Do you have people you can lean on and trust when times are hard? I learned yesterday that Redwoods have a sallow root system but they grow to be huge trees because their roots are intertwined. Do you have people who are intertwined with your life and help you grow, mentally and spiritually?
2007-04-23 14:34:20 · 16 answers · asked by Jan P 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
oops that's shallow...sorry.
2007-04-23 14:35:08 · update #1
Mine is family, church family, friends, some even here at YA, like my twin brother from a different mother :-)
2007-04-23 17:10:09 · update #2
For nine years I lived completely cut off from everyone and everything. (Too long to explain.)
I had no one to even call the past five years... Just me and my dogs and my TV set and my Bible.
No one - not my friends, not my family, even remembered my last 3 Birthdays.
Last year I was in the hospital 8 times - with 3 surgeries - and no one visited me.
...But for many years I have written the son of a former friend of mine who is in prison. He will be there many years. His mom has disowned him. I wrote only to witness. I send Christian articles and Jokes, etc.
He's alone AND in danger.
I finally wrote and apologized for not writing so much, and explained about my illnesses...
And HE and my old college roommate were the only one who wrote me regularly to keep apprised of my situation. Not even my own sisters did that.
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Now that I have transportation, I have started going to church regularly. God is blessing me with new friends. I have joined the Women's Missionary Union and have begun socializing with other Christian singles, and becoming involved in women's activities. God is blessing me.
But I will never forget the ones who are alone - sequestered away from the world - and how horrible it is to live day after day without another live human voice... the touch of another hand... the look of someone who actually looks you in the eye and does not turn away in indifference... to be completely forgotten....
I thank God for my Church, now - but I thank God for the Holy Spirit above all, who never left me, nor forsook me... not ever. He was always there when I cried out to Him.
Peace.
2007-04-24 17:28:14 · answer #1 · answered by Depoetic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have some very good friends both on-line and around home that I can tell anything to and they tell me honestly when I am wrong or being wronged. We pray for each other every day and when times are tough more often then that. A lot of my support system has come directly from YA, others from different forums and then my close friends here in Waterloo, Iowa. I love each and every one of them dearly and would do anything I can to help them at any time.
2007-04-23 23:17:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christian? Yes.
Support system? I'm actually working on that now. I don't have a lot of family and I live far away from what little I do have. I'm in the process of moving closer. Also I hesitate to ask for help in hard times, so I'm working through that too.
2007-04-23 21:39:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well....
Since I moved to Florida from Connecticut 6 months ago, we've had a bit of a time getting to know people......although we're starting to now through our Sunday school class from church.
My support systems still live 1200 miles away in the form of my formar pastor and his wife......I love those people....such good Christians and good friends to lean on.
2007-04-24 11:14:51 · answer #4 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, my best friend is a youth pastor & he is also some one that holds me accountable to God when I make mistakes. He's a great listener & prays with me and my family & helps out with many different things. His life is lived out by example & in the Immitation of Christ. He is ordained & I have even nicknamed him The God Chaser.......it really is awesome to have a friend with such a strong committment to the Lord.....my kids have a great deal of fondness & respect for him.......<><
2007-04-23 21:48:24 · answer #5 · answered by Barbara J 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I have a support system of chosen family and chosen friends. We accept each other for the people that we are, regardless of our beliefs and support our decisions even if we don't agree that they're 'right'. We also squabble like chickens on occasion :)
2007-04-23 21:40:58 · answer #6 · answered by Zimmia 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a close knit family, but I also have another family at church. While one is related by birth, the other is related by death and resurrection. I am very grateful for and rely heavily on both.
2007-04-24 15:43:59 · answer #7 · answered by Rickster 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
thats right the people in your religon are going to comfort you when you need it. there going to be there when your down basically. we are like tree the more years pass the bigger are family gets and the more intertwined and tighter we become.
2007-04-23 21:45:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Friends, Bandmates, Family. No significant others.
2007-04-23 21:38:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Friends... Family... Girlfriend... All great to talk to... Great support system.
2007-04-23 21:37:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