Christ_empowered
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As Easter approaches, I'm thankful for Christ and His work on The Cross and His Resurrection.
People in the neighborhood continue talking about "warrants," "prison," etc. I don't get it. I got into trouble, my dad hired a lawyer, I ended up with a misdemeanor, suspended sentence, probation. I've been off probation for a bit over 1 year now, I was released a bit early because of good behavior. That's the only thing on my record...that an unpaid traffic ticket.
So, as always...I ask that you keep my family and me up in prayer. When someone "doesn't know HIS PLACE in society" ends up being miraculously...I don't know...healed, restored, transformed....the townies get upset. Factor in my parents and I reconciling, their now "well-to-do" status, and the fact that they were barely working class when they first moved to this area, all those years ago...yeah. Good stuff, for my parents and for me, but...it doesn't seem to -sit well- with a lot of people. Oh, and I"m considered a "trouble maker," etc., and my former "Treatment providers" went all out on me, back in the day, and yet...God spared me! God saved me! And now...God has blessed me!
This is something of a mixed praise report (!!!) and prayer request, per usual. I'm blessed to have my parents. I"m blessed all over. More than once, people have tried to get my parents fired from their jobs, in part because of me...and other small town stuff, too. Not good, not good at all. Now mama's retired and dad's career looks like it'll end on a high note, when he chooses to retire.
Remember the woman caught in adultery, and how Jesus said "go forth, and sin no more" ? Yeah, that verse has popped into my mind a lot lately. I had all kinds of health problems. My own sins were enough to kill a small army, but The Lord spared me, anyway. I'm now healthy and surprisingly intelligent, despite my wons sins and things that were done to me. I'm thankful, I really am.
I pray for my own ongoing freedom, and I also Praise God for His goodness. He whom The Son has set free is set free, indeed. I was destroyed, trapped in bondage, and now...healthy, bright eyed, surprisingly "normal," even...and free, by His grace. Maybe that's why -now- I get more concerned when I hear this stuff? I lived in a bubble, then I was brain damaged, etc., so...I really didn't -get- human nature, sin, reality, etc., until a good bit -after- The Lord saved me. Now...I'm not super scared, 24/7, but I think on it and...man oh man. People can be vicious, they really can be. Maybe that's part of it, too...realizing, now, how desperately sick I was, and how much cruelty was heaped on me...then I survived (Praise God!), and I was just called a "Freak," etc. Ugh.
Anyway...thanks for reading, thanks for the prayers+support. I mean that, and Happy Good Friday!
People in the neighborhood continue talking about "warrants," "prison," etc. I don't get it. I got into trouble, my dad hired a lawyer, I ended up with a misdemeanor, suspended sentence, probation. I've been off probation for a bit over 1 year now, I was released a bit early because of good behavior. That's the only thing on my record...that an unpaid traffic ticket.
So, as always...I ask that you keep my family and me up in prayer. When someone "doesn't know HIS PLACE in society" ends up being miraculously...I don't know...healed, restored, transformed....the townies get upset. Factor in my parents and I reconciling, their now "well-to-do" status, and the fact that they were barely working class when they first moved to this area, all those years ago...yeah. Good stuff, for my parents and for me, but...it doesn't seem to -sit well- with a lot of people. Oh, and I"m considered a "trouble maker," etc., and my former "Treatment providers" went all out on me, back in the day, and yet...God spared me! God saved me! And now...God has blessed me!
This is something of a mixed praise report (!!!) and prayer request, per usual. I'm blessed to have my parents. I"m blessed all over. More than once, people have tried to get my parents fired from their jobs, in part because of me...and other small town stuff, too. Not good, not good at all. Now mama's retired and dad's career looks like it'll end on a high note, when he chooses to retire.
Remember the woman caught in adultery, and how Jesus said "go forth, and sin no more" ? Yeah, that verse has popped into my mind a lot lately. I had all kinds of health problems. My own sins were enough to kill a small army, but The Lord spared me, anyway. I'm now healthy and surprisingly intelligent, despite my wons sins and things that were done to me. I'm thankful, I really am.
I pray for my own ongoing freedom, and I also Praise God for His goodness. He whom The Son has set free is set free, indeed. I was destroyed, trapped in bondage, and now...healthy, bright eyed, surprisingly "normal," even...and free, by His grace. Maybe that's why -now- I get more concerned when I hear this stuff? I lived in a bubble, then I was brain damaged, etc., so...I really didn't -get- human nature, sin, reality, etc., until a good bit -after- The Lord saved me. Now...I'm not super scared, 24/7, but I think on it and...man oh man. People can be vicious, they really can be. Maybe that's part of it, too...realizing, now, how desperately sick I was, and how much cruelty was heaped on me...then I survived (Praise God!), and I was just called a "Freak," etc. Ugh.
Anyway...thanks for reading, thanks for the prayers+support. I mean that, and Happy Good Friday!
