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Name: Rachel
Country: United States
State: North Carolina
Metro: Raleigh
Gender: Female
Interests: Art, photography, movies, reading, philosophy, theology, and much much more.
Expertise: I'm kinda a jack of all trades, master of none, though I do like to do art and have been told only occasionally that I'm pretty okay at it. I'm learning to be a godly wife right now.
Occupation: Artist
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
10/2/2004
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| So I've been hearing on the news lately about a bad bad bad virus that's going to be unleashed in the next couple of days. Usually I just ignore stupid stuff like that, but this was from reputable sources--and many of them. It's supposed to basically take over and completely infect/consume your computer. Like it will steal ALL your information, keystrokes, etc. Anybody have any idea how to protect yourself from this?
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| I had an absolutely infuriating conversation this morning with my boss . . . conversation is a bit generous. It was more like a lecture or a monologue with me giving frequent comments which were then blown off as she proceeded to predict how my adult life would turn out.
Basically, she says that since I married the first guy I dated, and (even worse) have only ever had sex with that one guy, that I'm on the road to infidelity. All the wondering and the "what-ifs" are one day going to just become too much for me to handle and I'm going to run off and leave Jeremy. And if I don't do it to him, he'll certainly cheat on me. All this from a 47 year old woman who has never been married and has a live-in boyfriend. I just wanted to ask her if by having ten sex partners over the years it's made her more or less satisfied with her current boyfriend.
She kept saying that everybody cheats, everybody wanders, everybody wonders. She cited every married friend she had, her own parents, and even her pastor (no comment on that one).
I was so mad. I was infuriated. But then she had the audacity to say that if my parents were honest with me, they would probably admit that they both had cheated on each other too!!!!! I can't tell you what kind of strength it took not to knock her head off right there. Literally. She doesn't know my parents, and just because her parents were fornicators doesn't mean mine are. Just because she's never known a faithful, monogamous couple in her life doesn't mean it's not possible.
Oh it made my blood boil. I'm not naive enough to think that I'll always be in romantically in love with Jeremy or that I'll never have a single thought of another man. But we promised to be faithful for life and no matter what comes our way, nothing justifies infidelity.
Just pray for her. It's hard to get through to someone who thinks they know it all because they're twice your age and they've "been" there. She hasn't been here. She's never been married.
I need to just calm down . . . .
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| I'm leading a Bible study session next Monday night about submission in marriage. Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions?
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| I roll my eyes at kitsch.
I just hope I don't turn into "that" middle-aged woman who passes on stupid, trite, untrue, and manipulative e-mails (if you don't forward this now, you must not love Jesus).
Shoot me before that happens. Please.
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| I've been reading in the book of Acts and have come across a few different stories which were a bit scary. The first was that of Ananias and Sapphira found in Acts 5:1-11, and the second that of Herod in Acts 12:19-23. Both stories tell of the demise of people who take pride in themselves and who fail to give glory to God where it's due. Even in Herod's case, it's not necessarily a refusal to praise God, just a failure. That hit close to home.
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