Feeling pretty sucky this week. You know, I hate getting wrapped up in situations where I think I might be able to do some good, and then all that ends up happening is that my suckishness just comes oozing forth, and once again I start suspecting that God must have been sleeping the day I…
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I lead a charmed life. So I’m just minding my own business and checking my email, when I get this alert from a Christian pastor I know. He feels a great calamity is about to occur soon, causing massive fires in New York City that will spread out even to New Jersey and Connecticut, along…
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Tags: best friend, christian, Christians, depression, despair, faith, financial, friends, God, health, judgment, rick warren
There used to be a time in my life when Christmas actually FELT like Christmas. I used to get into it so much that I would get out my Christmas tree and start decorating before even Halloween itself came around, much less the holiday season. The magic in the air was just intoxicating, and I…
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One of the things that really kill any incentive to pull myself together and get my life back on track is that there seems to be nothing worth fighting for. I have no desire to fight for myself, because I’m kinda of a weenie and don’t like myself very much, so there’s no motivation there….
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Tags: church, depression, despair, dream, dreams, failure, fight, girl of my dreams, God, parents, purpose
I only have one thing going for me right now: a steady plan to get myself completely out of debt by July 4th, 2009. After that I’ll have a lot of wiggle room to move around and start searching for another job so I can move out of New York once and for all. That…
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Tags: career, debt, depression, despair, dream, dreams, future, God, job, life, misery
It’s over, I’ve lost. After 23 years of rejection, heartaches, unrequited love, enduring the rude, cold treatment of every women I’ve ever been interested in or in love with, I’m tossing in the towel. My latest failure took away whatever remaining hope I had. Even though we seemed to have so many specific, rare things…
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Prayers Gone Unanswered: Why Movements Like “The Call” Fail
Filed Under: Christianity
There have been various prayer movements in the United States focused on praying for change in our government, the most popular that I know of being TheCall. I’m sure a lot of young Christians now are probably devastated by the election results, at a loss to explain why God would seemingly ignore their heartfelt prayers….
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