What's your biggest struggle at the moment?

You have NO idea! lol

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I feel your pain

How many hours of night do you have at the moment?

I can't decide whether to have meat pizza
or veggie pizza. Coke or diet rite?

I am rolling! :)

Ditch anything diet. And meat with veggies on your pizza. There problem solved.:0)

Yeah, no kidding. We are going to go into burnout on this subject soon.

I am so sorry. What does FTD mean?

My socks are slightly different colors.

Sounds petty I know, but right now that's tops.

Agreed on ditching anything 'diet'
Are you ordering your pizza or is it one of them frozen ones?

I usually wear non matching socks on purpose

I think I probz have a few - a bit of an identity crisis now my kids are nearly all grown and gone - my eldest daughter left home a month or so ago so i have been hit with bedroom tax so a bit worried about being able to pay that or i end up homeless or somewhere new which i am not ready for - the whole move and everything - not knowing who i am now that my children are adults - except the last one who is 15 and growing up fast - have spent all my adult life as a mum and so it's very strange and a bit difficult. The future I guess.


I need to sort ME out now I guess - not sure how, but no big struggles or probz I guess.


xx

Nearing 50 and completely starting over, changing careers. Leaving a secure position to regain my sanity and reconnect with God after 23 years of full-time church ministry. After years of serving with everything you have, realizing you're in a completely different place than the rest of your team and it's laborious, absurd, and makes no sense anymore. The only thing I'm certain of is the Gospel of Jesus Christ and God's presence and work in my life. At a point where I've had it with other people for the most part, not wanting to hate people but finding myself with little patience anymore - which is out of character for me - so just needing some separation for a while.

Married almost 27 years, sons are grown and wonderful human beings. Whole new scene for me and I feels great. No, I didn't buy a red sports car.

Yes, my children too are growing up fast. I took care of an elderly relative & they passed this year. I feel rather lost. And after seeing death now, my view on life has changed.

I am rather depressed & don't know where to go. I have a mere part time work, that I like the work, dislike the management & have not gotten any raises in 4 years. I need to look for other work.

Life & work balance is difficult to achieve. Most work sucks, so one simply placates themselves with the biggest pay possible.

Fixing To Die

Ok seriously don't say that!!!
EVERYTHING is reversable

My biggest struggle at the moment is to just be at peace with myself.

Ya ya yah... I know, I've got it better than most. But all my other problems are materialistic, and not as important to me.

so what do you think/feel is standing in your way of being at peace with yourself?

Forgiveness.

I'm having a hard time forgiving myself for putting myself in certain situations.

I'm having a hard time forgiving others for their actions towards me.

It's hard. Once I get to that point where I start to move on and forgive I get thrown right back into feeling it all over again and it feels like salt in a wound.

I understand in the sense that I find it hard to let go of the past... I don't find it necessarily hard to forgive people per se, but I keep replaying things that happened in the past and I dwell on them, almost like an obsession, and I have to keep reminding myself to snap out of it and bring myself back to the present moment. I suppose I can relate to you when you say you have a hard time forgiving yourself for putting yourself in certain situations... I still carry a lot of guilt for things I have done that have hurt others, and mostly things that have harmed me personally... that's the tough part. What I find helps is reminding myself that I have changed because of these mistakes, that I have learned a lot from them and I became a better person because of that.
You'd be surprised at how much peace you would feel once you can actually forgive someone...when you do it it's really for you. Now if only we can manage not to be too hard on ourselves....
*Sigh*

Remaining patient while a major life decision is in stasis and not in my control! lol

I'm trying to forgive. Mostly myself, the rest will come with time I am sure. I was in an emotionally abusive relationship that eventually turned violent. It's something I never imagined I would ever be in. I thought I was smarter than that. I just get stuck up in my head a lot.

so who's decision is it if not yours?

Hey good point! It's my decision...

Same here.

I wait for God patiently to guide me through the tribulation and suffering of this life.

Thus the reason why I mentioned in a reply earlier in this post how I had to deal with "legal issues" in the past... I was in an abusive relationship for a looong time and it turned violent to a point where I had to call the cops on him once. Of course, that entailed court dates and custody issues and calls from child protective services and all that crap no one wants to deal with (unless you feel your life is in danger then please don't hesitate).... needless to say it's not fun but I eventually forgave him, mostly for me

If it's something that's going to majorly alter your life then it better be!

Yeah, don't give up. Try alternative health care or start googling your problem. Doctors give up and tell a person to go home and die when the doc doesn't know what else to do. But that doesn't mean there aren't things a person can do. You have to hit another path.