Comments on: The Email I Don’t Know How to Answer http://wearethatfamily.com/2010/06/the-email-i-dont-know-how-to-answer/ ... you know the ones. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:55:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Post YOU Should Read.. http://wearethatfamily.com/2010/06/the-email-i-dont-know-how-to-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-144048 The Post YOU Should Read.. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:23:51 +0000 http://wearethatfamily.com/?p=2349#comment-144048 [...] Please, read this post.  HERE [...] [...] Please, read this post.  HERE [...]

]]> By: Kelly Summers http://wearethatfamily.com/2010/06/the-email-i-dont-know-how-to-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-52240 Kelly Summers Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:06:52 +0000 http://wearethatfamily.com/?p=2349#comment-52240 Hope you are right on. grab some biographies...Amy Carmichael. Sabina Wurmbrant, George Muller, Hudson Taylor. Look to them or encouragement and examples of 'radical' Christians. It has helped me greatly. Hope you are right on. grab some biographies…Amy Carmichael. Sabina Wurmbrant, George Muller, Hudson Taylor. Look to them or encouragement and examples of ‘radical’ Christians. It has helped me greatly.

]]> By: Ashley http://wearethatfamily.com/2010/06/the-email-i-dont-know-how-to-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-52141 Ashley Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:11:11 +0000 http://wearethatfamily.com/?p=2349#comment-52141 Hope, you are not alone! It is so encouraging to know that another 21 year old is wrestling with the same things I am! Kristen – I started reading your blog when you went to Kenya. THANK YOU for all you write. I’m often challenged and encouraged to love and serve God (and His people) more after reading your entries. Can I link to this post? Hope, you are not alone! It is so encouraging to know that another 21 year old is wrestling with the same things I am!

Kristen – I started reading your blog when you went to Kenya. THANK YOU for all you write. I’m often challenged and encouraged to love and serve God (and His people) more after reading your entries. Can I link to this post?

]]> By: Amber http://wearethatfamily.com/2010/06/the-email-i-dont-know-how-to-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-52073 Amber Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:51:30 +0000 http://wearethatfamily.com/?p=2349#comment-52073 Hope I believe you are living out the compassion God calls us to have for the widows and orphans and the least of these. I highly recommend reading Interrupted by Jen Hatmaker and check out her website. In reference to your shoe comment God called her to be a barefooted church. I think you'll find encouragement in her story. Hope I believe you are living out the compassion God calls us to have for the widows and orphans and the least of these. I highly recommend reading Interrupted by Jen Hatmaker and check out her website. In reference to your shoe comment God called her to be a barefooted church. I think you’ll find encouragement in her story.

]]> By: Dawnette Thomas http://wearethatfamily.com/2010/06/the-email-i-dont-know-how-to-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-52031 Dawnette Thomas Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:08:22 +0000 http://wearethatfamily.com/?p=2349#comment-52031 Praise God for tender and loving hearts! You will make a difference, a positive difference, for the Kingdom of God! May He bring you answers and peace in fulfilling your calling. Serve when given the chance, love always and pray constantly. Others will see this is you when you are being you. Don't let the weak bring down the strong. Praise God for tender and loving hearts! You will make a difference, a positive difference, for the Kingdom of God! May He bring you answers and peace in fulfilling your calling. Serve when given the chance, love always and pray constantly. Others will see this is you when you are being you. Don’t let the weak bring down the strong.

