottom in my marriage but by the power and healing and strength He has given me, it's getting easier to heal my heart. He is always with us no matter what.

Well, for me, when i do it it is because I want to know the truth when I have already been told it. Kind of like I am reaching for something that's not there. Sick I know.

Yes:(

We all know that alcohol is poison. We might have a drink here and there but, what happens when 2 drinks become 4? So often I have heard stories about people getting drunk at a dance club or a bar and then wake up the next morning regretting the actions that took place the night before. Alcohol clouds your good judgement. It makes you feel invincible and while you are still aware of your actions, you don't think of the consequences until you sober up. Things like this have ruined relationships, marriages and have cost lives. I have been through it and I continue to fight through it. I might have a drink here and there but I will NEVER allow myself to lose my good judgement! Alcohol=Drunk=Bad Choices=Regret!!!! REMEMBER THAT!!!!

Without really trying, I have been healing my heart. The pain is starting to dull and go away. I won't forget what happened BUT, I cannot let it control my life. Time stops for no one and all the time wasted trying to figure out what it happened, what went on, who it was with and all those little petty things that doesn't change what ultimatly happened. It's just beating a dead horse and this is what I have come to. I am putting it in a box and burrying it deep beneath the earth so it can't come back. I so wish I could post my testimony on here because I ask you all for prayer but sometimes it helps to know what I am talking about. I just want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for giving me advise and prayers when no one knows me. It truly shows you how wonderful being a Child of God is and that being in a positive state of mind brightens up your day! THANK YOU!!!!

We only do when we lift weights!

How do you put the past behind you? How do you take the pain that causes so much hurt to you away? How do you truly forgive the sinners and move on? How do you not picture things and wonder and ask yourself questions? How do you be a strong person and let things go? How do you stop hating and start living? Why does the pain hurt so much that it control your everyday, every thought, every breath? How do you stop crying and start smiling? How do I start having good days and not just good moments? How do you look into your lovers eyes and see him and not what he has done?

I talk to God all the time throughout the day. In my head and outloud. He is my bestfriend and I don't care who thinks it's silly. It helps me get through my day if I am feeling down.

I am hot headed. I take offense to too many things and instead of talking in a normal like fashion, I turn into a mean old lady. What I have learned from being in the Marine Corps is that you can't take things personaly. You really can't take offense to what people say especially if they don't mean anything to you. People are people and talk is talk. Being polite and stern will get you furthur in any conversation than being mean. Take a deep breath and let it roll off your shoulders. You will come across alot more of this type of stuff from rude people but don't take it personaly!!!

That is wicked nasty!

Monster In Law was wicked awesome!

You don't have to be deployed to hear the snickers of others about what you do and why you do it.

Ok wait a second. If you ask me, if your faith is so weak that you can't expose yourself to secular music and concerts, watch movies that kids should not watch, acknowledge when someone other than your spouse is nice looking, or drink, then your faith is pretty weak. I like the old hymns but I cant stand contemporary christian music and never listen to it. I watch R rated movies sometimes. I joke with people I know all the time. And I enjoy a cold beer. None of that makes me any less of a Christian than anyone else, nor does it make me a hypocrite because I don't chastise others for doing the same. I'm sure you are a fine wonderful child of God. She on the other hand has it in her mind that she is only allowed to be pardoned by her actions but no one else.

Great advice all! She has been a christian for 4 years now. She seems to have more guy friends than women friends because she says that women gripe too much lol. She is a nice person but once she starts to look bad in anyway, she dimissed you. Like her and I started getting tired of each other and started picking at each other, pointing out our flaws and just being really judgemental. I always got along with her husband who has been a christian for many many years. Once her and I started to not be friends, she would overly make it a point to acknowledge my husband and not me. Invite him places like her husbands going away party and tell me that I have to tell her why I don't like her or not go at all. Like I had to audition or something. I wish you all knew her it would be so much easier than to try to explain her lol.

To me anything can be pornography. A love novel, a fitness magazine, a post card, anything really. It is how the person viewing it intends on using it. I have some fitness mags that have some very racy pictures in it for fitness purposes but to someone looking for a thrill, there you go a magazine meant for health and exercise just turned into a porn.

I wanted to talk to you about a person I know and how she is when it comes to hypocritcy. Now please help me understand her better so the feelings of anger towards her will soon vanish. She is young, 19 years old, been married for a year. Not that this really matters. Okay the point: Hmmm...She claims to be a strong christian. Her and her husband both. They go to bible study and to church. They study the bible at home, pray and all around try to go by WWJD. She also listens and attends secular music/concerts, watches not so nice movies, calls people morons, and other non "swear" names jokingly to her friends, she thinks other men besides her husband is hott(not too sure if that is okay but I wouldn't do it) she has said that she would have "relations" with a certain movie star if she was given the chance, she drinks on occaission(not old enough) she judges people too often and she thinks too highly of herself. Now, I am not a hater in anyway but when she judges how I live my life and she questions it and acts like she is the perfect christian girl and only because she has God in her heart then her actions are okay, everyone else stinks! I was wicked close to her when I 1st met her. Our husbands are Marines and were great friends. Then her true side came out and she became one of the biggest hypocrites I have ever know. Please give me some insight on her so I can come to ease with this. Talking to her is like talking to a wall.