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SilentDawning wrote:

Looking forward to seeing your avatar should you decide to get one.

I wouldn’t have a clue about how to get one!! I’ll work it out but the pressure’s on now! Thanks SD. I did want to support you personally on one of your recent posts though didn’t really feel that I could add anything which would be constructive. I’m moved at this moment (I’ve learnt to follow the 2nd prompt when I ignore the 1st!) to express my compassion to you and let you know that I am often over-sensitive, sometimes misunderstood and love way too hard. I can dwell on things to the point of depression but always pick myself up afer I focus on the good things and apply perspective. Kia Kaha SD (Be strong).

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Martine wrote:

I’ve really been focusing on honestly accepting others as they are. It seems to help those little doubts in my mind.

While you’re doing that, don’t forget to honestly accept yourself aswell. Still early days for me but some of your post replicated some of the turmoil I have recently felt. I found that if I quietly got to know and love “me” again, I wasn’t so het up about making choices out of spite. Now I ask myself – where will that lead me?? Towards Christ, or away?? Following this philosophy has seen me lighten up on “the rules” and so far I’m striking what’s for me, a happy balance.

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SamBee wrote:

All I can say is, what the hey?! I appreciate thousands of people speak Maori, and there are various immigrants, especially Polynesians in NZ, but this really puzzled me. The majority of people in NZ speak English… so what’s going on here?

Thanks SamBee – that was a really good laugh out loud moment! I had read that but like cwald did not pay it much mind at the time…the rose-tinted lenses have definitely come off since then.

Thanks for the welcome everyone!

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SamBee wrote:

I hope you don’t mind me asking, but are you male or female?

Kia Ora SamBee.

I’m female btw. My husband and I actually just got back from the Chapel where we gave a careers talk to the young men. We both enjoyed the evening and so that was a positive tick in the “what do I like about church” box. Funnily enough I agreed to the assignment straight after posting my intro blog – I don’t know if I would have been so receptive to the assignment had I not made a start in reconciling things.

Thank you for your kind words.

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Old-Timer wrote:

Maybe it will help to remember that in most cases it really isn’t hypocrisy as much as it simply is a condition of mortality.

I almost didn’t put in that bit about being “swept up in hypocrisy” as I anticipated a response in particular from you Ray but then I considered that I need to get out of the fake until I make mode and be real…that means I must bare my sometimes negative outlook and work through things in a more positive and Christlike manner. Thanks Ray – I REALLY like this and will share it with my family.

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