http://www.thispile.com/archives/progress One Woman, Many Piles, Much Grace. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:18:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.thispile.com/archives/progress#comment-663 zugbot » Blog Archive » ‘Me Too’ Conversations Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:40:19 +0000 http://www.thispile.com/?p=280#comment-663 [...] Whether it’s discussing frank and aggressive sex in the context of marriage or talking through the ups and downs of your relationships or working through depression — whenever I take the figleaf away for a moment (or my beautiful wife does), people come out of the woodwork to say the same thing, over and over – [...] [...] Whether it’s discussing frank and aggressive sex in the context of marriage or talking through the ups and downs of your relationships or working through depression — whenever I take the figleaf away for a moment (or my beautiful wife does), people come out of the woodwork to say the same thing, over and over – [...]

]]> http://www.thispile.com/archives/progress#comment-619 wickedweaving » A Little Taste of Peace Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:05:19 +0000 http://www.thispile.com/?p=280#comment-619 [...] I have a friend whose little girl is very sick.  She is due to be born any time now and we are all very uncertain as to what is going to happen.  On Sunday night we met with some members of our church to pray for them and support them as a community.  It was the first time in a very long time that I have felt the Holy Spirit working.  I seem to always have intellectual assent to the person and the presence of God, but I rarely feel Him or hear Him speaking.  I know that this is my own doing.  I fill the space around me with noise and distraction all day.  I refuse to take my thoughts captive and exercise discipline, instead choosing to be a victim of my emotions and believing the lie that my life is out of control.  I throw up my hands at the first sign of hardship and give myself over to depression, fear and the tendency to withdraw.  [...] [...] I have a friend whose little girl is very sick.  She is due to be born any time now and we are all very uncertain as to what is going to happen.  On Sunday night we met with some members of our church to pray for them and support them as a community.  It was the first time in a very long time that I have felt the Holy Spirit working.  I seem to always have intellectual assent to the person and the presence of God, but I rarely feel Him or hear Him speaking.  I know that this is my own doing.  I fill the space around me with noise and distraction all day.  I refuse to take my thoughts captive and exercise discipline, instead choosing to be a victim of my emotions and believing the lie that my life is out of control.  I throw up my hands at the first sign of hardship and give myself over to depression, fear and the tendency to withdraw.  [...]

]]> http://www.thispile.com/archives/progress#comment-618 Dacia Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:15:20 +0000 http://www.thispile.com/?p=280#comment-618 amen. amen.

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