Hang In or Let Go? Do Both!! :)

Originally Posted by Coonskinner

Hindsight is what you get when you accidentally swallow your contact lense.

Only if you re-use it after you find it again...

[Felicity]

Uh oh....... RG Craig is speaking gobble-dy-gook again.

Last night when I signed in I couldn't figure out what was going on. I guess somebody (wonder who it could be .... hmmm ... a name that starts with B and ends in M comes to mind ) has found some new toy to play with.

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Felicity

Uh oh....... RG Craig is speaking gobble-dy-gook again.

Last night when I signed in I couldn't figure out what was going on. I guess somebody (wonder who it could be .... hmmm ... a name that starts with B and ends in M comes to mind ) has found some new toy to play with.

I know - - freaked me out.

[Felicity]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

Well, when the time is right, this would be good to share with them.

I suppose I have shared bits and pieces here and there. I know this ..... if it wasn't for some of the things that happened and that I experienced personally several years back pastoring at this time and in this place would be much more stressful and difficult than it's been.

Not everything that happens is good but even the unpleasant situations we face in life - pressure, stress, getting to the end of our ropes so to speak - certainly prepares us for more difficult assignments down the road and the experience is invaluable. Things that might have thrown me 7 or 8 years ago don't faze me much now at all .... just a blip on the radar screen.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm becoming too dispassionate but I don't think so.

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Felicity

I suppose I have shared bits and pieces here and there. I know this ..... if it wasn't for some of the things that happened and that I experienced personally several years back pastoring at this time and in this place would be much more stressful and difficult than it's been.

Not everything that happens is good but even the unpleasant situations we face in life - pressure, stress, getting to the end of our ropes so to speak - certainly prepares us for more difficult assignments down the road and the experience is invaluable. Things that might have thrown me 7 or 8 years ago don't faze me much now at all .... just a blip on the radar screen.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm becoming too dispassionate but I don't think so.

No, it's not dispassionate, but maturing. The things that minister to others that you have experienced yourself will kick in when needed as reference.

Your experience are like a file cabinet - some you may never need to open the file again, but some you might open from time to time and some you never file away because you need to reference them all the time!