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I just had a similar discussion last week: what is easier for the Lord (if there could be such a thing), changing someone’s heart, or healing them physically?

takes a lot of humility to let Him change your heart, ’specially the older we get…

But just now I read this post about 7 years ago. I go to the part about reading the Bible cover to cover and being welcomed into the Body of Christ.

It brought tears to my eyes. Even now, 5 minutes later, just writing this I tear up. These are tears of joy. Alleluia, my sister in Christ, alleluia. I don’t know why i get like this–being a guy, it kinda is dumb. But I cry when i see someone a) lay down their life for another in the name of Christ; b) show how much they love Him by their actions; and probably some other times too.

Just mentioning the Body of Christ here showed your love for Him, La Shawn. For some reason, just those two statements about the Word and the Body let me see how much you love Jesus. You stay on that narrow way, girl. He’s gonna honor you, you wait and see, more than you could ask or imagine.

Just wanted to tell you, semper fi!

Alcoholism has had a huge impact on me (indirectly)… I have seen several family members eaten up by it… including my mother (eventually killing her).

I vowed many years ago… never to touch the stuff. And I don’t smoke either.

The Bible?
I was turned off to organized religion some time ago… but I have studied the book off & on…. beginning many years ago. Read it all the way through the first time about 15 years ago.

I do believe in a higher being of course…

I may eventually find a good non-denominational church… I like organizations with a reputation for their works….

Too many corporate mega churches and not enough churches actually doing serious work on the ground. (one of the reasons that I don’t bother with church…most are a waste of time).

Since then, I am bored, working for the post office in same job, about to fired this week I think, with English degree, but single and adrift.

No wife, no kids yet. Though, I think something grand will happen at any moment, and believe all things work together for good.

But still, not too much has changed since 1999, and I have myself to blame.

We were all worried about Y2K, and preparing for the end of the world.

Clinton was spending all that money on computers, which should have went to defense.

It seems like the world has ended several times. Dec 31, 1999, then 9/11, then 6/6/2006, and now it’s Aug 22, or so…..the latest end-of-the-world date.

I wish people would get their dates correct.

I was teaching high school and college in the evenings and attending RICO so I could formally join the Catholic Church, at the ripe old age of 38.

I have since left teaching to go into real estate. (My father passed away in 2003 after a two-year struggle with cancer, and I had to resign to help my mother run the family company.)

But I have never regretted my decision to join the Catholic Church. The faith gave me the strength to make it through some of the most difficult and depressing years of my life.

Ad majoriem dei gloriam. (To the highest glory of God.)

7 years ago, we were searching for colleges for the oldest two who have since graduated from the
Honors college at ASU and the AFROTC program at MI Tech University.

7 years ago, I was still grieving my mother who had gone to heaven after needing complete care for the last 1 1/2 yrs. of her life at our home.

7 years ago, I had no idea that the internet and the wonderful blogs would be such a great tool to
stay informed.

7 years ago I had just changed jobs. I had a crush on the man who is now my husband. We worked in the same library. Like ElCee (#10) my future husband was observing me by having a coworker talk to me and find out if I was already in a relationship. I was wondering why that coworker was so interested in me! LOL

7 years ago this month I was recovering from a horrible kidney infection (like Julie #6)

7 years ago I was a major liberal. I was pretty disgusted with Clinton, though.

7 years ago I was on Prozac.

I was asked to leave the low-paying job for cause in 2000 (not my fault, but I wasn’t cunning enough to document the situation) and I retired from the AF in 2003.

God has blessed me to work in the area in which I asked (prayed) for–writing–and getting well-paid for it.

Pray and have faith; it works.

Friday Meme: Seven Years Ago I Was…

Looking forward to my eighteenth birthday on September 7th
Looking forward to starting my first year of college
Looking forward to making new friends
Probably hunched over a keyboard working on a manuscript Ms….