[__ Prayer __] my parents :-)

[Christ_empowered]

they're...wonderful people.

I think...I needed Jesus (first and foremost...) and I also need miracles. lots of people need in miracles. somehow, I ended up with...more than I imagined, in some respects, but...not overnight, not without pain and a degree of suffering and...yeah. God is Good, clearly.

Anyway, now that Jesus has moved so mightily in my life, I see my parents as kinda sorta 'my mission field.' lol. i cannot 'convert' them, but i can...be good to them, in hopes that Jesus will find them more receptive, when (I pray, I pray, I pray) He knocks their hearts' doors, etc.

in the meantime...I Praise God for their health, their marital stability, and their stable jobs. the career thing is huge...people -still- talk about "getting his dad fired from ()!," I'm not really sure what the deal is...upward mobility brings out the demon in people, maybe? I dunno.

but yeah...I Praise THE LORD for His mercy and grace, and I also pray, for mama and dad.

 

[Brock]

I see my parents as kinda sorta 'my mission field.' lol. i cannot 'convert' them, but i can...be good to them, in hopes that Jesus will find them more receptive, when (I pray, I pray, I pray) He knocks their hearts' doors, etc.

I feel the same way brother! But I feel this way with my whole family really. My parents and one of my brothers really claim to believe in God and have accepted Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. I don't know, I guess you can say that I just don't see the fruit of a truly saved person in them. But at the same time I wasn't walking with God at all one time but I still believe I was saved. I'm no judge, nor do I have the right to be one, only God can do that. But I can't help suspect if they are really saved.

Anyway sorry for the mini rant, God Bless brother! I'll pray for your parents!

 

[Christ_empowered]

i hear you, Brock . my parents are both steeped in Calvinism. I think dad grew tired of it, got involved for a (thankfully, brief) time with a megachurch. If nothing else...at least they seem to have planted seeds (?). Problem is...

this whole "say a prayer and you're saved!" business is dangerous, for everyone involved. I'm not 110% devoted, but I am -a- Christian, and I have serious doubts about the state of their salvation, mostly because...

well, its like this...my dad will offer up a prayer now and then, but that's it. And he'so into that easy, breezy megachurch theology..."Thanks for dying for us, Jesus. Let's eat, y'all!," that its almost...-sigh-...I kinda wish he was just a straight up non-believer, not even trying to convince himself that he's saved vs whatever you call that megachurch junk.

but, hey: planting seeds. planting seeds. planting seeds. For all I know, the megachurch could have been one (mis)step on their way to salvation. kind of like...I dabbled in the occult and new age, looking for something, and then I learned about Jesus...and then Jesus moved on my heart and I got saved. OK, so...trying, trying, trying to withhold judgment, just kinda...

frustrated, more with false teachers than with them.

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

they're...wonderful people.

I think...I needed Jesus (first and foremost...) and I also need miracles. lots of people need in miracles. somehow, I ended up with...more than I imagined, in some respects, but...not overnight, not without pain and a degree of suffering and...yeah. God is Good, clearly.

Anyway, now that Jesus has moved so mightily in my life, I see my parents as kinda sorta 'my mission field.' lol. i cannot 'convert' them, but i can...be good to them, in hopes that Jesus will find them more receptive, when (I pray, I pray, I pray) He knocks their hearts' doors, etc.

in the meantime...I Praise God for their health, their marital stability, and their stable jobs. the career thing is huge...people -still- talk about "getting his dad fired from ()!," I'm not really sure what the deal is...upward mobility brings out the demon in people, maybe? I dunno.

but yeah...I Praise THE LORD for His mercy and grace, and I also pray, for mama and dad.

Oh trust me, the Lord knocks on everyone's hearts. It's up to the individuals to let them in though.

 

[Christ_empowered]

as if to prove my point about them being wonderful people...

I am probably going over there, to their place, for a meal later today. the puppies will be there (of course), to wow me with their amazing...puppy-ness. seriously. and there will be good food, and...

i was explaining to mama that I -am- trying to -not- be a recluse, you know...eventually, i will need to build a social network, however humble and small, of my own. volunteering is helpful to that end, but...i kinda doubt the fellow volunteers will do much with me (or each other, really) outside of the volunteer time slots. so...

she says 'you know...go slow, take your time. take it easy on all that.' and...im so thankful! because when we were estranged (my doing) and I was living in a rented apt., it looked like they were going to make me fend for myself, including socially. then...I think perhaps THE LORD's work in me and my life started shining thru, plus He worked on them, and...

-do- forgiveness. I'm learning to -do- forgiveness, in Christ, towards people who turned me against my parents, true Christianity...anything good, meaningful, and Real. And now....

they (my parents) are doing forgiveness, towards me, despite...everything (me, in particular).

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

as if to prove my point about them being wonderful people...

I am probably going over there, to their place, for a meal later today. the puppies will be there (of course), to wow me with their amazing...puppy-ness. seriously. and there will be good food, and...

i was explaining to mama that I -am- trying to -not- be a recluse, you know...eventually, i will need to build a social network, however humble and small, of my own. volunteering is helpful to that end, but...i kinda doubt the fellow volunteers will do much with me (or each other, really) outside of the volunteer time slots. so...

she says 'you know...go slow, take your time. take it easy on all that.' and...im so thankful! because when we were estranged (my doing) and I was living in a rented apt., it looked like they were going to make me fend for myself, including socially. then...I think perhaps THE LORD's work in me and my life started shining thru, plus He worked on them, and...

-do- forgiveness. I'm learning to -do- forgiveness, in Christ, towards people who turned me against my parents, true Christianity...anything good, meaningful, and Real. And now....

they (my parents) are doing forgiveness, towards me, despite...everything (me, in particular).

My comprehension of all that: 100%
My agreement to all of that: 100%