How do we get through?
How do we keep getting back up, to be knocked down again harder?
What happens when life throws you a blow so hard you can't recover?
How can we have faith in God, when we are so pissed at Him?
What happens when we are so tired of hurting? When there are no more fake happy faces to put on?
What happens when we can't see through our own pain?
What then?
Good questions Redd.The only answers that I have to any of them is that I just keep struggling through each day.I do catch myself asking "what now" quite often.I never come up with an answer,but somehow I make it another day. :)
Redd,
I would like to know what prompted this post?... can I help?.....
but to answer your question... without know the specifics... you get back up.. you handle your business... for me in my worst situations... I found strength that I didnt know I had... there was never an option really of quitting giving up.... I wanted to for a little while but I couldnt... not in my nature....
so unless you are talking the ultimate choice.... then what else can we do at the end of the day ... or the beginning of the day if you will.... you get up and go on... make the best decisions we can with what we got and move on... period... but in doing that we lean on our friends and family.. gathering strength and hope. and getting love and support from them.... when we give love we put little deposits in an account ..and when we get love we make a withdrawl... and dear redd if somehting is going on.. maybe you need to make a withdrawl of that account that you are always making depositis in... huh?..
May God bless you this day .. this moment..
love..
Teresa
I would like to know what prompted this post?... can I help?.....
but to answer your question... without know the specifics... you get back up.. you handle your business... for me in my worst situations... I found strength that I didnt know I had... there was never an option really of quitting giving up.... I wanted to for a little while but I couldnt... not in my nature....
so unless you are talking the ultimate choice.... then what else can we do at the end of the day ... or the beginning of the day if you will.... you get up and go on... make the best decisions we can with what we got and move on... period... but in doing that we lean on our friends and family.. gathering strength and hope. and getting love and support from them.... when we give love we put little deposits in an account ..and when we get love we make a withdrawl... and dear redd if somehting is going on.. maybe you need to make a withdrawl of that account that you are always making depositis in... huh?..
May God bless you this day .. this moment..
love..
Teresa
Hi,
How do we get through?........One Day At A Time
How do we keep getting back up, to be knocked down again harder?.......I'd say try and identify what you didn't do to keep from picking up, and change it.
Insanity = doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
What happens when life throws you a blow so hard you can't recover?...Can't = unwilling to try, face to face support can help with those thoughts.
How can we have faith in God, when we are so pissed at Him?....It's ok to feel pissed, just like being pissed off for example at my mom, doesn't mean I don't still love her. Pray and remember He does love you.
These aren't solid answers I know, just suggestions I hope you'll think about.
Life isn't easy, but it's not impossible. Dealing with our anger, hurt and fears instead of running from them or stewing over them is what will get you through.
The willingness to do so is all thats needed, I truely hope you can pickyourself up from whatever your troubles are, in fact I know you can, it's you that has to realize it can be done. I'll be praying for you.
If nobody said to you today "I love you", I do.
Take care............Bob
How do we get through?........One Day At A Time
How do we keep getting back up, to be knocked down again harder?.......I'd say try and identify what you didn't do to keep from picking up, and change it.
Insanity = doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
What happens when life throws you a blow so hard you can't recover?...Can't = unwilling to try, face to face support can help with those thoughts.
How can we have faith in God, when we are so pissed at Him?....It's ok to feel pissed, just like being pissed off for example at my mom, doesn't mean I don't still love her. Pray and remember He does love you.
These aren't solid answers I know, just suggestions I hope you'll think about.
Life isn't easy, but it's not impossible. Dealing with our anger, hurt and fears instead of running from them or stewing over them is what will get you through.
The willingness to do so is all thats needed, I truely hope you can pickyourself up from whatever your troubles are, in fact I know you can, it's you that has to realize it can be done. I'll be praying for you.
If nobody said to you today "I love you", I do.
Take care............Bob
Hi Redd,
I can feel your pain in this post and I'm so sorry for whatever you are going through right now. I have had all these feelings many times. Probably everyone has. Somehow though we just get through it. I think even though we are pissed at God it doesn't matter. He's still our strength when we are at our weakest. He lifts us up again and again no matter what we think or feel.
Love,
Liz
I can feel your pain in this post and I'm so sorry for whatever you are going through right now. I have had all these feelings many times. Probably everyone has. Somehow though we just get through it. I think even though we are pissed at God it doesn't matter. He's still our strength when we are at our weakest. He lifts us up again and again no matter what we think or feel.
Love,
Liz
Dear Redd,I dont know what is going on.I only know I want to try & make it better.I hope all is ok with Chance.Please if you need me get ahold of me.Ill be off line for about 1 hr,maybe less.Please it seems like alot of us are worried & care.Cant we please try & help.......mj
Hi Redd,
I know that a lot of what you wrote comes from an addicts point of view.....but I have to wonder about the last line....
What happens when we can't see through our own pain........
I have to wonder with all that you have been through and all the loss, if you have given yourself enough time to grieve...
Please take care of you and try to move forward.....No ones life is easy and no day is ever perfect but life is good despite the sorrow, mostly because you are in it......
Love,
Tina
I know that a lot of what you wrote comes from an addicts point of view.....but I have to wonder about the last line....
What happens when we can't see through our own pain........
I have to wonder with all that you have been through and all the loss, if you have given yourself enough time to grieve...
Please take care of you and try to move forward.....No ones life is easy and no day is ever perfect but life is good despite the sorrow, mostly because you are in it......
