Who I respect the most on AFF!!

[Margies3]

Funny! I was just thinking this morning about all the people on AFF that I have the highest respect for. There are, in fact, only a very few who I would say don't fit into that catagory. VERY few

And no, they are not all ultra cons. MOW certainly fits that catagory very well. MichaelPhelps, One Accord, Renda, Sherri, Tamor, HeavenlyOne, SteveHoover, and on and on and on........... Because they know where they've been. And they know where they are now. And they are fine with it. Maybe the past wasn't perfect. But they don't whine about it. They are secure in the belief that they are in the place RIGHT NOW where GOD wants them to be. And that's enough.

What brought this about? I am reading a book by the man who started "Give Kids the World", a program at Disney for Make-A-Wish kids. He tells his story in. He was a Jew in WW2 and the atrocities that he suffered make anything that ANY of us go thru look like a cake walk. But he took that suffering and persecution and made it into something positive and wonderful!!

So I was thinking that sometimes we, as Christians, whine about how other Christians treated us. We act as if we deserved better. Maybe we did. But why can't we just dig deep and get a good attitude and turn our pasts into a stepping stone for a future where we can be used by God for HIS work?

I've seen so many on here do just that. Those are the ones I hold in highest regard! Thanks for being great examples for the rest of us.

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Margies3

Funny! I was just thinking this morning about all the people on AFF that I have the highest respect for. There are, in fact, only a very few who I would say don't fit into that catagory. VERY few

And no, they are not all ultra cons. MOW certainly fits that catagory very well. MichaelPhelps, One Accord, Renda, Sherri, Tamor, HeavenlyOne, SteveHoover, and on and on and on........... Because they know where they've been. And they know where they are now. And they are fine with it. Maybe the past wasn't perfect. But they don't whine about it. They are secure in the belief that they are in the place RIGHT NOW where GOD wants them to be. And that's enough.

What brought this about? I am reading a book by the man who started "Give Kids the World", a program at Disney for Make-A-Wish kids. He tells his story in. He was a Jew in WW2 and the atrocities that he suffered make anything that ANY of us go thru look like a cake walk. But he took that suffering and persecution and made it into something positive and wonderful!!

So I was thinking that sometimes we, as Christians, whine about how other Christians treated us. We act as if we deserved better. Maybe we did. But why can't we just dig deep and get a good attitude and turn our pasts into a stepping stone for a future where we can be used by God for HIS work?

I've seen so many on here do just that. Those are the ones I hold in highest regard! Thanks for being great examples for the rest of us.

And all of this from a Methodist!

Margie - - great words!!!

[Margies3]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

And all of this from a Methodist!

Margie - - great words!!!

LOL! and just FYI, we haven't been Methodists for the past 3 years. We changed to the Swanton Alliance Church at that time. There were more church problems at the Methodist church at that time than we cared to be involved in. That is not what worshipping every Sunday is all about. It's about God, not church politics. So after almost 20 years (for me) and over 50 years for Walt, we pulled out and changed churches. It's been a great move tho. We have no regrets at all. And we still have friends in the Methodist church - people who might not have remained our friends if we had stayed there.