]]> By: Jen http://wearethatfamily.com/2010/06/the-email-i-dont-know-how-to-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-51866 Jen Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:39:18 +0000 http://wearethatfamily.com/?p=2349#comment-51866 Sweet girl, I get it. There are other people in this country, on this planet, that think and feel like you do. You have partially answered your own question. Balance. Sounds so easy, but oh so hard to do, much less do it consistently. What balance looks like for you is something between you and God. Nobody else can tell you what that will look like. I find it difficult to think about these things with my finite mind, because I know God is not limited in that way, and his answer for the balance and peace you are looking for may not be anything you had ever considered. Don't be afraid to ask Him the hard questions. Ultimately, this is between God and you. Your family can't give you the answers, and they won't answer for your decisions in heaven, either. Wrestle it out with Him. Sweet girl, I get it. There are other people in this country, on this planet, that think and feel like you do. You have partially answered your own question. Balance. Sounds so easy, but oh so hard to do, much less do it consistently. What balance looks like for you is something between you and God. Nobody else can tell you what that will look like. I find it difficult to think about these things with my finite mind, because I know God is not limited in that way, and his answer for the balance and peace you are looking for may not be anything you had ever considered. Don’t be afraid to ask Him the hard questions. Ultimately, this is between God and you. Your family can’t give you the answers, and they won’t answer for your decisions in heaven, either. Wrestle it out with Him.

]]> By: Stacy Sawyer http://wearethatfamily.com/2010/06/the-email-i-dont-know-how-to-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-51855 Stacy Sawyer Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:20:48 +0000 http://wearethatfamily.com/?p=2349#comment-51855 This is such a great response and so true! This is such a great response and so true!

]]> By: Sheryle http://wearethatfamily.com/2010/06/the-email-i-dont-know-how-to-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-51847 Sheryle Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:29:32 +0000 http://wearethatfamily.com/?p=2349#comment-51847 Wow. Love the letter and so appreciate your tender heart towards the needy and forgotten. I showed it to my 14 year old daughter (who is praying about going on trip to Guatemala this year after years of waiting) and she said you shouldn't listen to those who discourage you from what you feel God is calling you to do. You should only listen to God. As far as giving away everything, she said you can simplify your life without having to run around naked. :) Do you think maybe you could be more useful if you got your education and then went overseas? Maybe you're just not motivated to continue in school right now. Maybe you could do a one-year program and then come back home and get your education. By then you will surely see what great needs there are and how God can use your gifts with that education to back you up and be used even more. Those were my daughter's thoughts...but understand she has been around missions all her life. Don't think she's not tempted with the American Dream..she is. We all are. My thoughts...been to Zimbabwe and various poor countries. Understand your love and passion. When you mentioned helping one and then turning around to see so many others in need and confused about what to do, it reminded me of what I read recently in David Platt's book Radical. He said that when we hear people say that they are only one person and there are so many needs and they decide just not to do anything--that is a lie straight from the pit of Hell. Ouch. That's a pretty strong statement, but there is a lot of truth there. I know YOU are not one of those who will just not do anything, but if you can make a difference in one life, even just one, then it is worth it. Yes, there will always be great needs, even Jesus said we will always have the poor with us. But he did not ignore them. He made a difference one life at a time. Pray. Seek God's wisdom and direction and He will guide you. You will know what to do and will have peace in the process. Seek the counsel of a godly pastor who is not emotionally involved. Our families love us and want the best for us. Sometimes they just don't see it though. Pray for them. Pray for God to open their eyes as well and then move forward with what God is calling you to do. Love to you and God's blessings on your sweet life. Wow. Love the letter and so appreciate your tender heart towards the needy and forgotten. I showed it to my 14 year old daughter (who is praying about going on trip to Guatemala this year after years of waiting) and she said you shouldn’t listen to those who discourage you from what you feel God is calling you to do. You should only listen to God. As far as giving away everything, she said you can simplify your life without having to run around naked. :) Do you think maybe you could be more useful if you got your education and then went overseas? Maybe you’re just not motivated to continue in school right now. Maybe you could do a one-year program and then come back home and get your education. By then you will surely see what great needs there are and how God can use your gifts with that education to back you up and be used even more. Those were my daughter’s thoughts…but understand she has been around missions all her life. Don’t think she’s not tempted with the American Dream..she is. We all are.

