Posted by: the warrioress | October 23, 2011

This gave me chills! You have to watch this

This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen online.  It’s just amazing.

Watch this and you’ll see what I mean.  This is beautiful and if nothing else convinces, this should.

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Posted by: the warrioress | October 23, 2011

Loving the Unlovable

How can a Christian love her enemies? What about those who detest her and wish her harm because of her faith? How do we as Christians really find a way to love those who want to hurt us consistently?

It’s easy to feel sorrow for people whom we see  with sympathy but what are we to do when our enemies are abusing and mistreating us? What do we do when they are determined to silence and destroy our testimony? What do we do when we simply don’t like someone and think they are an awful person?

Living the Christian life according to the directions contained within the Bible is challenging and for the sincere of heart.  I think it could take a lifetime of learning to practice the principles set down within the pages of the Bible again and again.

These principles do not come to my heart naturally.  My nature is that of a warrior. Humility, forgiveness, and the willingness to do away with the pride of life is contrary to whom I was before finding salvation.  Years later, it’s still a struggle. I’m reminded of Peter who chopped off the ear of the guard who came for Jesus;  it’s probably what I would have done as well.

The world does not encourage meek, passive traits in human beings these days and Christians have to live in the world; still we are to pattern ourselves after Jesus Christ and His example; this is what God would have us do. How then do we find our way to truly loving our enemies?  The following reading sheds some light on this, for me anyway:

The assumption that is made in Christ’s teaching regarding our enemies is that we are hated or despised undeservedly (1Pet 4:15,16; Matt 5:11). That is, we are being persecuted for our faith, for his sake, and not for anything that deserves such a response. Before we attempt to apply the following principles to our relationships we should search our hearts and ensure that we have not created enemies by doing wrong. If it is possible that we have offended others and are ourselves guilty, then we should first seek their forgiveness. That being said, let’s look at the proper attitude toward our enemies.

Job did not rejoice when his enemies suffered destruction. A mark of godly character is to rejoice with those that rejoice, and to weep with those that weep (Rom 12:15). This extends even to our enemies. God said that those who are glad when they see calamities (disaster or trouble) will not go unpunished! (Prov 17:5)

Although David’s enemies brought false accusations against him, rejected his goodness and responded with evil, David did not respond likewise. He mourned when his enemies were sick, he humbled himself and even prayed for them. At the same time that David was praying for his enemies, in the same passage, he was also praying that God would judge them!

David was not willing to rise up against his enemies himself. He brought his cause to the Lord. He personally prayed for these men and their well being, while knowing at the same time that they needed to be judged by God. By accusing David falsely, they were actually doing damage to the name of God, in whom David trusted. David desired that these men would be judged so that God’s name could be cleared. As a result, his friends would magnify the Lord and David could speak of the righteousness and praise of God all the day long.

Each time Jesus was persecuted by his enemies, he did not respond in like manner. Instead, as our example, he committed his cause to God. God is the ultimate judge and we can be assured that when he does judge, he will do it righteously. When we fail to rely on God in dealing with our enemies, it is very likely that we will respond in emotion or wrath. By submitting to God as the righteous judge we protect ourselves from losing our testimony in a fit of retaliation. Our enemies expect retribution and confrontation. By submitting to God and responding in love, we immediately project character qualities that are different from what this world is used to. We create an opportunity for God to receive glory by our willingness to forgo our own glory. See also Rom 12:19

Stephen was able to respond to his enemies the very same way that Jesus did. How was this possible? He was filled with the spirit of Christ. A mark of spirituality in the life of a Christian is his ability to bear and respond well to reproach, criticism, persecution and hatred from others. When we become embittered toward our enemies or lash out toward them, we are acting in the flesh and not in the spirit (Gal 5:19-25). We must love our enemies.

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Posted by: the warrioress | October 22, 2011

Scary People

Out in cyberspace where people compete with one another for time and attention, when one is threatened by another’s points of view, opinions, or beliefs, the easiest thing one can do is get rid of the person through one venue or another. How does one get rid of the person? There are numerous ways for the sicker among us.

