When malicious gossip or slander is passed along, the humanity of three people is thereby diminished .... the one who repeats the gossip, the one who listens to the gossip, and the one who is the subject of the gossip. When a person refrains from gossiping or tale-bearing, the angels rejoice from up above.
Posted by Linds on 11/15/2002, 4:37 am The wheels of life are turning And though it's hard discerning And as we go though highs and lows Chorus This roller coaster ride of life So when I hear you calling And as you go through highs and lows Chorus
Ok, don't anybody fall off your chair in shock at seeing a post from me after so long. It's me, it really is, I promise. Boy this life keeps you hopping doesn't it? Total insanity! I've moved in with 2 very awesome friends, and am in the process of doing the job hunting thing. The move I had to make was not planned on my part, but nonetheless, God worked it out, as He always does. In the midst of all the stress of having to move and not knowing WHERE I was going to have to move and with whom I'd be living with, I was faced with almost losing my brother. He's obviously doing some awesome ministry work for the Lord because his life has been in danger for the last 3 years now. I hve no doubt that Satan is trying to dispose of him. This latest event happened when he was chaning a flat tire and a guy arguing on his cell phone, not using the hands free equipment ran off the freeway and headed straight for my brother. It smashed the car like an acordion and there's no logical explanation as to why he's alive, because it was God and God defies logical explanations. Before that, he was being treated for, what the doctors think is an undiagnosed, latent case of Cystic Fibrosis. If this weren't enough, I was faced with losing a friendship I held very dear, because they had married someone who is very well known, or at least, is beginning to be. That's all foreign to me because I knew both of them before they really *made it*, so to have this ego trip pulled has just been like, 'ummm...ok....' For people that have really known me, or know me now, they know that this whole concept of riding on people's coat tails because they are 'famous' is beyond absurd to me. I don't make a practice of liking people for what they do as a job, I like them for who they are as a person and how they treat people. Obviously this set of friends wasn't convinced of that for whatever reason, or they were believing their own press. Who knows? So that was another downer, because I had no idea something like that was around the corner. Along the way of all these events unfolding, I realized I wasn't SuperWoman. Shocking to everyone, right? *g* Ya know what else I discovered? Life was a rollercoaster and I was EXHAUSTED from the ride! I literally had just said that exact phrase to someone, then I got in my car. 4Him, it seems, has this absolutely fantastic song called "Ride of Life" and it fits where my life has been lately, so I'm going to share it with you right now. If you're going through the roller coaster ride of life, take comfort in the words of this song.
I feel I'm rolling down this trach
And I know down deep inside my heart
I can't look back.
all of the fiction from the fact
You have led me to this truth and
we have made a pact.
and all that's in between
It's good to know we're not alone
on this big scream machine.
Lifts you up and lets you down
This roller coaster ride of life
spins you round and round and round.
Heaven knows, where ever you go
I will be right by your side
On this roller coaster ride
Roller coaster ride of life
Roller coaster ride of life
'cause you have hit your alltime low
I will hold you to My side and
I won't let you go.
And when it seems you're falling
'cause life has got you on a roll
I will take the wheel and hit the brakes
We'll take it slow.
and all that's in between
The Lord alone is in control
of this big screen machine.
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WHOEVER GUARDS HIS MOUTH AND TONGUE KEEPS HIS SOUL FROM TROUBLES (Proverbs 21:23)