Posted by: the warrioress | July 7, 2013

Praise Him Through Even BPD

Praise the LordI’ve had a lot of worries lately. Most of them have concerned my teen child, who is the most important person in my life, after God of course.

My daughter is trying some new medications. She has officially been diagnosed with Bipolar Personality Disorder. This disorder has seriously impacted her life. I haven’t spoken about this on my blog until now. This is something very private that I wanted to keep to myself. I wasn’t going to expose how difficult dealing with disorder has been for me as a Mom. I have suffered in silence, so to speak.

This personality disorder is pure hell. The stress is puts upon the families of the child with BPD is something that will vary, child to child. The challenges of this disease are immense and demanding. Parenting a child with this problem is a whole new ballgame. As a Christian, this is yet another obstacle that my daughter and I will deal with, and deal with happily, with faith in God.

I trust God to get me through this and help me navigate the hills and valleys. I trust God to help my daughter through her medications, therapy, and the new doctor overseeing her care. I thank God and praise Him even in these awful trials that challenge she and I, and I ask for His blessing upon my beautiful little girl, and His protection in the name of His son, Jesus Christ my Lord.

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Posted by: the warrioress | July 6, 2013

River Flows In You

English: Gently flows the Dun The River Dun fl...

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Please listen to the video below and allow the music to soothe you or make you think deeply upon whatever you will.  I find this music to be absolutely beautiful. I hope you enjoy it. The artist is Yiruma, “River Flows In You.”

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Posted by: the warrioress | July 4, 2013

Our Family’s Fourth of July

I’ve been really busy with many things but thankfully it’s a holiday. Time to celebrate America’s Independence and wish all of you a very happy Fourth of July with your friends and family.

Here at our place, we’re going to be sipping fresh-squeezed strawberry lemonade with freshly minced strawberries, one of my teen daughter’s favorites. We’ve also got a little cook out planned with Uncle Donald. NewYork Strip steaks are on the menu, along with salad, green chili macaroni and cheese, with fresh guacamole dip and chips for an appetizer.

Later after our barbecue, we’re going to be watching some pay per view movies that we’ve wanted to see for awhile. They are all new releases and one of them is a really good science fiction called “Dark Skies.” Can’t wait to see it.

Around nine pm we usually watch the fireworks; we can catch them at one of the neighboring air force bases close to where we live, but we’re out of the city limits, so our neighbors often make sure we have plenty to watch right here in our front yard.

I’m really looking forward to getting my mind off of some of the more serious concerns that have kept me preoccupied of late. There have been some not-so-enjoyable challenges on the home front that I’ve taken to the good Lord in prayer; sometimes that’s all I can do because I have little to no control over certain situations.

Anyway, I’ve not really felt like writing too much about my various concerns. I guess this has been a little obvious, huh? Hopefully, I’ll be able to get back into the swing of things and enjoy blogging a bit more in the upcoming days. Summer time can be difficult to get motivated to write regularly because I’m spending most of my time with my daughter and putting her first in my life. She’s out of school and we stay busy keeping each other amused.

God bless you all and keep you this fourth of July. I hope you get to spend time doing what you love most, with those whom you love most.

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Posted by: the warrioress | June 29, 2013

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Posted by: the warrioress | June 24, 2013

Alternative Families

Families

Families (Photo credit: normalityrelief)

We are living in a societal culture that has changed drastically within the last thirty years. When we look around us, it’s clear that the definition of family is something quite different than it used to be. The “traditional” family was something back in the fifties and sixties; it consisted of a mother & father, children, and the family pet.

These days there are all kinds of models of what “family” looks like. Now there are same sex partners at the helm guiding the homestead, instead of the traditional male and female  “Mother & Father.”

Family

Family (Photo credit: Kaptain Kobold)

Now there are single parent families that consist of men or women struggling to raise their children, many managing to do a wonderful job. There are blended families, and families being raised by older siblings. There are even couplings of two mothers and a father, (sister wives), and their children.

It seems easiest to refer to this redefinition of family as “alternative” families. There is no longer a set stereotype for what a family will look like. The alternative family is the new reality within society, like it or not.

Because of this fact, the church needs to be ready to discuss the needs of alternative families in all their unusual, untraditional glory. Churches who are not accepting, stuffy, prejudiced, and self-righteous in their antiquated expectations of days gone by, are going to fall by the wayside because they refuse to minister effectively to these new members of their congregations.

Nuclear Lesbian Family

Nuclear Lesbian Family (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

No one says that we have to approve of the new alternative family, the same-sex adoptive couple and their brood of children, etc., — but should they receive less ministering to and compassion than the rest of the families that come through a church’s doors? We can accept in love those who are seeking God, who are looking for the way to salvation, to Jesus Christ our Lord. We don’t need to hastily judge and criticize, taking moral inventory of a family’s sins before they’ve even accepted the need for a savior.

There are those who are so caught up in their own hyper-vigilance over other people’s sins, that they’ve lost sight of what the Good News actually is and who it is for!

