Heeded Words

I have wondered recently why we have children in our 20-30's, which is a time when we struggle most with our own identity and life issues. Why do our children have to get the brunt of our frustration and struggles? Why are they stuck in our influence at a time when our annoyances and idiosyncrasies are overly pronounced? Is it not at this time in our children's lives that they will take on those influences and struggles? And then do they not carry on the same to pass on to their children? What is the purpose of passing on down the struggles and influences that our parents have passed on to us? Why do we as adults have to wait until our 30-and 40's to come to terms with our life to settle down and define our ideology? (exceptions excluded of course) First of all, if our children did not struggle with our influence, what would they struggle with? Can a generation address self issues at such an early age that it would no longer be passed to the next generation? If thei...

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Words have not come easy for me lately. Sometimes I think I have opened myself up, searched within, torn away the struggles so much that what is left to say? Even with others, do we not have an ulterior motive when we seek to commune with them? Perhaps I have fought to break through for so long, that existing and abiding in peace is a new thing for me. NO I don't think it is being in " lala"  land, I do abide in the present. However if I know that I can no longer change those around me nor have walls to break through (per say) then what is left to motivate me forward or maybe its inward. It is this exact place that I find myself with God. A couple of prophetic words that were given me a few years ago bring me to this very position: Elise, I want you to know, He has called you to be a worshiper of Him. To seek His face, just to rest in Him and to abide in Him. Not to be afraid of what other people think. Be drawn away, drawn into His presence, in the quietness, in th...