tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1469962485360170433.post5127436822570603139..comments2024-03-13T09:08:42.601-05:00Comments on My Forest Cathedral: We Are So Preciously Loved by GodAmeliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093408888499365118noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1469962485360170433.post-35287644659874518532013-11-08T15:50:33.387-06:002013-11-08T15:50:33.387-06:00It's so good to hear from you Ann! What a gift...It's so good to hear from you Ann! What a gift to my heart. : ) The Chinese people are so wonderful, I can certainly see why they would feel the way they do towards you and your family! They know the real deal it seems. There is a Chinese mission in the city and it is such a blessing. It's so wonderful what your family is doing!<br /><br />I'm so glad you could relate to what I was sharing on the churches. Our hearts are broken, I think mine is the most, we had so much hope for this one place but it seems they are all filled up, they have no room for new people so to speak. It's a cliquish town in this particular spot it seems and I'm sure we are perceived as outsiders. I understand about the tea time your family experienced, there was a ladies banquet and two of my daughters and I were at a big round banquet table all by ourselves while all the tables around us in this huge activity room were filled and rolling. I knew it was going to be an odd experience when we were signing in and the young sign-up girl loudly said to the other end of sign-up girls.. "They're write-ins" ...and that is just what we felt like. Oh there are other things too we aren't understanding at this place, but I won't bore with detail. I just pray that hearts will be changed. I suppose time will tell but we are prayerfully studying other options until God shows us further. It's a toughie but I know God will show us what to do eventually, in the meantime I just talk to the Lord about it. I think maybe some saints of God aren't listening to His promptings sometimes? Sometimes church people are so busy evangelizing they aren't ministering or welcoming those right under their noses. <br /><br />I'm so glad you enjoy the imperfectness of my little blog here, you said it right, I too fear for young women who are even unconsciously comparing their homes to others "perfect-beautiful" homes on those blogs. When we were first married I would beat myself up thinking there was something wrong with me, that I couldn't keep things "perfecto". I had inlaws who seemed so very perfecto with their homes, and I would overhear them speak of other people who's homes were not up to snuff, I would think to myself.. "oh my goodness, mine looks the same!" Perhaps that is why I major on that dust and dirty dishes as a blessing, perhaps that dust and leftover dishes will minister to a sweet heart out there and they'll let go and enjoy life a bit? There are so many things young ladies aren't being told and my heart breaks for them. I know there is a remnant that want the Truth.<br /><br />God bless you Ann hugely! Your comment here ministered to my heart greatly. Greatly. <3<br /><br />Ameliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09093408888499365118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1469962485360170433.post-7756184259553260582013-11-06T18:06:50.278-06:002013-11-06T18:06:50.278-06:00Oh this is such a lovely quotation you have shared...Oh this is such a lovely quotation you have shared 'Preciously loved by God'.. I love that, I will remind myself and others today that they are preciously loved. I am sorry I have not commented for such a long time. I have found little time to blog this year but the sweet ladies I have met thanks to my little and sadly neglected blog who are kindred spirits I am so grateful to the Lord for and I have not forgotten them. One reason I have been away from the blog is because we have been busy with hospitality to Chinese students this past year and in recent weeks we have befriended so many and welcomed them into our home. It's been a ministry our whole family can join in together and it has been a delight. They have responded with so much joy to the invitation to come and spend time with a family and one sweet girl told me I reminded her of her mother who she is missing so much. My heart melted!<br />Oh yes Amelia, I know what it is like to walk into a church and have no one speak to you. At one church we visited we went and had a cup of tea in the hall at the close of a service and even then people just stared at us and ignored us. It was a long time ago but the memory of not feeling welcomed remained with me and needless to say we did not return to that church! I am also glad you shared about your home. I think it must be difficult for some younger women who visit the 'beautiful blogs' where every picture is styled and it all looks like perfection - not a laundry basket in sight, not one with laundry in anyhow. I do hope they realize that they are only being given a glimpse of a life, that in reality we have laundry piles and things out of place - well I do for sure!<br />May God bless you and your beautiful family. Your girl's sweet and Godly spirits shine through your blog and I enjoy reading about your life at home.Ann at eightacresofedenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15524581927752695509noreply@blogger.com