Comments on: Empty Nest: Season of Change http://powertochange.com Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:32:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: <span class='mentorBadge' title='Jamie is an official Power to Change mentor.' >Jamie</span> http://powertochange.com/experience/family/emptynest/comment-page-1/#comment-261596 Jamie Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:02:41 +0000 http://thelife.com/?page_id=5542#comment-261596 Hi Deanna, isn't it interesting how life transitions can be full of potential and hope but also scary and dangerous. I love your aspiration to have "a concrete life in Jesus Christ". So many times I forget that Jesus has a plan for how He wants me to live every minute of every day. He knows the things I need to learn, the things He needs me to do, and the attitudes he wants me to have. I think the key to that 'concrete life in Jesus' comes from nurturing an awareness that Jesus has such a plan for me. If I really believe that, then I am going to need to keep my eyes, ears and heart focussed on Him so that when He shows me what He wants, I am ready to respond in obedience. I love the picture of a sheepdog whose attention is firmly fixed on the shepherd. As soon as the shepherd gives the command the sheepdog springs into action but still with his attention on the shepherd to that when he raises his hand or gives a whistle the dog is able to make that quick, mid-course correction. If I had that kind of single-minded focus I know I would get in much less trouble. Hi Deanna, isn’t it interesting how life transitions can be full of potential and hope but also scary and dangerous. I love your aspiration to have “a concrete life in Jesus Christ”. So many times I forget that Jesus has a plan for how He wants me to live every minute of every day. He knows the things I need to learn, the things He needs me to do, and the attitudes he wants me to have. I think the key to that ‘concrete life in Jesus’ comes from nurturing an awareness that Jesus has such a plan for me. If I really believe that, then I am going to need to keep my eyes, ears and heart focussed on Him so that when He shows me what He wants, I am ready to respond in obedience. I love the picture of a sheepdog whose attention is firmly fixed on the shepherd. As soon as the shepherd gives the command the sheepdog springs into action but still with his attention on the shepherd to that when he raises his hand or gives a whistle the dog is able to make that quick, mid-course correction. If I had that kind of single-minded focus I know I would get in much less trouble.

]]> By: Deanna http://powertochange.com/experience/family/emptynest/comment-page-1/#comment-249954 Deanna Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:23:03 +0000 http://thelife.com/?page_id=5542#comment-249954 Dear Ladd, My daughter who is 18 will be leaving for the Navy, October 2011 and my son who is 19 will be leaving for the same branch in April 2012. As time is getting close for my daughter to leave, I am going through many changes in trusting God with the fears, hopes, new desires and the ridding of old desires that seems to becoming 3D at everyturn of thought. Sometimes I feel at a lost on how to pray, how to plan, how to conversate, where to live, etc. I do not know how to begin. I want a conrete live in Jesus Christ, I've tried many things that has endangered my life and my children, no more- out of loneliness and boredom, go back to these dead things that is appearing in a different glittering light or perspective. I have no friends what soever, how ever I really believe despite of my struggles to believe that God is working out his perfect plan for me and my children. Your testimony and confession was very encouraging to read. By God's grace and providence I hope to have friend of like mindness and spirit. Be Bless in your walk and continue to share. Dear Ladd,

My daughter who is 18 will be leaving for the Navy, October 2011 and my son who is 19 will be leaving for the same branch in April 2012. As time is getting close for my daughter to leave, I am going through many changes in trusting God with the fears, hopes, new desires and the ridding of old desires that seems to becoming 3D at everyturn of thought. Sometimes I feel at a lost on how to pray, how to plan, how to conversate, where to live, etc. I do not know how to begin. I want a conrete live in Jesus Christ, I’ve tried many things that has endangered my life and my children, no more- out of loneliness and boredom, go back to these dead things that is appearing in a different glittering light or perspective. I have no friends what soever, how ever I really believe despite of my struggles to believe that God is working out his perfect plan for me and my children. Your testimony and confession was very encouraging to read. By God’s grace and providence I hope to have friend of like mindness and spirit. Be Bless in your walk and continue to share.

]]>