Comments on: I Hate My Brain http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/2009/11/i-hate-my-brain/ Carlos Whittaker's Weblog Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:32:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Steve http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/2009/11/i-hate-my-brain/#comment-311309 Steve Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:17:01 +0000 http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/?p=8923#comment-311309 amen I used to think I had a brain and knew how to use it Now, I wish it'd just shut the $@#* up. amen

I used to think I had a brain and knew how to use it

Now, I wish it’d just shut the $@#* up.

]]> By: Heather C. http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/2009/11/i-hate-my-brain/#comment-311206 Heather C. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:29:31 +0000 http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/?p=8923#comment-311206 remember it was adam and eve's "fault" for our fall from grace because they were "thinking"! Oh how I wish at night i could shut off the thinking...even for a few hours to get some sleep! I have to remind myself that it is not the material things (that I can not give my kids) that are going to matter in human kinds' race but the love, snuggles, and sharing God's message that will sustain us even when all we eat are sandwiches (gotta love a good sandwich!). Prayin' for us all to have peace of mind, peace of heart tonight! remember it was adam and eve’s “fault” for our fall from grace because they were “thinking”! Oh how I wish at night i could shut off the thinking…even for a few hours to get some sleep! I have to remind myself that it is not the material things (that I can not give my kids) that are going to matter in human kinds’ race but the love, snuggles, and sharing God’s message that will sustain us even when all we eat are sandwiches (gotta love a good sandwich!). Prayin’ for us all to have peace of mind, peace of heart tonight!

]]> By: Carrie http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/2009/11/i-hate-my-brain/#comment-311178 Carrie Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:47:50 +0000 http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/?p=8923#comment-311178 Hard fight lately. My battle is what God has placed in my heart regarding ministry, a family, and where God's leading me is a lie. I was just telling someone today that if someone asked me what God was doing in my life I'd have to say "It's weird. He's leading somewhere in small steps but I don't know where." And I have to follow Him and not believe what my brain is telling me which is "You're crazy and you haven't heard from God." Hard fight lately. My battle is what God has placed in my heart regarding ministry, a family, and where God’s leading me is a lie. I was just telling someone today that if someone asked me what God was doing in my life I’d have to say “It’s weird. He’s leading somewhere in small steps but I don’t know where.” And I have to follow Him and not believe what my brain is telling me which is “You’re crazy and you haven’t heard from God.”

]]> By: Kirk http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/2009/11/i-hate-my-brain/#comment-311159 Kirk Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:43:26 +0000 http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/?p=8923#comment-311159 This has been a difficult fight recently. I suppose anytime you try to leave behind the mediocre for something more it's going to come about. I want to be a provider and a husband, but haunted by a history of settling for what was good enough and would get me by has left me without any idea how the Lord will use what I'm offering to bring this dream to pass. But I also realize I"m in no position to pursue until the Lord makes some changes to my circumstances. So wrestling with unempolyment, self employment, and a myriad of skills and joys that generally don't pay, I'm waiting to see how God answers prayer. In the meantime, just trying to remain utterly faithful to what He's given me to do right now, and praying the truth of Psalm 37:4 and Matthew 6:33. Thanks for the encouragement of shared struggle! This has been a difficult fight recently. I suppose anytime you try to leave behind the mediocre for something more it’s going to come about. I want to be a provider and a husband, but haunted by a history of settling for what was good enough and would get me by has left me without any idea how the Lord will use what I’m offering to bring this dream to pass. But I also realize I”m in no position to pursue until the Lord makes some changes to my circumstances. So wrestling with unempolyment, self employment, and a myriad of skills and joys that generally don’t pay, I’m waiting to see how God answers prayer. In the meantime, just trying to remain utterly faithful to what He’s given me to do right now, and praying the truth of Psalm 37:4 and Matthew 6:33.

Thanks for the encouragement of shared struggle!

]]> By: Jeff Somers http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/2009/11/i-hate-my-brain/#comment-311100 Jeff Somers Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:11:16 +0000 http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/?p=8923#comment-311100 Have my own daily fights with my brain, too...best answer I've found comes from Eldredge: "The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it." Keep banging away. Have my own daily fights with my brain, too…best answer I’ve found comes from Eldredge:

“The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.”

Keep banging away.

]]> By: Shellie (baylormum) http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/2009/11/i-hate-my-brain/#comment-311011 Shellie (baylormum) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:43:19 +0000 http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/?p=8923#comment-311011 It took addiction and recovery for me to regain that trust in myself. Addiction tries so hard to trick our mind into making the irrational rational. I have regained so much of myself back. I do it just one day at a time. I know that sounds cliche, but it's true. I cannot look back & 2nd guess myself. I cannot look forward too far, because it isn't here & now yet. I only have today. Start to finish. Listen to your heart, Los. I believe you are. It took a "sabbatical" from the tech stuff. A whole month you were gone. You came back with a plan. Heather & your kids love you & look to you for guidance. It is a team effort. God to you to your family. You did that. You included God. That makes all the difference. Stand your ground. You ARE doing it for the Glory of God. :) It took addiction and recovery for me to regain that trust in myself. Addiction tries so hard to trick our mind into making the irrational rational. I have regained so much of myself back. I do it just one day at a time. I know that sounds cliche, but it’s true. I cannot look back & 2nd guess myself. I cannot look forward too far, because it isn’t here & now yet. I only have today. Start to finish. Listen to your heart, Los. I believe you are. It took a “sabbatical” from the tech stuff. A whole month you were gone. You came back with a plan. Heather & your kids love you & look to you for guidance. It is a team effort. God to you to your family. You did that. You included God. That makes all the difference. Stand your ground. You ARE doing it for the Glory of God. :)

]]> By: Darcyjo http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/2009/11/i-hate-my-brain/#comment-311010 Darcyjo Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:35:05 +0000 http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/?p=8923#comment-311010 Thanks for saying this, Los. I'm in my senior year of college, starting my grad school applications and trying to keep my grades up, and my brain is chanting "you can't DO this, fool!" Where God guides, He will provide. Keep on going, and so will I. Thanks for saying this, Los. I’m in my senior year of college, starting my grad school applications and trying to keep my grades up, and my brain is chanting “you can’t DO this, fool!”
Where God guides, He will provide. Keep on going, and so will I.

]]> By: natalie http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/2009/11/i-hate-my-brain/#comment-311004 natalie Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:30:00 +0000 http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/?p=8923#comment-311004 LOS this is REAL and this is TRUTH and those two things are unparalleled in this world so you keep chasing the good things and that's all that that brain of yours will be able to know. Of course with the proper dose of reminders. Peace. LOS this is REAL and this is TRUTH and those two things are unparalleled in this world so you keep chasing the good things and that’s all that that brain of yours will be able to know.

Of course with the proper dose of reminders.

Peace.

]]> By: Scott Weller http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/2009/11/i-hate-my-brain/#comment-310995 Scott Weller Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:05:15 +0000 http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/?p=8923#comment-310995 I left a full-time job to pursue a dream and feel the same way. I know that God is in this but it's still hard. Thank you I left a full-time job to pursue a dream and feel the same way. I know that God is in this but it’s still hard. Thank you

]]> By: Bianca Juarez http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/2009/11/i-hate-my-brain/#comment-310985 Bianca Juarez Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:52:19 +0000 http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/?p=8923#comment-310985 Word! Hold onto J29:11 :) Word!

Hold onto J29:11 :)

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