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It's a few more hours away, but I would like to start the new year off with this.

[b][c=BF0000]I have been angry many times over and said horrible things. Sometimes baited and provoked and sometimes not. I am not apologizing since we all know I'll probably say horrible things again. We have this whole 'right vs left' thing going on now. There's not much we can do about it. It's here. A nation divided between two types of people and both groups cannot begin to wrap their minds around how the other group thinks. We are baffled and confused by each other. We are frustrated and aggravated by each other. I have found myself wishing the war would just hurry up and start, so I could start stringing ears!
All I can say, is that I hope by the end of this year we will see one another as Americans and not enemies. There is no need to remind me of the outrageous things I've said about my political opposites. I am quite aware. I am not apologizing for my paleoconservative beliefs, but I will try harder to be more civil. I only hope and pray that there will be peace when the tides turn this year. Those of you that I have referred to as "maggots" and "vermin" are every bit as entitled to your beliefs as I am. That's a definite 'no brainer'. I've always known that. I hate how you think, and you hate how I think, but I know we would be better off if we could successfully strive toward national unity. So even though I am a John Birch style conservative, I pray for the collective success and progress of our great nation. If the division we have now continues, there is no way this nation will survive, much less, succeed. [/c][/b]
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I know we won't be perfect, but I feel the whole idea is to learn from mistakes we all have and try not to repeat them. I think it would help, if when we feel ourselves getting angry, just step away, think about it, cool off, then come back. Words that hurt, can't be taken back, and you're right about why we get upset, but if we can think before we act, even when hurt, hopefully, we won't want to retaliate.
Oberon1 · 61-69, M
@LadyGrace Our warfare is spiritual not carnal.
@Oberon1 The spirit fights the flesh, every day.
Oberon1 · 61-69, M
@LadyGrace I know you are very familiar with these verses. I shamefully saw them as a "loop hole" for many years. They are, like all the verses in the bible, worthy of deep and prayerful study. The depraved nature of us all is an intense and profound thing to consider.
[i]14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.



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@Oberon1 Yep. Very familiar. Paul had a difficult time, at times, fighting the flesh. Basically he's saying, "I try to do [i]good[/i], but then find myself doing just the opposite!" He's telling us he knows what it is to constantly battle the flesh. We really have to be on our spiritual guard.

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