Clear as mud.

[southernbelle47]

For I seek not to understand in order that I may believe; but I
believe in order that I may understand, for I believe for this
reason: that unless I believe, I cannot understand.

-- Anselm of Canterbury

Ok.I'm dizzy!

For me the path to understanding has been a life long one.
When I was a child, I believed as a child.
But as I've grown, I've learned that in order to know more, sometimes I just have to have faith even when I don't understand something.
Then the light comes on after I've taken a step out in faith.
It's kinda like when your kids are small and they jump off the side of a pool and totally trust you to catch them.
The first time or two it is hard for them to do, but then....
all of a sudden they are laughing and joyfully jumping into the pool knowing you will be there and catch them.
Now their head may go under for a short second, but it's ok because we pull them up and set them on the side for the next jump!
I have so wished that I was different and didn't have "our problem".
But God.........has shown me how to trust and have faith through all this.
The journey continues.........

:h Nancy

[Eliziby]

Clear as mud.

Nancy, I can't tell you how many times I have wished the same thing, only my wish included, "I wish I had never started." I don't know what made me think that drinking would make my pain of losing my son any easier. Oh, it clouded the evenings all right, but the next AM and day was worst because of it. I think God expects us to use all our experiances, even our wrong ones, to help others, and give Him the glory for our survival, and praise Him for seeing us through. His word tells us that in all things we should give thanks. I'm not sure that includes giving thanks that we had a drinking problem, but I know that it includes thanks for the opportunity to share and help each other because of it, and Nancy, you're doing a good job of that. Thanks, Liz

[southernbelle47]

Clear as mud.

I love you Eliziby!
You are soooo correct! (As usual) )

More on "jumping in!


Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt
his fisher's coat unto him ... and did cast himself into
the sea.

John 21:7
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=joh+21:7&sr=1

Have you ever had a crisis in which you deliberately and emphatically
and recklessly abandoned everything? It is a crisis of will. You may
come up to it many times externally, but it amounts to nothing. The
real deep crisis of abandonment is reached internally, not
externally. The giving up of external things may be an indication of
being in total bondage.

Have you deliberately committed your will to Jesus Christ? It is a
transaction of will, not of emotion; the emotion is simply the
gilt-edge of the transaction. If you allow emotion first, you will
never make the transaction. Do not ask God what the transaction is to
be, but make it in regard to the thing you do see, either in the
shallow or the profound place.

If you have heard Jesus Christ's voice on the billows, let your
convictions go to the winds, let your consistency go to the winds,
but maintain your relationship to Him.

JUMP!!!!! HE'LL CATCH YOU EVERY TIME!

:h YOU ALL
NANCY

[tea]

Clear as mud.

Thank you Nancy, you BABE you.....