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Keep on believing Beth, and especially in the bad times in your life. To steal a quote from Shakespeare, no matter what everybody else says or believes in, "..to thine own self be true."
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People die...it is simply a fact of life. When something bad happens...I ask God to see me through it and He has without fail every time.
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Have a blessed day!...Rachel
stable and sooooooo thankful!
I have IBS but it doesn't have me!
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ditto, michele. when good things happen, i'm happy. there are some things, like when everything fell into place for me to get my current job, when i do feel grateful, but not to anyone, if that's possible.
i agree, though, that if i were to credit god for the good i'd have to do the same for the bad.
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This will probably make no sense to you but I've learned to trust God implicitly, have come to the conclusion that WHATEVER happens in my life, this is God loving me. It may hurt, but I can't see the big picture - He can, He sees my past hurts and my future and He knows how it all works together to grow me up into the person He wants me to be. Namely, like Jesus. I trust Him!! I thank Him for the blessings and when there is pain/loss, I have to say, "The Lord gives and the Lord takes away... blessed be the name of the Lord". Since I see every good thing in my life as a gift from Him, I have to thank Him I had the chance to enjoy it and trust Him when He allows it to be taken. Whatever that is... sometimes that is counter to reason and extremely hard... I would never look at someone else in their pain and say, "This is good for you for some reason", no, I'd never say that in that moment. In fact, I know that His heart grieves when we have to hurt.. Jesus cried when Lazarus died, he WEPT, even though He knew He was about to bring him back to life again. Why cry?? BEcause the people He loved were in pain. It grieved Him.
This is a broken world we live in. If there were no pain or loss we'd be in Heaven already. We're not. The Lord does not wish that we should suffer but it is a part of this world and though I do not pretend to understand all the detailed ins and outs of all that, I trust Him. I've been through a lot in this life of mine, much of wish I do not care to go into in a public forum like this, but I can say that in the end - I TRUST HIM and HE LOVES ME in the midst of it all.
Know that does not answer your question and may have only raised more, but had to share my perspective, anyway. 
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Michelle
...the greatest of these is LOVE. (I Cor 13)
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Very well said. That's exactly how I feel, though I wouldn't have been able to word it nearly so well.
Terri
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I have IBS but it doesn't have me!
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I believe that all good comes from God, and while bad things might happen to all us sometime or another God does not make them happen, but allows cricumstances to come together that will test and tempt me. It is through those tests and trails that I am strengthened. Someday I will be able to reach back and take the hand of someone who needs the strength that I have gained, and then together we can take another step forward.
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 Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow”. Mary Anne Radmacher
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Shannon, Um yes, when it's snowing regularly. Sorry I couldn't
answer this till now. I travelled home from Chicago on Sat,
and had to get ready for school again on sunday. Yesterday,
we had the worst blizzard in the 22 yrs. I've been living here
. It was snowing so much at such a rate that they pulled the
plows from the roads and declared a state of emergency. Of
course I was driving home at that point(I live 10 miles
from school). I got to my town(actually it's a village of
1000) and had to leave my 4WD truck at a friend's house at
the bottom of a hill on which I live at the top. The snow
on the road up to my house was 1.5 ft.deep(glad I didn't
try to drive) and the winds were blowing at 40 mph. This
was at 3 in the aft. no less. This morning I found my whole
porch area filled with snow. This is where I get out the
front of my house. The windows and door were completely
white. I tried pushing on the door and it didn't budge a
millimeter. This is the only regular way out of my house!
So, I had to climb out my 2nd floor bedroom window and
slide down the garage roof off into a snowbank with my dog
in my lap(he had to do his poops of course).Thank was kinda
fun,reminded me of when I was a kid. I scooped out a path
to my porch, and then dug a tunnel through to the porch
door so I could get in and out again. That took 4 hrs! By
the time I got to school, I had to go swim, then eat lunch
, finally got to my office and have been trying to catch up
on posting. I've heard we got 28 inches since 8am yesterday
morning. So make that a total of 298 inches so far<laugh>!
By the way, I think you've generated the longest thread in
the history of the boards(that I know of). The longest
thread I've ever seen was a 185 posts. This makes 227 for
your thread!
- A snow tired Bob
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It better go out like a lamb cause it sure as heck has come in like a lion all over the freaking continent!
Anyhow, what an adventure! Who needs to watch movies when you candig tunnels and slide off your roof to take the dog to do his business?? HA HA!! Incredible that the world doesn't just shut down after that. I can't believe you'd even go to work!You're a prof, you can cancel classes!
Anyhow, I am utterly amazed that this post has gone so far, and has no intentions of stopping. I guess we found some stuff that a whole lot of people may differ on, but are passionate about. I think that's really neat. I had no IDEA everyone would chime in, but I'm so glad they did.
Hang in there, good buddy!  Sending you some snowshoes 
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Keep on keepin' on...
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