Comments on: Stuff I’ve learned (Raquel) http://sharppointythings.blogpeoria.com/2009/07/02/stuff-ive-learned-raquel/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:36:28 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Barb http://sharppointythings.blogpeoria.com/2009/07/02/stuff-ive-learned-raquel/comment-page-1/#comment-52227 Barb Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:14:19 +0000 http://sharppointythings.blogpeoria.com/2009/07/02/stuff-ive-learned-raquel/#comment-52227 It's great to see what God is teaching you! However, I take issue with something you said in point 4. I am NOT disputing the point. God really does know better than you or I do. However, when you said that you would have failed miserably, etc had your plans for being married at eighteen and being the world’s greatest farmwife/homemaker/homeschool-mom - well...that may or may not be true. We have no way of knowing. In fact, you may have turned out to be the greatest. But, a scripture shows us again and again (Example: David, Moses, etc, etc), God doesn't always choose the most obvious person. Natural talent has nothing to with His plans for us. To say you would have failed miserably is rationalizing your present state of singleness and trying to conform God's ways to our logical way of thinking. You're learning some pretty deep things here that people three times your(chronological and spiritual) age have yet to ever contemplate. Know you'll have to revisit these lessons over and over again, whether single, married, parent, childless - not because you didn't learn them the first time, but because they need to be planted more deeply in your heart. XXOO It’s great to see what God is teaching you! However, I take issue with something you said in point 4. I am NOT disputing the point. God really does know better than you or I do. However, when you said that you would have failed miserably, etc had your plans for being married at eighteen and being the world’s greatest farmwife/homemaker/homeschool-mom – well…that may or may not be true. We have no way of knowing. In fact, you may have turned out to be the greatest. But, a scripture shows us again and again (Example: David, Moses, etc, etc), God doesn’t always choose the most obvious person. Natural talent has nothing to with His plans for us. To say you would have failed miserably is rationalizing your present state of singleness and trying to conform God’s ways to our logical way of thinking.

You’re learning some pretty deep things here that people three times your(chronological and spiritual) age have yet to ever contemplate. Know you’ll have to revisit these lessons over and over again, whether single, married, parent, childless – not because you didn’t learn them the first time, but because they need to be planted more deeply in your heart.

XXOO

]]> By: A Road Less Travelled » Peace: An addendum to Stuff I’ve Learned (Raquel) http://sharppointythings.blogpeoria.com/2009/07/02/stuff-ive-learned-raquel/comment-page-1/#comment-52212 A Road Less Travelled » Peace: An addendum to Stuff I’ve Learned (Raquel) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:51:19 +0000 http://sharppointythings.blogpeoria.com/2009/07/02/stuff-ive-learned-raquel/#comment-52212 [...] don’t feel like doing this but I’m peaceful about it’. Refer back to point two of Stuff I’ve Learned. Peace shouldn’t sound like an emotion to us, but it does. I don’t mean ‘I feel [...] [...] don’t feel like doing this but I’m peaceful about it’. Refer back to point two of Stuff I’ve Learned. Peace shouldn’t sound like an emotion to us, but it does. I don’t mean ‘I feel [...]

]]> By: Adiel http://sharppointythings.blogpeoria.com/2009/07/02/stuff-ive-learned-raquel/comment-page-1/#comment-51953 Adiel Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:16:16 +0000 http://sharppointythings.blogpeoria.com/2009/07/02/stuff-ive-learned-raquel/#comment-51953 Thanks for writing out these "obvious" thoughts, Raquel. I needed to be reminded of these things- especially the first one. It's so great to see what God has been doing in your life. I'm looking forward to perhaps reading another list like this in a few years. What other obvious things will you have relearned by then? Oh, and another obvious truth that I apparently needed ingrained in me is no matter how full your hands are, never put a cake on the floor where a child can step on it. :) Thanks for writing out these “obvious” thoughts, Raquel. I needed to be reminded of these things- especially the first one. It’s so great to see what God has been doing in your life. I’m looking forward to perhaps reading another list like this in a few years. What other obvious things will you have relearned by then?

Oh, and another obvious truth that I apparently needed ingrained in me is no matter how full your hands are, never put a cake on the floor where a child can step on it. :)

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