Rhonda,

I love your honest heart.  God does too.


Vicki

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From: "Rhonda Partain" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: Pray Without Ceasing


>I think some see God as far off, unapproachable, or if one can approach Him
> it has to bedone in a certain way. Maybe, some just don't really truly
> believe God loves them. I feel loved, and so I want to share what I feel,
> what I think, what I experience with God because I love Him in return. He
> knows all my imperfections, every mistake I've made, and yet, He loves me,
> sees value in me; isn't that what we all long for? Really long for, to be
> loved in spite of our imperfections, to be found worth loving. I think 
> we've
> made prayer harder than it should be, I tell God how I feel, I'm angry, 
> I'm
> hurt,  and He helps me.
> I used to go to a church where if you ever showed you were sad, admitted 
> you
> were hurting, or having problems with your marriage or children, job, or
> friends, the stock answer was :"well, you must not be trusting God, if you
> were being the kind of wife you should be, then......" and so it went, the
> place was full of hurting people who stood to sing God's praise and then
> went home to cry in secret. I know, that's what I did.
>
> Rhonda
>