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A series of short writings - 6/13/2009 7:10:04 AM
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RedeemedinCHRIST
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Hello everyone and GOD BLESS!!!!
Over the years I've written enough for probably a book or two, mostly to encourage, confront, reach out to the lost, etc.
Since I found this, I thought I'd share them here and receive your feedback. I'll probably have a new thread for each writing with the same intro like I've just written here.
Note: My biggest concern with anything I write, is that it matches the word of GOD. If it EVER does not match up with GOD's teachings let me know your thoughts and for the reader, stick to what GOD has already said in the Bible...I'm as fallible as the next man. (Also, some writings I've edited more than others so excuse if some of this is either hard to read, follow, etc)
Title: The Lost Interview
Background: I wrote this as if someone came across part of an interview with someone special (WINK). It starts abruptly but was my attempt to be creative and try to explain a few things about our LORD.
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…there is no pain in the way you think of it, the way you actually feel it yourself, but there is something past pain that you just can’t understand yourself.
How could I even explain it? You all live in moments…many, in search of the next moment as if it were a drug, but I can see it all…always, it never stops. While you are often concerned with what is directly in front of you I am constantly calling out in hope for a response because I know the future is eternal.
Well, what is the most difficult?
Simple, teaching a finite mind to be honest with itself and recognize the reality that life is a lot more than what it has settled for. I mean, how would you teach someone to reason with you when they even lie to themselves?
If they can look in a mirror and stare into their own eyes yet lie about their own condition how would you get past that? What would you say to that person, what could you show them, how would you reason with such a person?
So, how is anyone rescued then? It seems the odds are stacked against you?
Again, you are trying to understand me within your own reason…within your own limitations. How would you explain to your child that you can do mathematics in your mind, that you can draw from an endless pool of experience that they cannot even imagine or that their physical limitations do not apply to you?
It’s funny in a way, because I’m trying to create an example that you could understand and apply yet how do I explain that if it is…it is because it’s rooted in me, if it was…it was created by me, if it will be…it will be because I have spoken it into existence?
So, you speak of odd’s and impossibilities? I am neither limited by odd’s nor do I comprehend the word impossible because frankly it does not apply.
I have to admit, this is hard for me to understand and follow at times.
Exactly, remember the previous questions you asked…was I lying? But look, why get caught up on some of these details? Why don’t we just focus on the bare minimum that is needed and wait till that day when everything will be understood and revealed?
OK, makes sense to me…if we can work at the start or the most basic we can progress forward.
Exactly, if you simply sit there and start coming up with endless questions you won’t really get anywhere because you are too busy with what you can’t comprehend to find an answer to anything. If you keep focused on what is a mile ahead of you…you just might trip over the obvious, or what is right in front of you which we can agree is a lot more important because it will affect you much sooner.
So, where do we start then? I’m all ears?
With me, but this only will work if we tackle the first issue you have. Let’s start with you…who are you, where have you come from, where are you going, and how did it all come to be? What has shaped your world…your character? Oh, and remember…let’s get this out of the way right now, I’m not asking you who you “think” you are but who you are in reality…the truth, without the smoke and mirrors you have setup around yourself to justify or excuse yourself for yourself.
Well, how can I begin to answer that if I have that problem you just told me about? If I can not even trust myself?
Exactly, and this can be frustrating…you are hopeless. Within yourself, within your own mind, your reasoning, your logic, your experience, etc…there is a common problem that keeps you hopeless.
Well, what is that?
You are fallen, imperfect, and desperately limited in every possible way. This is hard to take, but you are like an ant trying to understand the world of a human. How can you cross such a boundary? How can the man reason with a creature who is physically limited to say the least and mentally incompatible?
How can the man sit down with the ant and try to explain math, science, man’s history, man’s creations, and man’s desires, or even man’s supremacy over the ant? How can the man bridge that gap? If the man knows of imminent doom for that ant how does the man go about explaining or saving that ant from what is to come?
