personal reflection

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Christ is the only path toward finding God.

But, there are many paths toward finding Christ.

Who am I, then, to say that how another another has found Christ is inadequate or even “wrong”? Who are any of us to demand that we have found the “one true” way of discovering Christ, to the exclusion of all others?

It would only seem to most matter that Christ is found at all. And He will be found, by those who seek Him… whether they are even conscious of their desire or not. In the end, God will know who belongs to Him. That is something that is not left to any of us in this temporal realm.

Seek after Christ, as best you understand Him, if you have found Him. For those who seek Him still, pray for them and for God’s glory without regard to your own sake....

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My dear readers,

I was told that Tim Scales was at a meeting of the school board on Friday night. Everyone that I’ve spoken to said that he was, as always, full of cheer and good humor and… just full of life.

And then, yesterday morning at the Food Lion that he worked at, he collapsed and died. One member of the board tonight said that everyone is still in deep shock about Tim’s passing.

People, I have asked you for prayer recently. I thank you for that. But tonight, I want to ask something else of you…

Whatever you have, whoever you have in your life, whatever blessings God has given you: Please, be thankful for them.

Don’t stop being thankful. And if you’ve never told a person that you are thankful for him or her being in your life… well, what are you waiting for?? DO IT!!

Tonight ...

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And that being: God often does not show us what challenges He has set before us…

…but He always does prepare us to meet those challenges when we get there. Often in ways that we can’t possibly appreciate until we have overcome them.

Am I speaking of my having bipolar disorder and how I am now writing about it on this blog? Somewhat, yes. But in looking back over my life, I now see that there have been many such challenges.

Would I have allowed myself to be confronted with them, had I known of them in advance?

In all honestly… maybe not. I’m not sure that I would have. I know that I wouldn’t have endured the bipolar had I know what it would cost me.

I might write about this also: how in retrospect I see that God was moving me, was guiding my path until I ...

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Edit 5:12 p.m. EST: I have been asked to remove this post. And, I will honor this request.
EDIT 5:22 p.m. EST 11/18/2010: I am not going to repost the original text that was here. But increasingly, I am being led to post something about what I have gone through. Maybe – just maybe – God might use it to spare others the grief that I have gone through and that I have put too many other people through.In my last post (which really was meant to be farewell for now) I publicly disclosed that I have suffered from depression for many years. I also have had to struggle with bipolar. And I do understand that I am likely giving up a lot of great potential in coming forward with that.Well, whether I want it or not, it is a part of me. It is part of my identity, which ...

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