Have you ever had God smack you in the Face? I just did.

but the first rule of giving is EXPECT NOTHING BACK, that is the only rule for getting some, at least feel good with yourself.

Thank you all sooo much for your uplifting responses to this thread. I even received offers of monetary help. I wasn't able to send a reply because I am not a paying account. So for those that offered help or want to, My In-Laws just came through for us a few minutes ago. But if my story has moved you to want to help. Please, go to a local soup kitchen or homeless shelter in your area and donate whatever you are moved to. Volunteer your time, give the shelter some cash, or even drop off some extra food. They have a much greater need then I. For those that offered to send me money, please know how grateful I am for the offer, and also know that you truly do "Dance with Angels". May the Lord bless you and keep you, always.

Thanks for sharing your story, OP. I know I'm not the only one who's been through a rough time lately. I keep telling myself maybe it's because we are so close to the Rapture (those of you who don't believe can shush...this is MY story) and God doesn't want us to leave a lot of stuff behind for the left-behinders.

Unless they change the laws it takes 7 years for someone who disappears to be declared legally dead, so just when they think they're finally gonna get our stuff, we're coming back...does God have a sense of humor or what?

Love & Blessings to you and your family.....

You one of the real ones, OP


Peace to you & yours.

I never thought of that! Thank you for that, I needed the laugh. And for what it's worth I agree with you. Keep looking up.

Well thank you! May God bless and keep you.

P.S. I would hate to think I was Unreal, how would I explain that to my kids.

from me and my whole family.

WOW somebody is more miserable than me,..proof that God exists.

yes I know what you are talking about exactly. Happens to me often when I am feeling sorry for myself or just being negative in general. There has been a lot of syncronicity happening to me recently,and I just know it is not coincidence.

Not proof that God exists, just a reminder to be thankful for what we do HAVE, instead of always complaining about what we don't. If you want proof that God exists... look at a tree, then see if you can make one.

OP - love your story! But I love where your heart is at even more.

Reading through the thread reminds me of a saying whose source I've lost long ago: "God will not entrust His people to you unless you've first entrusted yourself to Him."

The synchronicity you are feeling lately is happening to us all. Remember, there are no such things as coincidences, when you have an all powerful God.

great story.

well done.

God allows that for YOU to learn. For YOU to learn love, humility, and for YOU to appreciate YOUR life given to you by God.

Those people WILL be in a better place soon because they go through so much more pain, suffering, and stress than you can even imagine. I believe God reincarnates our souls, these souls learn humility very quickly in life, so when they come back, they have new lessons to learn.

Also, don't blame God. Blame the world, blame man for putting materialism before God. We have the resources to help EVERY single dying person, but we spend money on war and sex.

Please understand. God allows this because life is a learning experience, just like OP learned from his experience.

I'll chime in, too, if I may...

Epicurus was a Stoic, and Stoicism sees and deals with evil quite differently from other philosophies. And naturually, Epicurus will see God through the lens of his Stoicism.

Gnostics see God through the lens of their Gnosticism.

Christians see God through the lens of their Christianity, that is, through Jesus.

All three (Stoicism, Gnosticism, and Christianity) deal with "the problem of evil" quite differently. I happen to prefer the Christian approach, which EasyD articulated quite well.

Exactly, good post Life and Love. God is subjective, yet very real inside all of us.

There is no right way to view God, but there is a right way to learn. Through love, humility, and sacrifice.

Either way, these lessons ultimately lead an individual to understand what God is, through their personal experiences...we can all agree that love is universal...so if God=Love, then He is universal.

It's all how you view things....all how you LEARN from things. If you're willing to learn, God WILL show Himself to you.

You shoulda offered him a place to stay.

You think life was supposed to be easy? Name one critter, except maybe some of us and our pets, that have an easy life. If all we did was play around in La La Land, that God could grant.....what would be the point???

Your here to learn and grow..............

Yeas, as I'm struggling to plan for my retirement, every day I still consider myself extremely lucky to be where I am.

God spelled it all out in the Bible. It is all there, in black, white and red for all to see. For anyone to say what you just said proves you have not been seeking God with all your heart. If at all. That is very sad!!

Satan seeks us
We must seek God
HUGE difference there.

If you get any more blessed, OP, you're going to be homeless and your wife is going have to work the street.

I feel the need to make a correction. God is always seeking us. "Behold I stand at the door and knock..." comes to mind. Jesus said that He came "to seek and save the lost."

If we aren't aware of His doing so, then it's because our own hearts are closed. It's not because God is not seeking us.



Last Edited by Life and Love on 10/12/2011 09:45 PM

Awesome reminder to us all how good we actually have it. We MUST stop and count the blessings we are given, daily..instead, most of us just see the bad things and poor me..woe is me...Think about how much worse it would be if God were not in your life.

My family recently went on a mission trip to Honduras. I could not go :( but they told me and showed pics of one of the places they went..the city dump..people of all ages live there..if you do not have a birth certificate, you cannot even get a job sweeping floors...the only way to acquire a bc is to be born in a hospital..only those who can afford it are allowed that luxury so...the dump is the fate of those who have no record of birth...they noticed little kids wearing cut off face masks...they were cut off below the nose. My family assumed it was because they were ashamed to be so poor and wanted to hide their identities.

NO...they saturate the face mask in super glue so that they inhale it all day and it keeps the hunger at bay...little grade school children were doing this.




little girls 6, 7, 8, were wearing makeup and selling their bodies to anyone for money...the mission people had to be really careful when being hugged by children and to make it plain that they did not want that. The sad part is, obviously Americans/tourists, etc do take the children up on that or they would not have been so confident in approaching them.
When they learned the guys were not after anything like that, they would not pursue them further.

So, yes, I think we can all take a look at our lives and see how good we have it..that our children are not living in dumps, scrounging for food, bottles etc or selling their bodies to survive...or sniffing glue all day to keep the hunger pains away!!!!!

True...good point..I just meant that people should realize how actively the evil one pursues us and makes his presence known...whereas people tend to think God does not exist because they do not hear Him or see Him...God gives us feedom to choose. If you cannot find God in your life, it is because you did not want Him there.

According to the Bible God's Children can just pray to him and he will meet our every need... He says not to worry just trust and cast our burdens on Him ... Ask and you shall recieve , seek and you will find ... Ask Jesus anythin in his name and he will do it ...

Just try it ... then reality hits and you get dissappointed at the Promises God made to you that failed ... Why? WTF ... What kind of father does this to his children?

That has not been my experience, Friend.

Perhaps you can tell us of a promise God made to you that He did not fulfill?

Yes, ask anything in Jesus' name and if it be GOD's WILL, He will do it..if you are asking for the wrong reasons, or asking the wrong things, or asking for something that will lead you to the wrong path, you are not going to get it...also, God does answer prayers...sometimes not exactly the way you want them to be answered..but, ALWAYS for the best.