My thoughts…been to Zimbabwe and various poor countries. Understand your love and passion. When you mentioned helping one and then turning around to see so many others in need and confused about what to do, it reminded me of what I read recently in David Platt’s book Radical. He said that when we hear people say that they are only one person and there are so many needs and they decide just not to do anything–that is a lie straight from the pit of Hell. Ouch. That’s a pretty strong statement, but there is a lot of truth there. I know YOU are not one of those who will just not do anything, but if you can make a difference in one life, even just one, then it is worth it. Yes, there will always be great needs, even Jesus said we will always have the poor with us. But he did not ignore them. He made a difference one life at a time.

Pray. Seek God’s wisdom and direction and He will guide you. You will know what to do and will have peace in the process. Seek the counsel of a godly pastor who is not emotionally involved. Our families love us and want the best for us. Sometimes they just don’t see it though. Pray for them. Pray for God to open their eyes as well and then move forward with what God is calling you to do.

Love to you and God’s blessings on your sweet life.

]]> By: marky http://wearethatfamily.com/2010/06/the-email-i-dont-know-how-to-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-51840 marky Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:05:47 +0000 http://wearethatfamily.com/?p=2349#comment-51840 Wow.. I can completely relate to Hope. I knew something was different when I was in early elementary school. We got 3 pairof shoes per year. Sneakers and school shoes during school months and sandles in the summer. I had gotten my sandles early that year and gave them to a girl in my class who had old tattered and too small of shoes. I felt such deep compassion towards her. I got a huge spanking that day when I went home in her old shoes. BUT.. it was the start of much to come. I don't have the means to travel on missions trips but I can pray. I have raised one son who has no cares for worldly materials, but is waiting with his wife to find out what 3rd world country they will be heading towards next. I have been blessed with another child who started serving in a nursing home at age 7. For the past 2 years or more she has been serving in a homeless shelter 1x per month. She is also bitten by the compassion bug. NOT everyone has the ability to go overseas, Hope, but we are all called to pray and do what we can to live out Christ in the lives of others. How beautiful for you that you have already learned that you are blessed with the spiritual gift of Mercy, that you already know that God is using and growing you in such dailiness of life. I encourage you to find a good mentor and bible study to help direct you in the exciting paths of ministry that the Lord has for you. Blessings to you marky Wow..
I can completely relate to Hope. I knew something was different when I was in early elementary school. We got 3 pairof shoes per year. Sneakers and school shoes during school months and sandles in the summer. I had gotten my sandles early that year and gave them to a girl in my class who had old tattered and too small of shoes. I felt such deep compassion towards her. I got a huge spanking that day when I went home in her old shoes. BUT.. it was the start of much to come.
I don’t have the means to travel on missions trips but I can pray. I have raised one son who has no cares for worldly materials, but is waiting with his wife to find out what 3rd world country they will be heading towards next.
I have been blessed with another child who started serving in a nursing home at age 7. For the past 2 years or more she has been serving in a homeless shelter 1x per month. She is also bitten by the compassion bug.
NOT everyone has the ability to go overseas, Hope, but we are all called to pray and do what we can to live out Christ in the lives of others.
How beautiful for you that you have already learned that you are blessed with the spiritual gift of Mercy, that you already know that God is using and growing you in such dailiness of life.
I encourage you to find a good mentor and bible study to help direct you in the exciting paths of ministry that the Lord has for you.
Blessings to you
marky

]]> By: Mixed Bag Monday http://wearethatfamily.com/2010/06/the-email-i-dont-know-how-to-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-51839 Mixed Bag Monday Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:02:44 +0000 http://wearethatfamily.com/?p=2349#comment-51839 [...] The Email I Don’t Know How to Answer – I love Kristen’s heart for the poor and downtrodden and I love that this reader is following in her footsteps! [...] [...] The Email I Don’t Know How to Answer – I love Kristen’s heart for the poor and downtrodden and I love that this reader is following in her footsteps! [...]

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