Sleeping too much

Hi @Former-Member 😊

Youre still up ❣

I'm just stopping in in my way to bed to say hi and thanks for the shout out ... haven't read everything, but got that one ....

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Hiya @Former-Member 😊 .... Hi Everyone .... 😊

Well, everything came together yesterday for a great day .... whew ..... ❣

Sorry, I ran out of batteries between my post to you last night and your post back to me .... but at least it tells me I had 6 hours sleep ....

That'll do .... ❣ .... 😏

My house looks like nuthin' on Earth right now .... but we've got time, and boxes and a garage .... can have an "Abracadabra" moment and clear the decks before lunchtime ..... just wish me luck .... 🌷💜

Picked up your post from yesterday ... the main one I think .... enough to know that you were authentic in your response @Former-Member ..... and being authentic, with integrity, and with faith, is the best way forward imo ..... 💗💕

Yes, some people use "I'm a Christian" to play God .... but nobody is perfect or we'd be the ones managing the Universe ..... so we probably all do that in little ways all the time, and that's okay ... most of it tends to wash backwards and forwards with no really harm done cos our heart's in the right place .... but others deal in it quite "religiously" ..... and I'm with the others - the ones I have read quickly - who said she probably needed to hear it .... if her heart is in the right place it will cause her to do a but of a rethink, even if she's a bit uncomfortable about it in the moment .

Others use "I'm a Christian" to carry the role of trying to be good all the time, and trying to be perfect .... whatever that actually is .... look at the role of the brother-at-home in The Prodigal Son biblical story .... it's actually about both the brothers .... and that was what I was trying to do when I first married .... cos it was all I knew ...

. my in-laws bursting my bubble helped me on to a better understanding of being authentic .... of working to improve what's inside, including being true to your own feelings, not just looking after everybody else's interests .... and letting what is inside just flow out into your outer world .... it sure takes a load off if you're not responsible for being "good" all the time .... authentic is much better.

Just polish up yourself the best way you know how, and let it shine .... 😊

Gotta get up and on ... see y'all a bit later tonight .... if I've got any batteries left in me by then ... lol .... ❣

Have a good day everyone .... 💐💕

@Former-Member

I know you would ❣

Got another thing on today at lunch and across the afternoon .... fittin' in both cultures here .... and yes ... lotsa koufetta 😄

Cleanin' up award pending ..... 😳:face_with_rolling_eyes:😜 ..... with luck ..... thank God for boxes and garages !!

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Hi @Former-Member .... 😘

Hi @BlueBay .... 🌹❤️

Catch y'all later .... 🌷💜

Hi @Former-Member

People mean well but they are often so far off the mark - and they have no idea

Ah - no - I am not going to tell my stories - except maybe one about - um - deleted a whole stack -- yes - The Story of Mary and Martha and how Mary chose the better place etc - and say that Martha sisters have their place or there would never be a banquet.

But who needs a banquet and how often - I would rather people left their fussing and advice and just listened - so I listen - and if there is no one about I will listen to what people said - and think about it - and hope I get heard

After all - we cannot change who people are and how they act toward us - and so a place to start making the world more comfortable is to set up boundaries about how far people can intrude before we tell them that's enough

I deleted so much here - I would love to tell you all of that but it takes up space -

@Former-Member - I think Christians are people doing their best and they are so busy doing that they throw the baby out with the bath water at times - how we have experienced that failure to see the real problem - we would take the baby out of the bath first - so to speak - and dry and dress and feed the baby - and love the baby and teach it and learn from it and the baby can grow up and become whomever they choose

And the bath could stay there forever and who would care?

Here endeth the lesson

Decadian

Hi @Appleblossom

I had a look to see what "touch wood" means and it has a bunch of meanings but one is that pagan beliefs had it that spirits lived in trees and so people would "knock on wood" to let the spirits know they were not forgotten - it's just a strange thing - some superstitions just stay on and on with no one thinking much about what they mean at all

Which is why I have reached this age without looking it up - and I am always looking things up;

Anyway - for just about any person with a thought in their head has trouble leaving a marriage - the first time I left I had a little voice on one shoulder telling me to go and another one on my shoulder telling me to stay - and I left and the reasons I returned to the house were good - I never returned to the marriage

I had made my vows before God and it was really hard for me to break them - but in the end I did not - a separation was enough - and my ex wanted to re-marry - and the decision was not mine - but it took years to finally allow myself to feel okay with it - and now - after 27 years - I am totally over it

Sometimes people want to read things into things - that's okay for them - I am into symbols that do mean things - there are tropes and metaphors in literature that mean things in that context - but in real life - not really - but I would never deny that completely

Mythology is interesting - and how dull life would be without it

Decadian