One can pretend that the person doesn’t exist through ignoring what threatens one or essentially blocking them out of one’s mind; this is the least overt and harmless of one’s methods.

A little more intimidating, one can strive to create drama and angst with the person directly in order to influence others to take sides against the person who is threatening; hence creating a virtual lynch-mob that will focus upon running the person off.

One can resort to covertly advertising to everyone encountered that one is being victimized by the person so that other people begin to feel sorry for one, which results in the same lynch-mob mentality in the sad attempt to get rid of said person.

One can become increasingly proactive and tattletale behind the person’s back to those in charge or try to get the person into trouble, resulting in getting the person removed from wherever it is everyone is congregating — and last but not least, onecan mislead, outright deceive, and basically trick everyone around one into what one perceives, through a variety of underhanded schemes and manipulations.

Unfortunately, warped, disturbed people have the ability to exercise all or any of these sick options and proceed to put them into action once we come into their focus.  There are so many people on the internet on a variety of social networking sites that will go to any and all lengths to do away with anyone who intimidates or threatens their weak sense of self esteem and identity.  If we spend any time at all online at a regular locale, we’ve all probably had to deal with someone who disliked us for absolutely no reason that we could fathom, short of just outright jealousy over our ideas, who we are, or what we look like. These people envy us to the point they begin to have contempt and dislike for us, in that they feel that we are a threat to them in some unspoken way.

While we innocently go about our daily existence, this kind of person is scrutinizing and focusing upon us in a truly pathological manner and we don’t even know it until they make themselves known through forcing themselves into our lives through strange machinations of circumstances, events, and people.

Suddenly we become aware that we have an actual enemy out here, who is deluded and akin to the woman in the movie “Fatal Attraction.” It’s someone scary, disturbed, and actually obsessed. This person has at their disposal a whole host of tricks up their sleeves and while we’re hardly naive, there is no way that we can possibly fight against or even realize what this individual is capable of.

People don’t attempt to get rid of or silence someone who doesn’t threaten them. Truly disturbed people will go to practically any length to see someone else censored, silenced, degraded, humiliated, or demeaned in order to wipe away their internet presence. Their intent becomes obvious over time to more than just themselves, although they are very adept at lying to themselves and living in an alternate reality where they are the victim and their target is the enemy. Their primary purpose is to convince everyone else of their perspective so that they can continue to sustain their delusion.

I’ve had to deal with a person like I’m describing, for a very long time now. This person is a sad, pathetic individual and it’s becoming clear to me that I haven’t even begun to touch the surface of how deranged she is. I don’t think I realized how consuming focusing upon me has become for her. I’m truly at a loss to know how to deal with her now and in the future. Most people would suggest that one avoid, stay away from, and just ignore her and she’ll eventually go away.

Unfortunately, I’m beginning to recognize that there are some people who will never go away. One can only hope that they never make themselves known in real time within our daily lives because they can become akin to something out of a horror tale and wreak havoc upon our comfortable existence.

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Posted by: the warrioress | October 22, 2011

Reality is really just reality!

 

 

There is a lot of garbage floating around the internet that promises to change your life. We’re literally bombarded with it. From “The Secret” that Oprah Winfrey promoted and got behind, to a lot of New Age material that is basically old age “positive thinking” repackaged, this New Age mumbo jumbo appears to be everywhere we look! We are being overwhelmed by mystical promises that encourage us to find our power within ourselves and create our own realities. We even hear this from the prosperity preachers that encourage us to use our minds so that we can visualize and create what we most want. These philosophies almost promise something magical that we can make happen if we simply … focus.

