The Sadness of a Testimony

[Mercy]

Originally Posted by Elizabeth

I hope you are going to hold that over my head, I did say I was sorry for offending you.

Hahahahahaha....you are certainly not the only person in my life to say that!

It didnt offend me, I was certain I would hear it at least once when I decided to post. It was expected.

You are forgiven, but I do hope you "think" about it before you say that to someone else. I think sometimes (we are all guilty of it) we say things without being compassionate. There is more than one way to say what we believe is the truth.

I grew up in the church, and from day one of the wreck that is all I have heard. How this happened to me for some magnificent wonderful display of God, without any consideration to what I might actually be going through.

Sometimes I just need to deal with the human emotions of it, beyond the "purpose".

I hope you can understand that.

[Elizabeth]

Originally Posted by Mercy

Hahahahahaha....you are certainly not the only person in my life to say that!

It didnt offend me, I was certain I would hear it at least once when I decided to post. It was expected.

You are forgiven, but I do hope you "think" about it before you say that to someone else. I think sometimes (we are all guilty of it) we say things without being compassionate. There is more than one way to say what we believe is the truth.

I grew up in the church, and from day one of the wreck that is all I have heard. How this happened to me for some magnificent wonderful display of God, without any consideration to what I might actually be going through.

Sometimes I just need to deal with the human emotions of it, beyond the "purpose".

I hope you can understand that.

I am sorry I ordinary do not say those things to people on AFF- I am a pastors wife and deal with a large group of people coming out of recovery. So I am pretty honest with them for the most part but I can see that your situation is different than theirs, I guess I was in recovery mode.-it works with them believe it or not.

I will pray that you find some 'safe' people to talk too- a counselor. It was a very traumatic event.

Does seem like a weird thing to tell someone that God has a marvelous plan out of everything, but I think people just do not know what to say many times and end up saying the wrong thing trying to say the right thing.