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Barbara
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| Sex: | female |
| Age: | 40 |
| Location: | Reidsville
Georgia United States |
| Message: | Hello! |
| Purpose: | Penpal |
| Hobbies: | Reading
Writing
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| Profession: | Nurse |
| Language: | English
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I did a Google search once to find any references to a theologically
conservative divorced woman and was not surprised to find that such a
phrase doesnt exist out there in cyberspace. Ah, well. Such is life.
Registered nurse for 20 years, mom of two wonderful teenagers (both
athletes) and Im a rabid sideline Football Mom :)
Most of my reading
alongside the Bible is in the writings of Charles Spurgeon and A.W. Tozer,
along with Blue Letter Bible for commentaries. I am not a social Christian,
I have been blessed with the genuine supernatural work of God in replacing
my old heart and spirit with new and am being progressively sanctified. I
am the Samaritan woman at the well, Mary Magdalene, the woman who washed
Jesus feet with her tears, at the foot of the cross and searching the empty
tomb. I seek the kind of friendship and companionship that Tozer stated is
so difficult to find when he wrote:
The loneliness of the Christian
results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often
take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that
of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for
companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his
longings, his aspirations, his absorption in the love of Christ: and
because within his circle of friends there are so few who share his inner
experiences he is forced to walk alone.
The unsatisfied longings of the
prophets for human understanding caused them to cry out in their
complaint, and even our Lord Himself suffered in the same way.
The man
[or woman] who has passed on into the divine Presence in actual inner
experience will not find many who understand him. He finds few who care to
talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often
silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk. For this
he earns the reputation of being dull and over-serious, so he is avoided
and the gulf between him and society widens.
He searches for friends
upon whose garments he can detect the smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia
out of the ivory palaces, and finding few or none he, like Mary of old,
keeps these things in his heart.
It is this very loneliness that throws
him back upon God. His inability to find human companionship drives him to
seek in God what he can find nowhere else.
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