Christ_empowered
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Thanks again, everyone.
Life is good. This is only because God is good, because my life used to be very difficult and painful, and not even in a productive, meaningful way, like life can be at times when you're in Christ. I mean, I was low status, ugly, stigmatized, suffering, and that was that: that was my life.
Now, I have life and that more abundantly,in Christ Jesus. I seem to have recovered from what came before (stress, drugs, sins, shock, blows to head, etc.) remarkably well, and only because of Christ.
I'm blessed to have my people. I'm becoming less whiny and all and more geuinely appreciative of what God has done and is doing in our lives.
New Year's was awesome! Mama did old school, mashed (red) potatoes. My dad went all out with some ribs slow cooked in the oven. Ordinarily, I'm all about the mashed potatoes, but the ribs were so good and all, I mostly focused on that (I know, you need to know the minute details of my New Year's Day meal...).
Point is, there's not this horrible tension and simmering resentment on all sides of my relationship with my parents. We all 3 went through it, God is good, we're all 3 doing much, much better. Mama retires this summer, which is amazing. She's in overtime already :-( Lame, but at least she gets paid extra $$$ for it.
Anyway...thanks again. My parents like their little (and bigger) trips, so I'll undoubtedly be back here, asking for prayer. This shorter trip showed me some things, like I can keep on keepin' on, even if the rednecks next door are getting rowdy and loud. I can, in fact, take care of a kinda big(ish) house and house dogs, cats, etc. I'm not an invalid, nor am I as crippled by everything as I was even recently.
I really must go. Mama went grocery shopping hungry, so we have 2 packs of jalepeno poppers. I'm almost finished baking 1 pack of them (I know, eat up, fat boy!). I also got some high brow coffee for Christmas, so I've brewed up my last batch of that and enjoying it.
Life is good. This is only because God is good, because my life used to be very difficult and painful, and not even in a productive, meaningful way, like life can be at times when you're in Christ. I mean, I was low status, ugly, stigmatized, suffering, and that was that: that was my life.
Now, I have life and that more abundantly,in Christ Jesus. I seem to have recovered from what came before (stress, drugs, sins, shock, blows to head, etc.) remarkably well, and only because of Christ.
I'm blessed to have my people. I'm becoming less whiny and all and more geuinely appreciative of what God has done and is doing in our lives.
New Year's was awesome! Mama did old school, mashed (red) potatoes. My dad went all out with some ribs slow cooked in the oven. Ordinarily, I'm all about the mashed potatoes, but the ribs were so good and all, I mostly focused on that (I know, you need to know the minute details of my New Year's Day meal...).
Point is, there's not this horrible tension and simmering resentment on all sides of my relationship with my parents. We all 3 went through it, God is good, we're all 3 doing much, much better. Mama retires this summer, which is amazing. She's in overtime already :-( Lame, but at least she gets paid extra $$$ for it.
Anyway...thanks again. My parents like their little (and bigger) trips, so I'll undoubtedly be back here, asking for prayer. This shorter trip showed me some things, like I can keep on keepin' on, even if the rednecks next door are getting rowdy and loud. I can, in fact, take care of a kinda big(ish) house and house dogs, cats, etc. I'm not an invalid, nor am I as crippled by everything as I was even recently.
I really must go. Mama went grocery shopping hungry, so we have 2 packs of jalepeno poppers. I'm almost finished baking 1 pack of them (I know, eat up, fat boy!). I also got some high brow coffee for Christmas, so I've brewed up my last batch of that and enjoying it.
