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1Heart
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Date Joined Feb 2004
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Posted 8/12/2004 4:25 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Semeia

And the worse I look in the morning, the more wild he is after me. If I haven’t had a shower and think I smell bad, he tells me I just smell like a more intense me, and he kisses me all over my smelly body and tells me he loves me!

Thanks,
Semeia

A little too much honesty! But touching (pun intended) none-the-less!

Jo-Anne

(Semeia)"I would say only love is the truth, and love always finds beauty in the beloved, without effort, without lies. Because the truth is that we are beautiful, and loved, and worthy of God’s greatest sacrifice.

And so it is not a lie to tell the Nazi guard something that is factually untrue. Because the Nazi guard does not recognize the worth of the Jewish family he hunts. He doesn’t see them as human, or beautiful, or worthy. What he is looking for – mere objects – are not there. What is hiding in the attic are precious irreplaceable unique loveable humans, who deserve protection, who deserve life.

Love recognizes and calls out the innate beauty and worth in the most subjectively ugly or flawed person. Love doesn’t call out the flaws.

And if you want to be honest with people, treat them as people who are worth dying for. Jesus doesn’t make us beautiful, wise, strong and awesome. He simply loves us as he finds us, in all our reality, and still chooses to die for us."

(Jo-Anne) Wow...that was very beautiful - honest Clown

"Sometimes all we can do is go back to the character of God, and drop anchor there."

1Heart
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Posted 8/12/2004 4:28 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Sahid

You're right. That was over the top. But there are somethings I'm sticking by. The first is Jesus is the only thing that makes us good or beautiful. Without Him we are unspeakably bad, with Him unspeakably good. Either way He loves us. He sees that potential within us.

Second, while we should display the love of Christ, especially to our spouses, we should all be getting our value from Jesus. A man or woman can't fill that need. That's probably not what you were saying, I know, but people are notoriously fallible and mortal. Jesus ain't.

Third, if my college friends and I are honest not just about the bad but the good too, I think there is some maturity in our relationship. That kind of honesty I will strive for in my relationships.

Uh.. That's it for now I have to go.

God Bless you Sahid. You'll find an honesty that honours Him. You have a sincere heart. I pray that He will bless you with a woman who is more than you could ask for.

Jo-Anne

"Sometimes all we can do is go back to the character of God, and drop anchor there."

1Heart
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Posted 8/12/2004 4:31 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by moon_river_j

God Bless you Sahid. You'll find an honesty that honours Him. You have a sincere heart. I pray that He will bless you with a woman who is more than you could ask for.

Jo-Anne

OK...where's Laika when you need'im? Now would be the perfect opportunity to insert one of those funny pics you're famous for!

Clown

"Sometimes all we can do is go back to the character of God, and drop anchor there."

Sahid
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Posted 8/13/2004 10:00 AM (GMT -6)

To often we as a society and as Christians settle for accepting the steriotypes. It doesn't have to be that way. The mountains melt like wax before God. Blind men see.

Watch me fly. Freedom like wings and I will use them. Freedom like wings and I will spread them wide. - Stavesacre

1Heart
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Posted 8/15/2004 8:41 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Sahid

To often we as a society and as Christians settle for accepting the steriotypes. It doesn't have to be that way. The mountains melt like wax before God. Blind men see.

Sahid,

Don't you think that a lot of what we accept is what we were taught from a very young age? When we were little, we were taught to respect authority figures (parents of course, teachers, people older than us...and that translated as believing that what they said; what they taught us was the truth, and to question them was considered disrespectful. Even now, there are those whom I would not question (at least openly), because it would be disrespectful.

Often we buy into; accept - that which we shouldn't.

God Bless,
Jo-Anne Eight Ball

"Sometimes all we can do is go back to the character of God, and drop anchor there."

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