can you listen without force feeding me god?
@sachikobrandl (151)
United States
January 19, 2010 11:26am CST
i recently was asked by a friend how me and a man were getting along. so i shared my recent conversation with her. how he had poked around with questions at me last three years. finally a tender spot came up that i asked to be left alone till i was more confortable talking about it. well dude would leave it and pried till he heard it all. i confessed to my friend that it had stung a little to have that hurt resurface before i was ready. she laid into me about god and how i cant live in the past and he sent his son...
all this i know. we go to the same church in he same study group and she has met my son. so she knows how spiritual my life is. i acually now know what it is like to be on the reciving end of unwanted preaching. i really just was awnsering her question. we are doing good, but had a little mole hill. now she is mad at me for telling her to stop preaching to me before applying it to her own life.
any one have similar life experience?
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@sachikobrandl (151)
• United States
19 Jan 10
oh trust me i get to hear it all the time! we go country western dancing at a dance club and she gets on a roll sometimes, lol. and no wondering on my part, listening to it made me want to pull away. i would never,lol, but i understand now!
@Hatley (163773)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Jan 10
sachikobrandl hi oh yes I have. I am a Christian and I do not go to church regularly but I have my own idea of faith, I do hate to be preached at. I had a friend that had to keep on with it until finally I said, if I wanted you to preach me a sermon I wou ld instead have gone to church yesterday. She was furious at me but
I hate having someone preach and preach and preach at me, without stopping for a breath even.
@sachikobrandl (151)
• United States
19 Jan 10
understood! i love studying each morning and keeping myself saturated in gods word, so to have her stuff it down my throat when i was just awnsering a question was indeed annoying.
i noticed that the people who are "preachy" are usally having a hard time with it themselfs. they cant control and accept it in there own lifes or maybe just struggle with it so they try to fix everyone eles, for their problem!
lol. thanks for sharing!