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Wednesday, February 09, 2005 Back AgainHi again, I've been off the blog for awhile - life has it's trials at times.Sorry Geoff that I missed you at B.Heights, but you met my fantastic son Jonathan & his wife Dianna. He passed your greetings on to me. Maybe we can catch up at Easter or at the Franklin Graham Festival - I think we will be at pretty much all the meetings. Tim Winton - Geoff, I've read one book and once I got used to the way he wrote I loved it. I could feel those cut feet, weepy eyes and ulcerated legs! Re Prayer Problem - There are many different factors to look at. Just one would be why this young person has had a relapse into her depressive state. Did she stop her medication? Has she had wrong advise? Did some one take advantage of her vulnerable state? Just because a person has a relapse does not mean that God is not listening and caring. When speaking with a person such as the mother of the girl, one has to be extremly sensitive in their approach. The mother feels that God has not listened, but we can assure that God has indeed listened and that He truly knows what she is experiencing. He wants her to rely wholly on Him, to draw her strength from Him. He wants to be with her through not only the highlights, but the down times too. Just because we are His child does not mean that bad things will not happen to us. We have had suicides on both sides of our families, and we struggled too with our 'faith' at the time. So many questions go unanswered, but we just have to hang on to God. He knows what we are experiencing. One thing that I would not say to the mother is that 'God is in control' - although we know that, she is not in the position to accept it. Just the same as the Tsunami victims are not in the emotional, spiritual or physical condition to cope with hearing a 'glib' sentance. Encourage the mother to seek God's comfort even more than before. In each situation we can find something in which to give God the glory no matter how hard it may be. Encourage her to read the Psalms, especially Ps 13. At the beginning David speaks of God hiding His face from him and yet in vs 6 he speaks of God being good to him. The whole Ps seems to be a discrepancy. But in actual fact the chapter simply shows the differences between David's feelings and his beliefs. Even though David felt that God had hidden His face he believed that God was being good to him. Encourage the mother not to rely on her feelings but hang on to what she believes. A difficult task - especially for a mother, but one that will give her comfort. There, I've raved on too long again. Don't know whether this is any help at all. God Bless # posted by shellymac @ 9:23 pm 0 comments
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