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Pastimes : Ask God -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jane Hafker who wrote (9547)	11/24/1997 12:37:00 AM
From: MSB	Respond to of 39621

So the Jane Hafker thread is a nawda(no way)? Just do it, then I won't have to feel like a liar for posting more here in the last two weeks then I did in the previous nine months, and you won't have to wonder if conversations of this type are appropriate. A little history. When I first came to SI it was for the very same reasons you did except I wasn't looking to start a web page or anything like that. I was looking to get rich. Being the slightly curious person I am, I finally looked into the Coffee Shop and found the Ask God thread. I used to read it like some people read a daily devotional. I even got mad one time and made the comment that shouldn't the focus be on God and not what computer to buy or whatever it was that set me off at the time. Well, needless to say, I got set straight on that little matter. I even carried on e-mail for a time with David Fisk and was trying, more like hoping, he was somehow going to convince me to get back on the horse sort of speak. He didn't, but it wasn't because of anything he did or didn't do. I make reference to David periodically because I think he is a wonderful child of God, and I have a lot of respect for him. Last I knew, he was having some medical problems. I hope, as I always have, that he is doing well. He really is a wonderful human being. But I got burned out on hoping, basically decided I just didn't care about what happened/happens to my own soul and wandered elsewhere. Now you may be wondering, why would I care then about how others feel in angst about God? Remember Lazarrus (is it zz or rr), he realized he had made a huge mistake how his life pertained to God and wanted to warn his brothers not to make the same mistake. Call me Lazarrus. I don't want others to make the same mistakes I've made because, like you, I know what the Truth is. So if I find someone somewhere asking a question of such things pertaining to God, then I somehow feel indebted to find someone else to answer their questions. I consider a christian as one who actively follows after the heart of Christ, and I don't, so for me to answer questions pertaining to Christ makes me a hypocrite. I don't want that context to be felt by another or essentially I've made worse what I intended to make better. But, lastly, I ain't dead yet so I still think there is hope . . . even for me. Hope yours and everyone else's is a good week and I'll talk at ya next weekend provided there is anything to talk about. Jane, you're like so cool, I'm glad you're here.