Love,
Tina
redd, maybe the words of Jesus from the cross, who sufferred humiliation, physical brutality of the rankest sort, emotional torture, rejection, taunting, and mockery by those who were his followers, all for our sake, will help today as we remember that He cried out in the presence of his mother, using the words of the psalms --
"My God, My God, why have you forsaken me ?"
but his suffering and torture was necessary, as we know.
and now we give thanks for his endurance.
when we are able to join our sufferings with his, and try to understand how our sufferings can be an offerrings for ourselves and for those worse off than us, if we allow them to be, well -- there's comfort in it and a purpose.
Redd, I hear you. I can relate to everything you said....believe me.
Someone here told me to "be still..." and it will pass. And it does. Whatever pain you are going through is going to be over. And another blow might come along, but remember, we are new to dealing with reality?? We did it numb for so long. Now we get to feel it all to full impact. This is life...we did it with an anestetic.
Whatever you are going through, will pass. It hurts like hell. But, it will pass and nothing, nothing is worth using over. (That, is what they tell me...so I am passing that one on...I still beg to differ on that one myself, but I do what is suggested to stay clean).
I hope you are okay. And no matter what, don't use, and this storm soon shall pass.
Kerry
Someone here told me to "be still..." and it will pass. And it does. Whatever pain you are going through is going to be over. And another blow might come along, but remember, we are new to dealing with reality?? We did it numb for so long. Now we get to feel it all to full impact. This is life...we did it with an anestetic.
Whatever you are going through, will pass. It hurts like hell. But, it will pass and nothing, nothing is worth using over. (That, is what they tell me...so I am passing that one on...I still beg to differ on that one myself, but I do what is suggested to stay clean).
I hope you are okay. And no matter what, don't use, and this storm soon shall pass.
Kerry
WHY ARE YOU MAD AT GOD? HE IS HERE TO HELP US WHEN WE WANT IT!!! IF YOU LEAN ON HIM FOR EVERYTHING HE WILL PICK YOU UP FROM ALL OF YOUR FALLS.. THAT IS A FACT!!!!!!!!! HE LOVES US NO MATTER WHAT. PLEASE DONT FORGET THAT. IF YOU TURN YOUR HEAD AWAY FROM HIM THEN HE WILL TURN HIS. PRAY-----PRAY--------PRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHRISTY
Christy..darlin, turn off your caps..it's like your yelling. lol
Redd..what happend today? Or is it just one of those days.....
I have no answers except that every day is a clean slate for me. What didn't work today will probably work tomorrow. And it never looks as bad the next morning (Bobism).
Please share...
Love
Lisa
Redd..what happend today? Or is it just one of those days.....
I have no answers except that every day is a clean slate for me. What didn't work today will probably work tomorrow. And it never looks as bad the next morning (Bobism).
Please share...
Love
Lisa
Yeah Redd, share, tell us what's getting to you. For me, there is just no alternative but to keep going through the hard times. I look at my kids......and I know God. Love you, Kat
Redd,
I know what you mean but don't know what's going on in your life. If there's anything I can do, please don't hesitate.
ke_gina@hotmail.com
Love, Gina
I know what you mean but don't know what's going on in your life. If there's anything I can do, please don't hesitate.
ke_gina@hotmail.com
Love, Gina
Redd-It is perfectly o.k. to get pissed at God and everyone else.Its part of the healing process.I had to own up to my anger and get honest before I could ever start healing.In fact, my therapist had me go completely postal on God in her office.I was screaming F*** You and every incediary thing I could at him.Guess what? I wasnt struck dead like my white trash Baptist relatives had promised.LOL....We get angry that this happened to us.The anger should be directed against this disease,It still pisses me off.
You will work through it.Detoxing makes every emotion amplified.It will not stay like that.I didnt like the fact I was even feeling again,I had been numb for a long time.Hang in there,bro.Its going to get different before it gets better.
You will work through it.Detoxing makes every emotion amplified.It will not stay like that.I didnt like the fact I was even feeling again,I had been numb for a long time.Hang in there,bro.Its going to get different before it gets better.
C'mon Redd, get you butt back here.. and I have noticed you not being around here lately. Give it time redd, give it time. These wounds WILL heal..
Best Regards,
Tom
Best Regards,
Tom
all the doors that lead inward to the sacred peace of the Most High are doors outwards--out of self, out of smallness, out of wrong.
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love is the key to the door of life.
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loving God -
i sense that Your ways are simple, but not necessarily easy.
i am learning that Your ways are in a different direction than my way.
for too long I have been holding onto meaningless images of:
my life,
my love,
my happiness,
my pain,
my career,
my things,
my spiritual journey,
my self.
i place my half thought out ideas and imperfections,
my hopes and my dreams in Your hands.
lift me to a higher place.
fill me with Your truth and teach me to follow You.
i am willing to be as You would have me be.
thank You, God.
amen
________
love is the key to the door of life.
________
loving God -
i sense that Your ways are simple, but not necessarily easy.
i am learning that Your ways are in a different direction than my way.
for too long I have been holding onto meaningless images of:
my life,
my love,
my happiness,
my pain,
my career,
my things,
my spiritual journey,
my self.
i place my half thought out ideas and imperfections,
my hopes and my dreams in Your hands.
lift me to a higher place.
fill me with Your truth and teach me to follow You.
i am willing to be as You would have me be.
thank You, God.
amen
redd
hug
praying for your comfort,
adrienne
hug
praying for your comfort,
adrienne
