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Tigress
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Posted 1/7/2004 4:31 AM (GMT -6)

Hi All,
As is typical, I've been going through some more emotional crises lately. I'm almost 30 and I feel like I've really been wasting my life because of all my fears. I don't want the rest of my life to be like this. Please pray for me. I really need it. Thank you.

Tigress

"Name a shrub after me. Preferably one that's prickly and difficult to eradicate."

-Captain Jack Aubrey
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"

Laika
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Posted 1/7/2004 4:49 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Tigress

Hi All,
As is typical, I've been going through some more emotional crises lately. I'm almost 30 and I feel like I've really been wasting my life because of all my fears. I don't want the rest of my life to be like this. Please pray for me. I really need it. Thank you.

You're "almost 30"???? Want to trade ages?

prayers sent

inside you the time moves and she don't fade
the ghost in you she don't fade

Tigress
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Date Joined Feb 2003
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Posted 1/7/2004 4:57 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Laika

quote:
Originally posted by Tigress

Hi All,
As is typical, I've been going through some more emotional crises lately. I'm almost 30 and I feel like I've really been wasting my life because of all my fears. I don't want the rest of my life to be like this. Please pray for me. I really need it. Thank you.

You're "almost 30"???? Want to trade ages?

prayers sent

Hardy har har. Smile

I'm serious Laika. There's so much I could have done during the last 8 to 10 years but instead I just isolated myself at home, too afraid to extend myself and go out of my comfort zone to serve God and others. I'm an extremely self-centered person so I haven't done much of anything of Kingdom value in my life. I want that to change, but I can't seem to break free of all my fears in order to do that.

Tigress

"Name a shrub after me. Preferably one that's prickly and difficult to eradicate."

-Captain Jack Aubrey
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"

Laika
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Date Joined Mar 2003
Total Posts : 2433

Posted 1/7/2004 5:04 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Tigress
Hardy har har. I'm serious Laika. There's so much I could have done during the last 8 to 10 years but instead I just isolated myself at home, too afraid to extend myself and go out of my comfort zone to serve God and others. I'm an extremely self-centered person so I haven't done much of anything of Kingdom value in my life. I want that to change, but I can't seem to break free of all my fears in order to do that.

You're not even thirty yet! Yes, you should get going with something but you've got lots of life ahead of you yet, God willing and the creek don't rise. Take small steps, set easy goals, get started. The quickest prayer God answers is "use me".

inside you the time moves and she don't fade
the ghost in you she don't fade

DLW
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Posted 1/7/2004 5:20 AM (GMT -6)

will pray.

I got really bad reviews on one of my courses this past semester. We had a question and answer sessions, where I would show up and ask "any questions" and if there were no questions, I would leave. This didn't go well with the majority of my students, who in all fairness needed more guidance with the reading than I was giving them. I also didn't get enough of my research done.

So I'm hoping to turn over a new leaf this semester now that I have a lighter teaching load and have beaten my big issues of abortion and homosexuality like a drum at this board and TheologyWeb. I'm also hoping to tune out the election-year politics as I need to come to terms with my own time-limitations....

So if you'll pray for me Tigress, I'll pray for you...

dlw

Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

Tigress
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Posted 1/7/2004 5:27 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Laika

quote:
Originally posted by Tigress
Hardy har har. I'm serious Laika. There's so much I could have done during the last 8 to 10 years but instead I just isolated myself at home, too afraid to extend myself and go out of my comfort zone to serve God and others. I'm an extremely self-centered person so I haven't done much of anything of Kingdom value in my life. I want that to change, but I can't seem to break free of all my fears in order to do that.

You're not even thirty yet! Yes, you should get going with something but you've got lots of life ahead of you yet, God willing and the creek don't rise. Take small steps, set easy goals, get started. The quickest prayer God answers is "use me".

I'll be 30 on April 1st. I guess part of the problem is it's not just me not serving God, it's also that I haven't even really been enjoying my life. I've been too afraid to try new and fun things and I don't have any close friendships with anyone. I feel like I've wasted the best years of my life, because - no offense - once you hit 30 everything's pretty much downhill from there. When you're in your 20's everything is supposed to be so fun and free and wonderful, but I've been too chicken to live happily during the last decade. Instead I crawled up into my lonely shell and let all the fun pass me by. Now, I'm just getting old. I wanted to have been married long before 30 because - let's face it - our bodies don't look too beautiful by about 30 and after. I wanted my husband to be able to enjoy me with a nicer body amongst all else. So, it just really almost feels like a death sentence to me, to become 30 without having made any really good memories for myself in my twenties. Sorry to be so blunt, but that's just how I feel. The only consolation I have is that Jesus' ministry didn't really start until He was about thirty. So, I tend to wonder - and hope - that God will really jumpstart my life from here on out.

Tigress

"Name a shrub after me. Preferably one that's prickly and difficult to eradicate."

-Captain Jack Aubrey
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"

Laika
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Posted 1/7/2004 5:46 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Tigress
I feel like I've wasted the best years of my life, because - no offense - once you hit 30 everything's pretty much downhill from there.

Yeah but it's more fun to ski down the hill than climb up it. Wink

inside you the time moves and she don't fade
the ghost in you she don't fade

Tigress
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Date Joined Feb 2003
Total Posts : 1252

Posted 1/7/2004 6:03 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by DLW

will pray.

I got really bad reviews on one of my courses this past semester. We had a question and answer sessions, where I would show up and ask "any questions" and if there were no questions, I would leave. This didn't go well with the majority of my students, who in all fairness needed more guidance with the reading than I was giving them. I also didn't get enough of my research done.

So I'm hoping to turn over a new leaf this semester now that I have a lighter teaching load and have beaten my big issues of abortion and homosexuality like a drum at this board and TheologyWeb. I'm also hoping to tune out the election-year politics as I need to come to terms with my own time-limitations....

So if you'll pray for me Tigress, I'll pray for you...

dlw

Sure, David. I'm sorry you got such bad reviews. That has to feel really horrible. To put yourself up in front of a group of people and let them judge your performance and they judged it not good - that has to hurt. That's one of the reasons I didn't go into teaching. Public speaking absolutely petrifies me, and then to be forced to submit to a performance review in front of that group at the end of the semester would just be too much for me to handle. I'd crumble for sure. I'm extremely impressed with anyone who can handle it, like yourself.

Tigress

"Name a shrub after me. Preferably one that's prickly and difficult to eradicate."

-Captain Jack Aubrey
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"

DLW
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Date Joined Apr 2003
Total Posts : 2457

Posted 1/7/2004 7:45 AM (GMT -6)

Well, the important thing is to learn from your mistakes. I also apparently am little idealistic in my expectations for my students and they don't like doing as much work as I require of them, to say nothing of the discomfort for them from reading and writing about difficult material in another language.

That makes teaching more difficult, to a certain extent the honeymoon seems to be over between me and my students, but I'm sure things will get better.

dlw

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