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<blockquote data-quote="BackintheSaddle" data-source="post: 625496" data-attributes="member: 17503"><p>Sorry it's been a hard day...it is a day that signifies 'rebirth' and it's hard not to yearn that something like that will happen to our difficult children...I've been struggling a lot with my faith given all the difficult child stuff and my husband has me watching TD Jakes...have you ever watched him? he's a very inspirational minister and one of his videos just released (on youtube) talks about the story of Jericho and how (like with a lot of stories), those who kept the faith and handed their troubles over to God, survived the best...in his sermon (he gets really dramatic and is fun to watch) for this week, he talked about how many of us are facing problems far bigger than we are...he said it a lot better than I am but basically he said that if you're struggling with something painful (and he used a son on drugs as an example), the best alternative is to get on your knees, tell God you don't know how to handle it, and to take it from you...it's not a new message but the part about letting God know <u>you don't know how to handle it</u> struck a cord with me...I'm so proud, I want to try and figure it out myself so I read all these books, and meditate and such but at the end of the day, I don't know how to handle this...how to handle my difficult child not talking to me, how to handle not seeing him, not knowing if he's ok, not understanding how things got to be this way...I said that prayer that night and then again in the morning, and you know what (this was Friday, Good Friday)?, my difficult child called me for the first time since March 5 and asked to come over and pick some things up...and then he stayed and sat and talked to us so pleasantly, it was like I was in a dream...we kept the conversation light, just catching up on each other and husband was here too...it was a lovely gift for Easter and hard not to believe it was given to me because I finally let it go, even if just for a time...that's so hard to do, that letting go and letting God...not something I'm comfortable with admitting but maybe that can help you get through the rest of today...it's helped me the past few...now the challenge is to keep it up with God and not get my hopes up too high with difficult child...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackintheSaddle, post: 625496, member: 17503"] Sorry it's been a hard day...it is a day that signifies 'rebirth' and it's hard not to yearn that something like that will happen to our difficult children...I've been struggling a lot with my faith given all the difficult child stuff and my husband has me watching TD Jakes...have you ever watched him? he's a very inspirational minister and one of his videos just released (on youtube) talks about the story of Jericho and how (like with a lot of stories), those who kept the faith and handed their troubles over to God, survived the best...in his sermon (he gets really dramatic and is fun to watch) for this week, he talked about how many of us are facing problems far bigger than we are...he said it a lot better than I am but basically he said that if you're struggling with something painful (and he used a son on drugs as an example), the best alternative is to get on your knees, tell God you don't know how to handle it, and to take it from you...it's not a new message but the part about letting God know [U]you don't know how to handle it[/U] struck a cord with me...I'm so proud, I want to try and figure it out myself so I read all these books, and meditate and such but at the end of the day, I don't know how to handle this...how to handle my difficult child not talking to me, how to handle not seeing him, not knowing if he's ok, not understanding how things got to be this way...I said that prayer that night and then again in the morning, and you know what (this was Friday, Good Friday)?, my difficult child called me for the first time since March 5 and asked to come over and pick some things up...and then he stayed and sat and talked to us so pleasantly, it was like I was in a dream...we kept the conversation light, just catching up on each other and husband was here too...it was a lovely gift for Easter and hard not to believe it was given to me because I finally let it go, even if just for a time...that's so hard to do, that letting go and letting God...not something I'm comfortable with admitting but maybe that can help you get through the rest of today...it's helped me the past few...now the challenge is to keep it up with God and not get my hopes up too high with difficult child... [/QUOTE]
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