New Age-ism is becoming the prism through which we are told we should view the world. More and more we see this perspective subtly and not so subtly laid out for our consumption as a society. Because this perspective is being pushed and forced onto humanity through so many venues, despite ourselves it will eventually begin to impact us, whether we think so or not. What all of this New Age babble is attempting to do is convince us that we can control everything in our lives with our minds; that we are in charge, that we are powerful, and that we create our own realities. To sum this up in a nutshell, New Age thought wants to convince us that:

 – we are God and we can be and act as God –

Unfortunately, New Age propaganda does not recognize or admit that no matter what we are thinking in our minds is reality, there is still a real, true, actual reality that exists, nevertheless. This reality does not alter or change no matter what we’re thinking or perceiving. We can successfully bury our heads into the sand, though, and convince ourselves of these lies. We can tell ourselves that something is the opposite of what it really is. We can believe the lies we attempt to tell ourselves. What this is, though, is something else entirely. It’s something we often did as children when we couldn’t face the truth of things in our lives. We pretended.

Pretending may feel “real,” but it’s not real. It may actually look and feel so real that we don’t recognize our own delusion, but we’re really only fooling ourselves; we’re not actually changing reality. There are some realities that exist in our world whether we are able or willing to look at and acknowledge them or not. What are some of these?

People are starving; they are truly, honest to goodness, going hungry in our world. Our weather is changing and becoming more and more unpredictable. Wars are increasing. Violence all over the world is growing and increasing. People are becoming de-sensitized to violence.

These are just some of the realities that are truth no matter what we may desire or “feel” about them. No matter how long or often we focus, we cannot change these realities with our minds. Certainly we can bury our heads in the sand or lie to ourselves about the truth of these matters, or pretend that they don’t exist, but how does this really help anyone, much less ourselves? We’re not living in the real world! We are unable to face reality and so we escape it instead, just like the alcoholic or the drug addict, or anyone who uses an unfortunate technique to runaway from the hard truths within life.

Personally, I would rather deal with the unfortunate realities head on and not fool myself about what truth is. I want to see the real thing, no matter how much it hurts. It builds my character and strength of mind and heart to actually see reality and accept it as it is. I do my part to fight against what upsets or disillusions me if I can’t accept it, but I’m not going to intentionally delude myself because I don’t have the inner ability to simply look at reality. If I don’t recognize the hard realities and confront them, I can’t change the facts of what is occurring.

I don’t want to escape from everything difficult just to make life easier for myself. This is an extremely selfish, sad way of viewing the world and more than anything else, it’s a weak way of living life. It doesn’t take much character to run away and hide from truth. What this consists of is intentional deceit and trickery. It’s a way of deceiving one’s own self because one doesn’t have the strength of character to face and take on truth. I’m tougher than this and don’t want to shy away from the hard stuff of life. I want to make a difference by seeing reality and putting my dukes up to do whatever I need to do to either change it or learn to cope with it without fear through accepting it.

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Posted by: the warrioress | October 21, 2011

Cruelty

I never have been able to keep my mouth shut.

I will witness horrible things said and done, and even as a child I had to stand up, come forward, and speak up about it. I’m not saying I offered a sermon to the perpetrator because I was too young to know how to give a sermon, but I didn’t mince words. Nothing has changed now; I’m still exactly the same.

Cruelty horrifies me. It agitates and shocks me. After the shock begins to fade, it angers me. I think this is because I’m a very empathetic person and I can’t stand to see other people hurt and suffering, most especially when they are being hurt or are having to suffer out of someone else’s intent.

I am more apt to be able to accept cruelty aimed at myself than I can when I find it aimed at someone else. There is something within me that just will not be passive and allow real cruelty to occur without voicing my displeasure with whomever is perpetrating it. This “problem” tends to get me into trouble, especially lately.

Being on the internet, cruelty within the written word is quite literally everywhere one looks. It’s rare that we don’t stumble upon it daily because there are so many people who give into this aspect of human nature. Not many people speak up about cruelty when it’s occurring. I suppose they fear that they will be the next target for the cruel person’s wrath, so it’s easier to simply stay quiet or turn away entirely. Well, I cannot do that; something within me will not allow me to.