Traditional family unit

Traditional family unit (Photo credit: mjtmail (tiggy))

Jesus died for the sinful, the sick, and the lost! He came to bring a physician to those who need doctoring. Instead of condemning and judging those different from ourselves harshly, why not open up our hearts and pulpit to these alternative families who are seeking truth, counseling, compassion, and most of all biblical hope that there is someone out here who loves them, who cares enough to tell them about the way to Jesus Christ.

Allow the Holy Spirit to minister to their hearts as God would have Him in regard to their personal sins, as we do the rest of sinful society. When someone accepts Jesus Christ and becomes a new creature in Christ, they are altered forever in God’s time, not ours.  We are their support system. We encourage and teach them how to read the bible and understand it. We allow God to reach them through our own loving Christ-like treatment of them.

Trust in the love of Jesus Christ and put the condemnation and righteous anger on the back burner. Open your hearts to all of those who come seeking God. The days of the traditional family are passed and our churches need to move forward and deal with the reality of what the new “family” consists of.

http://christianfamilylawassociation.org/alternative_families

http://www.compellingtruth.org/gay-marriage.html

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Posted by: the warrioress | June 20, 2013

An Astonishing Message from a Gay Sister in Christ

I reblog this “message” because I feel that its point is very well made and clarifies for me how I should deal with the glbt “issue” as a Christian in 2013, which can be challenging, to say the least. I prefer to struggle with the beam within my own eye, instead of picking at the one within my sister’s. Thank you, Hunter Baker, for this “astonishing message from a gay sister in Christ.” Very well said indeed! I just had to share it.

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Posted by: the warrioress | June 19, 2013

My Sheep

Jesus and a baby sheep

These verses promise me that if I am one of the Lord’s “sheep,” that I hear the Lord’s voice and He knows me; I follow Him. God promises me eternal life, assuring me that I will never die spiritually. I am also promised that no man can steal me out God’s hands; I am safe in the hands of the Lord.

No man can steal me away!

What this means is that no one can take us away from the love of God, of Jesus Christ. No man can trick us, force us to go, or remove us from our God. If we truly are one of God’s own, His sheep, we are safe within His grasp. If we have been removed, we must ask ourselves if we ever were really His to begin with.  This is something to consider deeply. There are people who claim that they were Christians at one time, but they have left this Christian life and no longer believe for a host of reasons.

Lost Sheep

Lost Sheep (Photo credit: Fif’)

For those who have left God behind, who believe that they were once His, He promises that no man can take us away from God, but a question remains:

Can we walk away on our own, by our own mindset and determination? Perhaps so.

In fact, it seems that we very well can. We can become lost, runaway, and go so far away from God and out on our own that it is very difficult to find our way back.  I believe God will send out angels themselves to bring us back to Him, though. I think God will do everything He possibly can short of forcing us to return to His flock.

If we’ve chosen to harden our hearts and stay away, no matter what God is trying to do to win us back…what then? And if we can actually walk away and not look back, and decide not to return despite His repeated attempts to woo us, were we ever really His to begin with?

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Posted by: the warrioress | June 8, 2013

Need You Now

 

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Need You Now

By Plumb

Well, everybody’s got a story to tell
And everybody’s got a wound to be healed
I want to believe there’s beauty here
‘Cause, oh, I get so tired of holding on
I can’t let go, I can’t move on
I want to believe there’s meaning here

How many times have You heard me cry out
“God please take this”?
How many times have You given me strength to
Just keep breathing?
Oh I need You
God, I need You now.

Standing on a road I didn’t plan
Wondering how I got to where I am
I’m trying to hear that still small voice
I’m trying to hear above the noise

How many times have You heard me cry out
“God please take this”?
How many times have You given me strength to
Just keep breathing?
Oh I need You
God, I need You now.

Though I walk,
Though I walk through the shadows
And I, I am so afraid
Please stay, please stay right beside me
With every single step I take

How many times have You heard me cry out?
And how many times have You given me strength?

How many times have You heard me cry out
“God please take this”?
How many times have You given me strength to
Just keep breathing?
Oh I need You
God, I need You now.

I need You now
Oh I need You
God, I need You now.
I need You now
I need You now

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Posted by: the warrioress | June 5, 2013

A New World

woman waiting for train by tracksI was thinking about the many ways that I have changed within the last couple of years, since I began this blog. My views have altered and grown; in fact, I can hardly recognize myself in some areas. Spiritually, God has changed my mind and heart in ways I never could have foreseen.

If you find inconsistencies in my points of view over time, you’ll hopefully understand why. I began this blog firmly holding very rigid, particular points of view and many of these have been shaken up as I’ve traveled this road less traveled, this narrow road.

I find that God is doing amazing things within me. I find myself becoming much less the proverbial warrior and more pacifistic like Him…

If I am a warrior at all anymore, I find that I am a warrior in spirit, in that I am not afraid to speak the truth, especially to those who seem to find it hardest to hear. I will speak up and proclaim what I’ve learned and sometimes my own Christian brethren cannot conceive of what I’m talking about. I tend to put some of them off with some of the ways I now look at things. Some have been known to scream at me “false doctrine!”  Shaking their virtual fists in self-righteousness and smug certainty, they insist that I am wrong.

