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Thank you Chiquitina to have reminded me that time...

2008-01-05T20:59:00.000+01:00

Thank you Chiquitina to have reminded me that time so particular in the India, with your memory so faithful to the facts. And it is only up to now that I can have a better idea of what meant that adventure for you; thank you for your effort to accompany because like you know, the meaning of that experience for me it was different. Thank you because like you can imagine, alone I had not gone. I went, as you well refer it, only for your cause but I met with my cause. Starting from that memorable staying, the little bit that I had accumulated of personal religiosity, has left becoming the most splendid spirituality that doesn't stop of growing. One day you will be able to understand it. I comment your post because certainly you have presented with a lot of clarity, your devotion and your loyalty to that Supreme Being that we all yearn and we wanted to reach. My desire to make emphasis overalls in the way so elegant as you expose the great formula, the one that in words of that sublime Guru, it would be summarized this way: "It is the heart the one that reaches the goal." That "your" Lord, follows you filling of blessings until you get that light that you look for in the center of your own heart. In that point all duality disappears and only remains The One without second, only remains God. (Please, tell Doug, I speak a very poor English).

Sis.Julie, as I mentioned to you apart, it's funny...

2007-12-29T09:14:00.000+01:00

Sis.Julie, as I mentioned to you apart, it's funny that you and Doug thought about dressing for church from my post. I like how you put that we shouldn't shame the Lord in how we dress :)

With pleasure Sis.Amy - I like to share about the Lord and the places He has taken me.

Saved Sinner - you know, what was difficult was "going" - I was scared and didn't know what to expect, so taking that first step of faith was what was difficult, but once I took it I realized that God was on the other side too, that I wasn't alone, and I had a great time. Yes, I had a few days that were very hard and painful even, but God doesn't ask us to do things He doesn't think we would be able to handle. Thanks for your comment!

The Lord bless you all!

I'm so glad you got the answers to prayer you need...

2007-12-27T13:33:00.000+01:00

I'm so glad you got the answers to prayer you needed during what must have been a difficult time.

Jimena, this was such a heart warming post! Thank ...

2007-12-15T07:28:00.000+01:00

Jimena, this was such a heart warming post! Thank you for sharing your India experiance!!

Lots of hugs!!

Amy

Its interesting that you posted this. Kristina an...

2007-12-12T18:58:00.000+01:00

Its interesting that you posted this. Kristina and I were in North Carolina taking care of my sister-in-law last week and we took enough clothes for staying till Saturday. So we weren't planning to go to church with her on Sunday since we figured we would be home by then. Well...the Lord had other plans. We ended up staying till Tuesday (yesterday) and therefore had nothing "dressy" for Sunday services. It really bothered Kristina and I. We have been taught since getting saved that you wear dressy clothes on Sundays. We had a denim skirt and a khaki skirt with some casual tops to go with them. We also had only casual shoes. We weren't comfortable with wearing these to Sunday services. We always try to represent our Lord, our church and my husband as our pastor well. We never want to bring reproach to any of them.

We had resolved to the fact that we were just going to wear the best of what we had with us to church. But the Lord knew our hearts and how it saddened us and He provided us with Sunday outfits for church. My sister-in-law took us shopping to get clothes.

We would have still gone to church even if we hadn't gotten anything new or dressy for church....because it is more important to go than to worry about what you are wearing...as long as it doesn't shame the Lord. Although I know many who won't go to church if they don't have anything proper to wear. How sad!!

I do find pleasure in finding errors in your posts...

2007-12-11T21:51:00.000+01:00

I do find pleasure in finding errors in your posts because your linguistic skills are phenominal. In many respects, better than this native English speaker. :)

This one was too good to ignore. I'm actually not sure if it was a "slip of the tongue" or a "Freudian slip." Regardless, I loved it.

So tell me, what is your opinion of Oreos and are they available there?

Haha... yes yes, you see... I was afraid people ha...

2007-12-11T19:30:00.000+01:00

Haha... yes yes, you see... I was afraid people had these notifications because I post my posts first to make it easy to proof-read for such mistakes... man and what a mistake... and you just had to go ahead and trumpet it didn't you... hey, do you want to be my editor as you are so good with words? Why is it so easy to talk to you as if you were indeed a little brother?

Yes, our hearts are important, and so are our actions... I think this can challenge many people... people that fill their lives with good actions to please men and God, and forget where their hearts really are... people that want to keep following the Lord with all their hearts as well, because the closer we get to the Lord the more He will purify us which usually means we will have to change habits, actions and so on... be obedient... but yes, the heart.

Thanks for your comment. Hope you enjoyed your lunch... you still eat Oreos... just had to say that.

God bless you.

Jimena, I just began my lunch break at work, and a...

2007-12-11T19:01:00.000+01:00

Jimena, I just began my lunch break at work, and as I was eating my yogurt and Oreo cookies (I know, that sounds hypocrital!) I was notified of your post. You're so on target. Thank you for sharing this - and your Dora robe! :)

I raised the question while in Sunday school about why we dress up for church. What is our real motive? Too often we are looking to fit in, look good, show what we can afford, cover our ugly, weathered, wrinkled, and sagging bodies, or make us feel good about ourselves. Yet we take less time with our internal look. Some in the class said we should "bring of our best to the master."

To challenge the class, I asked, "What would you think if an elder served Sunday morning communion while wearing shorts and a t-shirt?" (I attend a formal church.) That, I think, got the issue across. We say dressing up for church is to show honor and respect to the Lord, but in reality we judge the outside of people.

And...as you say, people should know us by our love expressed from hearts and lives that are being transformed by the grace of mercy of Jesus Christ.

You say all this far better than this old 57 year old man can. So thank you for your words - except one. ;) I believe that you meant to use "bear" instead of "bare" especially in reference to prancing in your bathrobe! You always do so well with your English so I really get tickled when you do make a mistake. Especially one like this. See https://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/bare.html