I've been blessed to experience the good and the bad with pastors. I consider the bad experience something to learn from and also something that led me to where I am today, which is a much better place than where I would be had God not moved me out of that church.
Become better, not bitter. Wipe the dust off your feet, walk away and move forward. Remember you're living for and serving God, not a Pastor.
I confess, that I was scared to open this thread. I was afraid of what I would read, of what it might make me feel. Would I get angry? Would I again taste bitterness? Would the darkness that only yesterday I thought fully vanquished, be resurrected?
I admit that I could only bear to read the first and last 5 pages, and they filled me with unbelievable sadness. People do things, sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally that hurt other people. Those hurt people often in times react by hurting still others. Until our lives are nothing but a huge cycle of hurt and suffering. And it seems like there is no option but to lie weeping on the ground in hopelessness.
Until I remember Jesus. Until I remember that love is always stronger, and that with love comes hope, and peace, and forgiveness and life.
1 Cor 13:7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
I confess, that I was scared to open this thread. I was afraid of what I would read, of what it might make me feel. Would I get angry? Would I again taste bitterness? Would the darkness that only yesterday I thought fully vanquished, be resurrected?
I admit that I could only bear to read the first and last 5 pages, and they filled me with unbelievable sadness. People do things, sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally that hurt other people. Those hurt people often in times react by hurting still others. Until our lives are nothing but a huge cycle of hurt and suffering. And it seems like there is no option but to lie weeping on the ground in hopelessness.
Until I remember Jesus. Until I remember that love is always stronger, and that with love comes hope, and peace, and forgiveness and life.
1 Cor 13:7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
Awesome post Mitch.
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I confess, that I was scared to open this thread. I was afraid of what I would read, of what it might make me feel. Would I get angry? Would I again taste bitterness? Would the darkness that only yesterday I thought fully vanquished, be resurrected?
I admit that I could only bear to read the first and last 5 pages, and they filled me with unbelievable sadness. People do things, sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally that hurt other people. Those hurt people often in times react by hurting still others. Until our lives are nothing but a huge cycle of hurt and suffering. And it seems like there is no option but to lie weeping on the ground in hopelessness.
Until I remember Jesus. Until I remember that love is always stronger, and that with love comes hope, and peace, and forgiveness and life.
1 Cor 13:7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
Hey folks, when semeone says "Get over it" they are admitting it may have happened. But I have to be honest, some of the stuff that some folks post here that has suppossedly hurt and devastated them leaves me wondering just how emotionally mature they are and how full of the Spirit they are.
The truth of the matter is I can match a good many of you story for story about hurts and abuses. But what is the point? The events that occur in a life will either become stumbling blocks or stepping stones. And the person who puts them in your way will never be the determining factor of whether it becomes a stumbling block or a stepping stone. Only you can determine that. So make a choice. And sorry, IMO that choice does not begin with healing. it begins by getting over it and moving on. Hurts are real. So is Jesus.
The answer is to shoot ALL pastors and put the ladies artillery in charge.
novel idea. Who needs a pastor when you have Lady Healers?
But wait, if you shoot all of the pastors whatever will folks do that live for the next abuse, wound, criticism, etc? They will go stark raving mad without their regular fix.
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