Re: Rejection/Isolation/Pain (Tricia)

[Guest guest]

Tricia.... good to hear from you.

Thanks for your precious words of encouragement. Yes I would like to keep

in touch with you Tricia. You may also contact me personally. But I would

like you to put on the email which group you are active in, as I am involved

with 2 support groups and a personal email Outreach. I have to really watch

that I don't use any copyright material in another group by mistake. And

it is helpful to keep the people fixed in my mind and heart.....

I wouldlike to respond to a small portion of your post. You touched the

problem (with most Churches today) when you talked about not being able to

get ministry and loving support in your church. My heart truly does go out

to others like those of us in this group who are Christians, but we have to

go outside the church to find support and ministry. But you know sweetie

that is nothing new....Our Blessed Savior was unable to heal and teach in

the Temple where the Pharisees were in control. (Hum) The Savior walked

among the people...folk like you and me...who were hurting and who were

being fleeced and put in bondage to the teaching that were contrary to the

words of the Master.

I always thought the Body of Messiah was to be a 'hospital' where we went to

get fixed..mind, body, and spirit. But over the years I angrily saw many

leave the services having heard a watered down version of the Savior's

teachings, and not having their needs met by the Body. I believe that

Ephesians 4 describes the way the Body is to function under Messiah......

each of us is to be a Joint that is supposed to be tightly fitted together

with every other Joint in the Body. When one Joint is hurting, dislocated,

etc. the whole Body suffers. No wonder the Sheep are exiting in flocks for

those who offer Joint support. When we as eyes, ears, hands, feet, bone,

function the way we were created to all in the Body will see the power of

the Healer and Deliverer in their midst. HalleluYah.

In the meantime, Praise His Name, we have men and women with compassion and

insight into our physical problems who have taken the time to put together

website email support groups where we can get our needs met. There is a

tremendous amount of work that goes into maintaining a Web site, I am sure,

and we need to lift those up who manage them.

In Him I live and move and have my being

Norma

> Hi Norma,

> My name is Tricia, and I have been to some of the places you have been,

it's

> a shame we have to seek out the help and comfort of those we hardly know,

but

> they do know what we are going thru, because they are going thru it

> themselves, or understand where we are coming from because we all have in

> common many of the same symptoms, one of which is pain. My husband and I

have been in the ministry for over 25 yrs. My husband was either Assoc.

> pastor or Youth Pastor and Song Leader,SS Superd, He is an ordanined

> pastor, but as of now he does pulpit supply work only. Part of that is

due

> to me in the fact that I could not be what the people (women) of the

church

> thought I should be. I couldn't hold down a class, be in charge of a

group

> be there everytime the doors were open etc. because we would never know

when

>

>

[Guest guest]

NORMA, THIS IS TRICIA, AND I BELONG TO THE EGROUPS-SOFTHUGS, FIBRO-THRIVE,

FIBBROMYALGIA-CFS OR JUST FIBROMYALGIA. IF YOU WANT TO E-MAIL ME PERSONALLY

AT aknaaynay98@aol just be sure to put one of the groups names, if I don't

know who it is I don't answer, I HOPE THIS NOTE FINDS YOU DOING WELL, WE ARE

GETTING OURSELVES READY TO BE SNOWED AND ICED IN FOR CHRISTMAS, SO MAY HAVE

TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS FOR NEW YEARS. LOL MY YOUNGEST SON AND I BOTH HAVE THE

FLU, IT'S NOT LIKE YOU ALREADY ACHE, THEN GET THE FLU ON TOP OF IT, THIS IS

THE FIRST TIME I HAVE BEEN UP TODAY, THOT IT WOULD DO ME SOME GOOD TO HEAR

FROM MY FIBRO-FRIENDS. HUGS AND PRAYERS TO YOU AND TO YOUR FAMILY FOR THE

HOLIDAY, HOPE THEY WILL BE HAPPY ONES FOR ALL.