Again, it seems impossible?
To you it does, within you it is, but outside of you there is something greater…someone greater.....
So, that is the key…the solution to the problem. How can you see the real you to move on to the next step? First you cannot afford to allow arrogance, pride, or your own dishonesty within yourself to muddy the water here. This is too important to lie about and fail. Recognize and admit your failing, your limitations, your sins and plead for help!
But who can help?....
I think you know who or else you wouldn’t be here with me now. You think to yourself, Why ask him? Well, we know you have many man-made solutions to the common problem all men have. Why not ask the many other false characters your people have come up with? You can try them, but they do not satisfy because they are an imperfect solution created by imperfect men. They are riddled with fallacies, dishonesty, and reject simple reason. There are more than a billion other ways to answer this but I’ll challenge you with the following.
Those who honestly seek me, I will NEVER turn away…they WILL find me.....
Isn’t that a bit vague? A bit too simple or on the other hand a huge impossible task that can only lead to confusion?
Ah, again…you forget that I am unlike anything you recognize in your world? Your ways are not my ways, your limitations are not mine.
Do you think if you honestly seek me that I will not provide the ways to find me? Again…if you maintain that recognition of your fallen state and can MAINTAIN that honest approach with me, do you think I’ll turn you away or leave you confused?
No child, never…I’ve been pleading with your people since the beginning. I know it can be tough to trust in this manner especially living in the world you do but if I was not trustworthy the sad story of your world would have ended at the first failure.
So, now I ask you…if I’ve given you all this time why would I not keep my word now?
Tell me, does a good father not hope a lost or disobedient child returns back to his home? Does he not sit by the window hoping for his return? Doesn’t he reflect on his child when he was innocent in his youth and his heart bleeds tears with the thought that he could be separated from his child for the rest of his existence?
Doesn’t the father, go around looking for his child…chasing after him and doing everything he can to find him and bring him back home?
Even you can understand this example can’t you?
Yes, it’s a heartbreaking thing to even consider. I have to admit I didn’t expect this interview to go this way. All I can do right now is take a deep breath and take it all in, my heart seems to understand something my mind is struggling with…or should I say, maybe…my struggle is with myself?
Hmmm, how do I let that go?....
There isn’t a specific way, everyone comes to me in different ways that I have prepared in advance for. This is not by chance that you sit here with me now…I’ve been working unseen for years, calling out to you and softening your heart for this very moment. Trust me now…I am unlike anyone you know, unlike any experience you have had up to this point in your life, I AM…....
Last question, why do you do it?
Oh child of mine…I have seen this day, but it warms my heart reaching this point with you now. It’s simple really, you are mine…I am your true father, your creator and it’s been my desire since I knitted you in your mother’s womb to bring my child back home.
Why you ask…because my power is rooted in something your world often misunderstands and misuses, LOVE, my love is the origin of all that is good in this universe and a big part of my love goes unreturned by my most precious children.
So, it’s simple really…I love you more than you can comprehend, I am your father in heaven and I want you back with me.
Don’t forget, this moment was prepared long ago…even before your birth. I came to my children long ago with tears and supplication, dying to pay for what you could never pay for, saving you back on that cross and waiting for you till this very day.
This is just the beginning of your overall healing…but, welcome…I AM....glad to finally met with you.
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RE: A series of short writings - 6/18/2009 1:38:36 PM
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RedeemedinCHRIST
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Anyone....anyone....anyone...... 
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RE: A series of short writings - 6/19/2009 11:59:46 PM
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slushie
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Beautiful. That's all I can say. Beautiful. Keep writing!
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RE: A series of short writings - 6/29/2009 6:52:42 PM
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RedeemedinCHRIST
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Thanks!!!! I hope I hear from a few more...
GOD BLESS!
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RE: A series of short writings - 6/29/2009 9:48:58 PM
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slushie
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Something about the last sentence... the last two ellipses points you use feel out of place. You want to emphasize something, right? To me I think it would be better if you started a new sentence after the word "Welcome."
