LOL! Had to laugh when I opened this and saw that you were expressing my thoughts about whining in our current position. I posted a vent on FB this morning about people saying the wrong thing to a new widow. I do try my best to just love them because they are trying to encourage and I should take it as just that.
I do my best those mornings when I am down to go ahead and have a time in my grief but then to turn my eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of my faith. What a good God he is.
Some whining and complaining to God is okay. After all, people in the Bible do it, but what I kept writing was not going to help someone see God because of how I was writing it. It was something I had to take to God.
Now I totally get you with how people have no idea how to talk to people who have lost someone or became disabled. It's like if we are Christian we have the magic pill and we can't show people the downside as if that demeans the power of Jesus. Those people haven't internalized what they read in the Bible. Like my pain from MS was too bad because I didn't pray enough. "Hello? Do you know my relationship with Jesus and have you read the Bible lately?" Usually, I keep that comment to myself and do my best to pray so my anger doesn't get the best of me. But it's hard being the Type A Extravert in the room.
LOL! Had to laugh when I opened this and saw that you were expressing my thoughts about whining in our current position. I posted a vent on FB this morning about people saying the wrong thing to a new widow. I do try my best to just love them because they are trying to encourage and I should take it as just that.
I do my best those mornings when I am down to go ahead and have a time in my grief but then to turn my eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of my faith. What a good God he is.
Be blessed
Some whining and complaining to God is okay. After all, people in the Bible do it, but what I kept writing was not going to help someone see God because of how I was writing it. It was something I had to take to God.
Now I totally get you with how people have no idea how to talk to people who have lost someone or became disabled. It's like if we are Christian we have the magic pill and we can't show people the downside as if that demeans the power of Jesus. Those people haven't internalized what they read in the Bible. Like my pain from MS was too bad because I didn't pray enough. "Hello? Do you know my relationship with Jesus and have you read the Bible lately?" Usually, I keep that comment to myself and do my best to pray so my anger doesn't get the best of me. But it's hard being the Type A Extravert in the room.
Yes! I get it! I'm a Type a person too. I have read that most autoimmune patients are type-A. Be blessed.