As for when cruelty is fired at me, and it certainly has been, I’ve learned over time to handle it lightly and treat it with humor if possible. There are times, however, that cruelty is so over the top, that it floors me — it actually renders me briefly speechless. At these times, I find that it’s best to simply turn these cruel people over to Him in whom my complete and utter faith resides. God will not let me down, nor forget me. He will take care of everything far better than I ever could and with perfect precision and wisdom. Not only will He do that, but I sleep well at night, knowing that God is in charge — no matter how the situation may seem to the contrary.

“…it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you, and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power…”
(2 Thessalonians 1:6-9). (Modern KJV)

God will repay those who harm us in any way because we are the apple of His eye. We belong to God. We are the elect of God. We are King’s Kids. The Law of Sowing and Reaping also applies here- one will reap what they sow. Our enemies- to the degree that they say or do anything against one of God’s true children- to that same degree they will receive back from God in full recompense. And if our enemies do not repent by the time they die, they will suffer the consequences of eternal damnation.

(source: http://7-star-admiral.com/0753_2Thessalonians_commentary.html)  

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Posted by: the warrioress | October 20, 2011

Naming my blog

I thought I would mention how I came about deciding upon a name for this blog.

I’m considering actually creating my own domain name and address because it’s so reasonable to do so on this site and it increases one’s blog traffic immensely. I’ve already experienced several views but to get the views up there, one really needs to be able to reach a wide audience and there are so many tricks of the trade to this, but a good name is really important.

When I was over at the dating site, Matchdoctor, I met a wonderful lady there, (HpyLady), who was messaging back and forth with me and one day she commented, “you’re a bible warrior!”

I chuckled to myself as she said it but I didn’t forget her words and they kind of grew on me over time, and I liked the sound of that because it fits, based upon what’s occurring all around us in the times we’re now living through. For those of you who have seen the movie, The Book of Eli, you’ll understand what I’m talking about. If you haven’t seen it, you need to view it.

Christians may yet have to become “bible warriors,” in my opinion. It is going to get that difficult out here to be able to share the word of God with others. People are eventually going to kill us for attempting to share it, and I think the bible will actually be banned before too much longer. The stage is being set for this very thing to come about.

We are rapidly losing our freedoms in this nation and freedom of religion will be one of the first to go. Christians are already being verbally and emotionally persecuted for our faith here in America, and in other countries Christians are being murdered. Things will definitely escalate in the future. Christians have to be able to put on the whole armor of God, as the good book says, and we may have to actually put it on literally as well. Time will tell.

Anyway, this lady friend of mine unknowingly gave me the idea for the name of this blog, which sort of resulted in an idea for the user name as well, “the warrioress.” I think both are a good fit for me and explain writings that may be a bit controversial for some. Censorship is my enemy and I stand by everyone being allowed freedom of speech, including those with whom I disagree.

Thank you, HpyLady for a wonderful, colorful, brilliant name and title. God bless you, my friend.

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Posted by: the warrioress | October 20, 2011

And now for a momentary change of pace…

I was just thinking earlier… pretty much about every five minutes that I was writing, about how I could not exist without a multitude of smilies as my writing must have them. I have become so used to using these dern things and now I cannot and will not go without them. Well, this site does not apparently have its own, however, webpress is aware that we need these and so we can put them in ourselves!

And so, based upon my feelings this lovely evening for the good moderator over on MD, I thought I might offer him a few here on my blog before I go to sleep for the evening. So just for you, MD Moderator..here you are:

Smiley  Smiley                           Smiley

and last but definitely not least….this one’s for you:  Smiley

Goodnight all,

dancing smiley courtesy of www.freesmileys.org

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Posted by: the warrioress | October 19, 2011

Ugly hearts?

