Phil,
although not of the same circumstances, I've been tired of being tired as
wellat times in my life. It is super duper draining and one gets to a
point of not caring if festered and not keeping
god the focus.I truly believe in the statement "if you are not
evangelistic, you become cannibalistic". That no matter if you are a
church, marriage, family, or self. The idea is, "it is not about me".
Even motivational speakers recognize we will sometimes do much more for
others than we will for ourselves. In that light I'll pray George and his
wife Vivian let go of what Jennifer was or was not, and give their
attention to God and others to take away focus on things they can no
longer do anything about one way or the other. Perhaps that energy can be
pointed in the direction of other parents going through similar, or to
young people struggling. I mean this respectively, but I'm not the one who
came up with it,
Prov 19:13
13 A foolish son is destruction to his father,
And the contentions of a wife are a constant dripping.
NASU
Very draining indeed.
Brad
Brad
on 09:53 AM 7/31/2005, Phil Scovell said:
Great comments on that passage, Brad. I forwarded it to a friend who is
having a very difficult time this morning. George is still going through
a
great deal of stress over his daughter's death. Frankly, it probably
isn't
her death as much as her life that is his problem. Furthermore, his wife
has totally emotionally shut down, that is, she is in some powerful denial
right now. They are taking a 13 week grief course through a church they
have been attending. The last three or four years of his daughter's life
was lived in secrecy and less than pleasing to the Lord. You can imagine
how the devil is trying to beat up on George over all this now. I spent
three hours with him yesterday talking and praying and he had a miraculous
break through. Each day, however, it starts over again. He and his wife
are not on the same page concerning their daughter either and that isn't
helping anything. Anyhow, I trust what you wrote will be of some
encouragement to him but he is getting tired of being tired, if you know
what I mean.
Phil.
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