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RE: The PFY Book Club - 7/11/2008 10:57:20 PM
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WaitingforBoaz
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PART TWO
A Season of Strengthening
The Sovereign Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like the feet of a deer, He enables me to go on the heights. Habakkuk 3:19
Chapter 4
Alone in Your Pain
Releasing the Burden
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RE: The PFY Book Club - 7/17/2008 12:09:59 PM
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WalkingwithHim2
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Heya Nadine...just wanted to give you an update: I finally received the book after waiting ever so impatiently for 2-3 weeks only to open the box and discover that they sent me the wrong book! When I called them they said ... oops we can send you the right book and you should have it in 1-2 weeks..uh how bout no.
Sorry I wasn't able to participate in your thread ... I was sooo looking forward to it.
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RE: The PFY Book Club - 7/17/2008 11:10:43 PM
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CoeurdeLeon_
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Nadine, I don't know where this week went. I haven't read the chapter yet. I will do my level best to do it and post tomorrow but if I can't, can we have an extension?
I apologize for not keeping up better.
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This morning I was awakened by the sound of purple
colliding with the fragrance of laughter.
Eutychus
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RE: The PFY Book Club - 7/26/2008 7:32:10 PM
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CoeurdeLeon_
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One of the worst years of my life was the one in which I couldn't even talk to my best friend much less confide in her. I was trying desperately to hold my marriage together while my husband headed further and further down the road toward adultery. I could see it coming and was helpless to stop it. My best friend dealt with my husband at work and she could see what was happening, too. But I couldn't talk to her about it because I knew what she'd say (and she'd have been right, too) and I was trying so hard to hold everything together, including myself. There was no where to put the pain and I did emotional damage to myself by keeping it bottled up.
I'll never keep quiet like that again. I think one of the hardest things for Christian women to deal with is the guilt they feel for having pain. If we really were a good Christian, there would be nothing but joy, right? Wrong. Telling someone else lets us confirm that there's a legitimate reason for the hurt and that we aren't a lousy Christian. And once we are healed, we have untold depths of empathy for others. We can be a safe place for someone else to lay down the burden of their pain. That's one of the many ways God turns our pain into something good that glorifies Him.
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This morning I was awakened by the sound of purple
colliding with the fragrance of laughter.
Eutychus
10.13.08
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