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Sucess and Failure |
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Kimerella |
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Oct 16, 06 - 12:50 PM |
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joyfulxpressions@yahoo.com |
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I was not able to get to the message until this morning and was amazed by the topic as I had just had an experience this weekend that is a perfect example of God using a bad experience in our lives for good.
It was a rough time for me, and you will see when you read the email I had sent to a close pen pal, that I have had for years. God does not always ask us to do work we want to do. I will just post a copy of the portion of the email that is relevent and you will see how God has used a rough childhood to be here for others AND how we must remain close to God in order to hear from Him and continue to not be discouraged or distracted.
We had a bit of drama here last night. A friend of Katie's ran away from home. I knew her family life was very chaotic. Both her parents drink and Katie has said that she has been hit before. She emailed Katie and said that her mom had hit her and thrown her against the wall and she was leaving, could she come here. Of course, there are a lot of details, but she ended up sleeping here. Her parents passing out didn't even know she had left. I called her mother first thing this morning. She came and picked her up which was OK with the girl. I encourged her to see the counselor at school today. The mother was thankful we kept her for the night, rather than her possibly taking off somewhere else. She was frightened this morning and I apolgized to her for that...but did not add that she should have known her daughter was gone last night and if she wasn't drunk and beating on her, she wouldn't have left in the first place.
I grew up in an alcholic home (my dad). He was sober the last 30 years of his life. I was never hit. But, there was a lot of yelling and name calling. Just the general feeling off balance all the time, never really knowing what is going to happen or knowing how people are going to react. I really believe that God uses our past to help others. This is the third time in the past probably 10 years that I have had young kids who have come to my house from a parent who was irrationally drunk and they didn't know where to go. Of course, I can only do so much. I can encourage them to get help and I can let them know that God loves them. I think that the most important thing at the time is that I can tell them that I know how they feel, that I have been where they are.
Her name is Katie, too. If you could please say a prayer for her and her family. I don't know if she will seek help or not. The kids know that if they seek help they could be taken from their families and it could be a mess. So, often, they are reluctant to do anything. It is also very tricky for me to make a complaint for a child of this age...and I saw no marks or anything of evidence. The system does not help just to get counseling and help families. So I will do what I can without causing harm to Katie. It will be up to her, the path that is taken.
I, also, have been having a rough time this morning. I think I have been having some post tramatic stress. I am doing better now. I spent a lot of time in prayer. I know that if I didn't do exactly the right things for Katie, I did the best I knew to do at the time. This all tranpired at 9:30-10:30 at night. I was already way past my limitations of patience and pain threshold...I needed to be sleeping, but God gave me the grace to deal with the situation. I, also, listened to music and watched some (very good!) christian TV. So I am doing OK, but I could use a prayer that the enemy won't be able to use my past, that God is using for good, against me.
Thank you so much for listening.
I pray all that come to this site and all our brothers and sisters touched by pain, lonliness and isloation, will find Joy in Christ, today,
Kim |
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