I am at work right now (Alpha Womens Center)...and it is completely dead. On one hand it might be good that there dont seem to be very many people in "need" of our services today. On the other hand, i know there are people out there who do need these services, and dont know we exist. Anyway, i heard something rather disturbing from one of our crisis counselors today, and i wanted to vent a little about it.

So we are a Christian non profit organization, which means when women come in here, aside from offering services to them reguarding their need, we also offer prayer and other spiritual supports. So today one of our counselors was seeing a client, and when they were done, she came out and began to explain her frustrations to me. Apparently her client was not at all interested in having a "spiritual" discussion with her, because she had prayed to God before, and never heard anything. So the counselor told me that there was nothing else she could say to her client, and that she believed that even if her client did pray, she would not receive a response, because God doesnt accept prayers from non believers. Does anyone else find this to be disturbing??

I guess i just feel like there were many other choices the counselor could have made during this session with her client. If she really does believe God doesnt hear the prayers of a non believer, then i think the very least she could have done would be to offer to pray for her, with her there. Aside from the fact that i do believe God hears the prayers of non believers, how is this woman going to pursue a relationship with God, if she is being told God doesnt want to talk to her until she completes certain steps to attain salvation? Does anyone else get what i am saying here? I guess i just find it rediculous that someone in a helping profession, at a Christian organization, is going to tell someone that they have not seen results of their prayers because God refuses to hear them. That is something i find unacceptable...and thats all i have to say about that.

Blessings.

Currently Listening Downhere By Downhere see related

So i am listening to Downhere, as you can see, and there is this song where the lyrics go something like..."You free me up to live this life, far from any earthly sense of home". I was thinking about it, and about the whole idea of freedom, and i came to the conclusion that we are only as free as we allow ourselves to be. We are completely free in Christ, but so many times when i stop and look at my life, i notice the things that have taken the place of that freedom. Situations where i have believed that i could handle something better than the One who created me, or times when i have become so wrapped up in my own life that i miss the things going on around me. Know what i mean? We can get so caught up in the business and the routine of life, that our purpose in life, what we were created to do, never gets done. We miss it.

In thinking about this, i came to the conclusion that i dont need to wait to do what i want to spend my life doing, what i believe my purpose is. I can do it now. So with that being said, i am working on opening up a non profit organization. I'm not sure of all the details yet, but i know that if God has brought me this far, He will be with me the rest of the way. With that being said, i want to encourage the rest of you to take God at His word. There is a specific purpose for you, and i would encourage you to not give up until  you have found what it is, and then give it everything you have.

Blessings friends.

Currently Listening Hello, Good Friend By The Rocket Summer see related

What do you do when everything you thought you wanted, turns out to be nothing you want anymore? When things that seemed important, mean nothing anymore?

I am restless.

I am tired.

I want something more.

Currently Listening Who We Are Instead By Jars of Clay see related

i built another temple to a stranger. i gave away my heart to the rushing wind. i set my course to run right into danger. i sought the company of fools instead of friends.

you know i've been unfaithful, with lovers in lines. while you're turning over tables, with the rage of a jealous kind. i chose the gallows to the aisle, thought that love would never find. hanging ropes will never keep you, and your love of a jealous kind. love of a jealous kind.

tryin' to jump away from the rock that keeps on spreadin'. solace in the shift of sinking sand. i'd rather feel the pain all too familiar, than be broken by a lover i dont understand. cause i dont understand.

love of a jealous kind.

one hundred other lovers, more, one hundred other alters. if i should slow my pace and finally subject me to grace, and love that shames the wise, betrays the heart deceit and lies. and breaks the back of foolish pride.

love of a jealous kind.