Christ_empowered
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I know...I've kind of taken over this part of CFnet. Oops. :-(
mama just dropped by. she didn't load me down, but she brought stuff I needed....and a big canister of mixed nuts. Oh, how I love mixed nuts. Anyway..
I told her, right as she was about to leave "I appreciate it, mama," to which she responded "I know you do." See what God can do? I was once, (perhaps not so) many moons ago, a brat/narcissist/whiner from a "rinky dink middle class family." The " " isn't from me; its quotes from others in the area. OK. So, predictably, I had a rough existence...then Jesus saved me about 5 1/2 years ago, and now...
I have some kind of "severe mental illness" going on, but I'm not a brat/narcissist, etc. "You must die to be Born Again." The Schizophrenia/Bipolar/whatever is just...part of my experience of life, for now, possibly as long as I'm on earth. It is what it is...
My parents are now more "comfortable," which I guess is what southerners call the white collar, upper-middle classes. I'm thankful. Really, though, I'm trying -not- to use and abuse their stuff...-but-, since I Have to deal with Mental Health, Inc., their higher status gives me a "buffer" against angry shrinks and counselors. ugh. "Its not -what- you know; its -who- you know," and "money makes the world go 'round," etc.
Thing is...mama's got this genuine, deep, -maternal- love towards me now, again...and I'm thankful. I love her, too, of course...and that's God's work, too.
My dad even called today. He chatted me up 'bout his day, then asked me about mine, and...he's got a genuine, paternal love towards me, despise everything (especially...the old me, pre-Jesus...), and...
yes, yes; I bet you saw this one coming...God is good!
Thanks, y'all.
mama just dropped by. she didn't load me down, but she brought stuff I needed....and a big canister of mixed nuts. Oh, how I love mixed nuts. Anyway..
I told her, right as she was about to leave "I appreciate it, mama," to which she responded "I know you do." See what God can do? I was once, (perhaps not so) many moons ago, a brat/narcissist/whiner from a "rinky dink middle class family." The " " isn't from me; its quotes from others in the area. OK. So, predictably, I had a rough existence...then Jesus saved me about 5 1/2 years ago, and now...
I have some kind of "severe mental illness" going on, but I'm not a brat/narcissist, etc. "You must die to be Born Again." The Schizophrenia/Bipolar/whatever is just...part of my experience of life, for now, possibly as long as I'm on earth. It is what it is...
My parents are now more "comfortable," which I guess is what southerners call the white collar, upper-middle classes. I'm thankful. Really, though, I'm trying -not- to use and abuse their stuff...-but-, since I Have to deal with Mental Health, Inc., their higher status gives me a "buffer" against angry shrinks and counselors. ugh. "Its not -what- you know; its -who- you know," and "money makes the world go 'round," etc.
Thing is...mama's got this genuine, deep, -maternal- love towards me now, again...and I'm thankful. I love her, too, of course...and that's God's work, too.
My dad even called today. He chatted me up 'bout his day, then asked me about mine, and...he's got a genuine, paternal love towards me, despise everything (especially...the old me, pre-Jesus...), and...
yes, yes; I bet you saw this one coming...God is good!
Thanks, y'all.