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RE: A series of short writings - 6/30/2009 9:50:50 AM
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RedeemedinCHRIST
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quote:
This is just the beginning of your overall healing…but, welcome…I AM....glad to finally met with you.
Do you mean just this line?
What I want to highlight there is that this conversation is just the begining to santification. Also, the LORD welcoming us to the walk. Also, a play on words "I AM".....the LORD calls himself that in the OT, for example when he told Moses to tell his people that "I AM" sent him.
But, thanks for your thoughts...let's see what I can do with that.
THANKS A BUNCH!!! GOD BLESS!!!
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2 Timothy 4:2-4 Perfect verse for the times we live!
"Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of GOD?" Thomas Jefferson
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RE: A series of short writings - 6/30/2009 11:18:42 AM
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Actually, many of the uses of ellipses in your piece probably can be eliminated or replaced with other punctuation.
But I'll just address the one that slushie pointed out:
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ORIGINAL: RedeemedinCHRIST
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This is just the beginning of your overall healing…but, welcome…I AM....glad to finally met with you.
Do you mean just this line?
What I want to highlight there is that this conversation is just the begining to santification. Also, the LORD welcoming us to the walk. Also, a play on words "I AM".....the LORD calls himself that in the OT, for example when he told Moses to tell his people that "I AM" sent him.
But, thanks for your thoughts...let's see what I can do with that.
THANKS A BUNCH!!! GOD BLESS!!!
I know that in casual "conversation" on the Internet, folks use ellipses a lot to signal a pause in thought or to emphasize something, but ellipses aren't always used technically properly. I know that I do it all the time!
Here's one way to style the sentence, emphasizing what you want to stress and still adhering to grammar rules:
This is just the beginning of your overall healing… but welcome, I AM glad to finally meet with you.
* I used small caps because that's what many Bibles do to style the English for God's covenant name: YHWH. (aka, the tetragrammaton) In those Bibles, you'll see it in the Old Testament. (With this forum's formatting, I chose the font size 1 to make all-capped letters into small-capped letters.)
* The comma was misplaced. Correct placement would be after the word welcome, which functions as an introductory phrase or interjection.
* You needed the present tense -- meet -- instead of met, the past tense.
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RE: A series of short writings - 7/1/2009 1:24:33 AM
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oh man, I had a whole page written out but my computer got unplugged somehow and the battery died....so ill make a shortened response.
Brilliant work in my opinion. I do many short writings very similar to this. I often feel like the Holy Spirit is guiding me while i am writing, but I don't like to claim that just in case my writings are flawed, lol.
Anyways, awesome writings. Maybe ill get the courage to post some of my writings on here as well, but we'll see, ha.
BTW, im surprised this hasnt received more responses...
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RE: A series of short writings - 7/1/2009 1:23:17 PM
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RedeemedinCHRIST
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First, thanks for the input Slushie and yes I've gone nuts with the old.......
....lol....
Elena, I agree and I've caught myself going nuts with that stuff. Writing for the internet for so long has made it into too much of my writing. I'll update the original with your suggestions.
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ORIGINAL: tuckonline
oh man, I had a whole page written out but my computer got unplugged somehow and the battery died....so ill make a shortened response.
Brilliant work in my opinion. I do many short writings very similar to this. I often feel like the Holy Spirit is guiding me while i am writing, but I don't like to claim that just in case my writings are flawed, lol.
Anyways, awesome writings. Maybe ill get the courage to post some of my writings on here as well, but we'll see, ha.
BTW, im surprised this hasnt received more responses...
Tuck, lol, I commend you...when that happens to me I simply don't write a thing...lol, too upset about losing everything.
I agree, I can't write a thing without the inspiration but I don't say "it's from the Holy Spirit" because I'm as fallable as the next man.
Thanks for the input everyone!!! GOD BLESS
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