I’m striving not to think in black and white terms when it comes to people I meet and the way that they think, or the things that they choose to freely say. I need to see them as blending in shades of gray, in that they are made up of good, bad, mediocre, and whole rainbow of colors in their natures. It’s so hard though, because these days, many are seemingly becoming pretty bad.

I was reading over on MD and encountered a comment in the Random Thoughts section that was enough to quite literally turn my stomach. It went like this:

Apparently one person was kicked off and another left before that happened!

And doggone it! I didn’t get to congratulate one for finally making (or attempting to make) an honest woman out of his g/f after living off her all these years!

 

I know who this older woman is talking about, as does everyone else.  He is no longer there to speak for himself, as I am not either. These disgusting comments are the kind of thing we have both had to tolerate the entire time that we were members there.  The moderator allowed this and never did delete commentary that was insulting toward us or the other Christians. He is still allowing it today, it would appear, so nothing has changed there in the slightest.

What is amazing to me though is that the person who made this comment is an older, mature, retired woman who claims to be a Christian, who should know better.  Unfortunately, what I’ve seen from her is a tendency to gossip, and take jabs at other people’s expense. I see more of the same directed at me as well on the same thread, from the same bullies and trolls that are filled with glee when they are able to hurt others freely. How very ugly this all is. And something within me tells me quietly within my mind that they must have ugly hearts…

I don’t understand this though, because there is good in them as well. This lady who made this terribly ugly comment loves animals and cares for them. How could someone who loves cats act like this and want to reach out and stab someone with her words so callously? What kind of hate must she have within her that she wants to hurt another so badly? And how does that gel with the animal-loving person that she appears to be? I just don’t understand it.

I’ve seen some serious ugliness on that forum and in the blogs and will continue to, I guess, and what is most surprising to me is that this ugliness is often emanating from people who claim to love God or to be spiritual. It’s beyond me entirely. I guess that they’ve forgotten that the two greatest commandments that Jesus said the Law and Prophets were based upon were to love God with all of our hearts and to love our neighbor as our self. I don’t think these people get it.

At any rate, I could feel myself getting tense and wanting to go back there again and respond to these people, and most especially to her who said what she did, and just let her have it. The man she said that about doesn’t need or deserve that kind of disrespect and ugliness. I do hope he doesn’t read that. And it infuriates me that he might read it and be hurt by it but there’s nothing I can do about that now. I can’t keep going back there just because some of the people there show what is within their hearts for all to see. (sigh)

I will have to let it go. I cannot ride to the rescue like an angry knight-ess charging forth to rescue those whom she loves; I don’t think that the man in question would expect me to do so at this point anyway. I hope he can just let it go and ignore these sick, unfortunate, obviously disturbed-on-some- level people who don’t know how to love, who are short on compassion and mercy.

If this keeps up, I may have to stop reading over there entirely because I won’t be able to ever put this behind me if I don’t.

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Posted by: the warrioress | October 19, 2011

Heartwrenching

I’ve got tears in my eyes as I write this — I never realized how difficult it would be to feel as if I’m saying goodbye to those whom I’ve really cared about, who evidently really cared about me as well, who took our friendship seriously.

One of them, Dave (Trinity), has already commented on these blogs of mine. He stood up for me by writing a blog there this morning to counter the horrific blog put out by another bully/troll on that same MD dating site.  I never got to view that ugly blog RC wrote and perhaps it’s just as well. The moderator there deleted both Dave and RC’s blogs. Dave’s blog did not break the rules but of course, Dave was standing up for me, so apparently his blog had to go.  Go figure.

Dave gave me a copy of what he had written in his comment here. It was so moving to read his words and it is just now settling in how lucky I am to have touched the lives of some of the people that I’m now getting to know much better.

I had a look over there on MD a little while ago and to my astonishment saw that Jankia had also written a blog directly to me!  Apparently the moderator had done away with my profile, thus all of the mail I sent to various people last night was also done away with before they were able to view it, potentially. Several are asking Jankia for my email address over there, it would seem.