As a rich man cannot perceive of giving up his riches, so do many who think they know God’s will and are following that, but who are not truly living as Jesus Christ would have them live according to His word. These Christians believe they are following the Holy Bible but are not embracing His ways as described within the Holy Bible in regard to sinners, the poor, homeless, and really difficult to love people like the mentally ill, for example.

I find that I am rarely fighting those who do not believe anymore  — the atheists, and those who would condemn followers of Christ seem to have very little to fight with me about.  And there is little to nothing to fight with them about. Whether or not they want to know Jesus Christ isn’t something to fight over with them — it’s a simple choice and their decision, not mine for them.

woman-hiking-and-looking-up-to-the-skyOnce one embraces love and begins to incorporate an attitude that is as Christ’s attitude in the bible is, there is simply no more reason to fight, be threatened, or even allow one’s self to be bothered much by what the world thinks or can do. Instead I find myself trying to appeal to the compassion-less among us these days. I seem to be attempting to reach out to those who don’t love easily, but who judge and criticize as if they wrote the bible instead of our God. Not all hear me, but that’s all right; I’m walking this journey according to God’s will, not my own.

Change can occur in this world of ours and I know it will, but not for everyone. Change happens to those whose hearts are open to God and His way of being after His son’s sacrifice on the cross. We live in almost a new world after the death of Jesus Christ and God meant it to be a loving, merciful, compassionate place; this is why He sent His son to die in our place, for our sin. All we have to do is accept God’s new world and it is ours.

Not everyone will embrace this new world, this world of love and peace that God wants to offer them. Some of God’s very own children cannot understand this kind of world and are still living in the past in a world governed by the law, religion, and an “eye for an eye.”

God wants us to love as He loves, with as much compassion, empathy, and care as He has. He wants us to love everyone, even when it’s difficult. He wants us to love the unlovable, and to forgive the unforgivable. When we do this, we do truly live in a new world where anything is possible.

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Posted by: the warrioress | May 28, 2013

Please, Let this End!

No More Do-Overs

(Jodi Arias/Travis Alexander Trial)

It’s absolutely stupid to demand and insist upon another penalty phase for Jodi Arias. It’s obvious that over 1/3 of the jury believed that Jodi should have life in prison instead of the death penalty; I believe the same. There aren’t many of us, but there are enough who believe it to make it an obvious waste of Arizona taxpayer money and time if this goes forward. The fervor with which some believe Ms. Arias deserves death is akin only to vengeance desired at any price.

 Revenge will not be that sweet. It will taste hollow and flat. Killing another human being puts the killer(s) onto the same level that Jodi went to – a level that we’ve already admonished her is wrong and then we do the same thing she did, only allegedly in a more humane fashion. We all learned that two wrongs don’t make a right at a very early age, did we not? Let’s put what we learned into action!

Jodi will spend the rest of her natural life in prison and that should be punishment enough for a mentally ill woman who will be mentally ill for the rest of her days unless she gets actual mental health therapy that is ongoing. There is no win for anyone in dragging this matter on and on. If she is given the death penalty in a retry, it will certainly be overturned on appeal. If she is not, then what was the point? How bad will it stick in the Alexander family’s craw when a second jury comes back with the same thing the first did?

There are people who believe that Jodi Arias was treated badly by Travis Alexander, and while it’s highly unpopular to say so, it’s the truth!  A lot of people are afraid to say what they think for fear of the backlash on social media or otherwise. Travis’ emotional abuse of Jodi doesn’t even come close to excusing her slaughter of him, but it does explain it.

For those who claim Jodi is nothing more than a liar, it would seem we could say the same about Travis, as he certainly was not the zealously pure and chaste young man he wanted everyone to believe he was; yet even so, he believed he deserved a chaste, pure young Morman wife! Jodi Arias wasn’t good enough for him apparently, after he sampled her charms for half a year and then negligently tossed her to the curb. As I’ve said before, he threw her away like so much garbage emotionally and so she returned the favor physically when she left him in the shower in a similar fashion.

Travis Alexander made the unfortunate decision to use Jodi Arias until he was finished with her. He was hypocritical and living a double life, putting a religious false face on for friends, employers, etc.

Using another human being for sexual gratification purely is abusive behavior and it is sick. It is selfish, ugly, self centered, and exemplified by a life without Jesus Christ within it to guide one’s morality. It’s everywhere in our world today. Our youth are inundated with this concept by advertisement, video games, music, etc.

I can only hope that we, the people out here watching, learn from this situation and grow spiritually from it. Let’s learn from it as a society and teach our young men how to properly treat a young woman, and visa versa. If we begin to teach our youth some actual morality about how they treat one another romantically, instead of allowing them and encouraging them to abuse and use one another callously, perhaps we will see less of these kinds of horrific crimes occurring.

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