For those reading, my email address is BibleWarrioress@aol.com and it’s not really a state secret so feel free to use and share it with anyone that may want to contact me directly; I don’t mind at all.

Jankia has written a lovely blog tonight and it settled my agitation as I read it, because before I came upon it,  I read something else in the MD forum that disturbed me quite a bit.  I realized that Jankia always has been good at calming me down with his wise words and brings me back to a level-headed place of self control instead of the hot-headed person I can occasionally be when I get mad.

More and more I learn from some of the Christians at MD who have taught me so much about real Christianity. They walk their talk to the best of their ability. They are really in love with Jesus Christ, and I admire their Christian walk so much. I want to be like them and I feel the bonds of true family reaching across the miles, despite our  never having met in person.

I’m so sorry that you’ve been put into the middle on this thing, Jankia, between your former and current friends and myself. I know that some of your friends don’t like me and have clashed with me. Many of them don’t understand me. Hopefully, they will feel as I do though, that it doesn’t matter whether your friends and I get along or we don’t;  the fact of the matter is that none of us should be able to stand to see you suffer and so should strive not to allow you to be put into a tug-of-war between us, attempting to make you take sides out of our egos.

Your wisdom astounds me and I know you can make your own wise, valid decisions in this regard, and I trust in that.

Again, this blog is just to thank those of you who have really been here for me and who are continuing to be. There are more of you than I would have ever imagined. IB4U, Angel, and so many others, I hope you are reading and if you aren’t, I hope someone will see that you read this somehow. I miss you and I love you.

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Posted by: the warrioress | October 19, 2011

Standing up for myself

I took some action that may or may not have been wise, but I felt that I had to discuss many falsehoods and intentional misleading commentary that was being shared about me at that former home of mine, MD.  I felt that to move on from it that I had to set the record straight.  I also wanted to write a letter to the moderator there and make clear how wrong I thought he was for the inconsistencies he’s engaged in, and the heavy-handed approach he takes with Christians, in particular.

I wanted to share my new locale with some of the friends I had made there so that I would not lose touch with any of them, so that they would know that I’m all right. I wanted them to see that I’m bouncing back, slowly but surely.  Truly, I was hurt over the action taken there against me, and I still am on many levels.  I was angry too because I didn’t understand the absolute unfairness of the matter and how it all was handled.

I was dealt with so coldly, with no compassion or understanding, and not even any attempt to communicate with me; I think this was the biggest problem I had with the thing. I expected so much more out of the MD moderator than I received.  I guess I thought that I really mattered as one of the members there to him.  How wrong I was.

Anyway, it hurt.

Well, I’ve said my piece  now, even though it will be wiped away very soon, and I’ve no real reason to return there.  I want to close the door on that place for the time being, I guess.  It’s time to move ahead and just forgive and attempt to forget.  I got to say my goodbyes and communicate with most of those I care about again, so now… I’m moving forward, or at least I will try to do so.  I’m not saying I’ll never write about that place again because I have no doubt I will, but I want to positively focus upon the good things I’m finding despite what happened at MD, and the new possibilities for the future — this blog mainly for one.

Another thing is that I’m really in awe of that other place I’ve found (Christian site) and I think I’ve really managed to discover a place where I can learn a wealth of knowledge from some amazing, REAL Christians, who take their beliefs as seriously as I do. And they seem really kind, pleasant, and loving! I don’t see the same kind of pettiness, gossipy behavior, and game-playing that I’ve had to deal with in the past most recently.

I think I could really grow in my Christianity at that place. I’m really looking forward to this.

Going to church at my neighborhood church hasn’t been the best experience because I don’t have a lot in common with some of the people there and it’s such a small church.  There are no singles or divorced people my age. Finding that new Christian site is really going to be something that I think may help me more than anything else, short of time spent with God in prayer, the bible, etc.

Anyway, life is looking up and I hope all begins to work out better, despite these bumps in the road of late. I am forging ahead and hoping for the best!

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