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Your welcome! I hope you get the support and help you need.
Yeah.. u are definitely right about the online part, thanks for not being a creep.. lol.. thanks for the advice about friends and parents, I will definitely use/try some of the things u suggested.. thanks so much :)
Sorry that’s a lot of text. I know dealing with depression/anxiety is really difficult. Trust God and fill your mind with how awesome he is, he is our deliverer from trouble. “But as for me, I am poor and needy; come quickly to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; Lord, do not delay.” Psalms 70:5 NIV
Part 3 - Online: Lastly, I want you to think how your anxious thoughts lead you away from the safest way to heal. Just think how because you are worried about your parent’s dismissal and being a burden on your friends, you convinced yourself that you can’t get help from the people who love you the most. These are the people who have your best interest at heart, but because of anxiety you felt it was safer to ask an online stranger for help. I could be anyone, and I could’ve made an alternate account pretending to be your age and listened nicely till you trusted me enough to give me your personal information. True, you might not have fallen for something like that, but I doubt anyone thinks they’ll fall for it until they do. Sorry to be so blunt in this last section, I just want you to realize how vulnerable you make yourself when you don’t trust the people close to you who love you and care about you.
Part 2 - Parents: I understand they disagree with some of the psychological things. Maybe try to talking to them in less psychological terms, like “mom I’m feeling sad right now, what do you do when you feel sad?” Or “I’m worried about _______, can you help me with that?” Understand that your parents have lived a lot more life than you, so while you may not agree with everything they say, they will probably have a some wisdom you can apply to yourself that they learned over the years. Also, you should be aware that having a diagnosis actually can have some negative effects mentally. Some people despair of getting better or start to have an external locus of control rather than an internal one (they believe stuff just happens to them and they are a victim, rather than feeling they can overcome their problems). I highly highly recommend the book Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier (available in all audiobook platforms) to help you spot times when psychology helps and doesn’t help. It can be helpful to name your problems, but don’t let that make you feel defeated. Remember to trust God.
Part 1 - Friends: In Galatians 6:2, Paul says, “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” In the verse, we are commanded to carry each other others burdens. In some cases the burden carried should be your burden. Don’t be afraid to have your friends help you carry your burden for a while. Also, one thing people who need help seem to always forget is that it is a privilege to carry their burden! What I mean is, good friends should want to help you, and in most cases do want to help you. In fact, they will probably be flattered that you trust them enough to ask them for help. It’s a great complement to a friend to trust them with your problems. So, I think you should definitely talk to friends your age.
Ok, well, I have a few things that I hope will help. I’m not a psychiatrist or therapist or anything, but I have dealt with some depression/anxiety issues.
Yeah.. I don't really have the emotional energy to take any more dismissal than absolutely necessary. Im kinda used to being dismissed tho, if Im being honest. Sorry… I’m not, like, tryna ask for pity, just a little advice, ya know?
I’m sorry you’re dealing with that. It sounds like you’re worried your parents will dismiss your problems because they don’t believe in diagnosis of mental problems, and you don’t want to be a burden on your friends because they have their own issues, is that right?
Yeah so… abt that… my parents dont rly believe in, like, mental disabilities… soooo… I have recently been diagnosed with depression and anxiety but my parents say that they are not real things and that people just like to come up with names for their problems so they can use them as excuses…. As for friends.. I feel like it is not really right (?) to dump my problems on them because , you know, they probably have a lot of their own problems. So I kinda feel bad talking to them.. I dont really wanna burden them, ya know? Sooo… any advice? Sorry for dumping btw
I’m 23. If you’re uncomfortable, I’d recommend talking to in-person friends your age or your parents. In-person is usually better.
B4 I say anything… just for my own precautions.. how old r u?
I just. Don’t rly wanna talk to anyone that is like ‘old’ but I don’t wanna dump on someone who is too young.. ya know?
hello, I just saw this. I’ll check back over the next few days in case you respond
Hey.. this doesn’t seem super active, like, at all.. but if u r there, I cud really use some advice or someone to talk to.. thanks
That was also from a song lol
”Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.“ 2 Corinthians 12:7-10
In just a matter of seconds, my mind will be free: from the coldness and darkness that dominates me.
Thats from the song: the sound of silence🙂
Hello darkness, my old friend.
plz plz join my group friendly discussions so far we have 35members and with your help we can make that number bigger so plz plz come down and join lol we are really friendly it’s FRIENDLY DISCUSSIONS
if u are a girl plz join my new group warrior princess
Because I noticed it wasn’t a common group theme
So, we don't need to make nothing 3.
That's great! However, Peanut figured out she can't make people who join, leave, and join again and admin.
will can you please join a group called the council
I am creating nothing 3 because Peanut cannot make anybody admin with his device.
Cause if you are, I would like you to be an admin on nothing 3, that way if anybody wants to be an admin, you can make them an admin.
@Will: do you check nothing 2's message wall?
can you read it and tell me how I did
newspaper has been posted on bible memory newspaper
A friendly reminder that God is good
I think one of the hidden verses was in a group with the school’s name 🙃
My school is 9 hrs away or 7.5 hrs if I go at night
How many hours away is the place your moving?
Thanks, yes my pfp has to do with Sad Hour, maybe like the war between the flesh and the spirit 🙃
I’m getting ready to move next week
Does that have anything to do with Sad Hour?
Cool pfp, Will. Interesting how half of your face is in the light and half of it in the dark
Thank you, so far so good. How’s your day?
thanks will that is helpful 😊
Part 6, “Now all has been heard;
here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the duty of all mankind.
For God will bring every deed into judgment,
including every hidden thing,
whether it is good or evil.” Ecclesiastes 12:13-14. The difference between the aging unbeliever and the aging Christian is this: the unbeliever loses everything that matters to them - memory and legacy. For the Christian memory and legacy have no meaning and replaces them with the fear of God, love for God, and obedience to God. None of that is for our sake, but for the sake of God and His will.
Part 5, So what is our hope if we have no legacy, no memory (eventually), and no guaranteed positive impact. Well, first of all, why are worry about these at all? Isn’t a legacy for your glory? Your memory for your delight? And positive impact for your sense of purpose? They are all about you being meaningful, when in fact the only meaningful being in existence is God. Nothing about you or what you do is meaningful apart from what comes from Him. James 1:17-18, “every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like the shifting shadows. HE CHOSE to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruit of all he created.” By God’s grace you were saved through Jesus, and He has given you your current circumstances for you to work out. Whether the result will be remembered or impactful is of no consequence to you. Only God’s will matters, not your memory and legacy, and He will determine the impact of what you do. So, do not worry, love God, do what He says - He loves you, so obey Him. He is your reward and all you should ever love. Then you will not need a legacy, you will not need memory, you will not need to be impactful: all you will need is God.
Part 4, What this tells me is that I will leave no legacy to be remembered by, and neither will you. You will be utterly forgotten. I had an uncle who reached old age and became very concerned with the legacy he would leave behind. The only legacy he left was the sinking feeling that nothing he did mattered because he didn’t know the Lord. But will we as Christians leave behind a positive legacy? Will the actions of us be remembered? I believe the answer is no, our actions are not guaranteed to have positive impact, and they certainly will not be remembered. This is because we have no control over the impact of our actions on others whether positive or negative; we don’t know how other’s will perceive us or even whether our greatest efforts will be our least positively impactful or whether our least effort will have the greatest positive impact. Ecclesiastes 2:21, “for a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge, and skill an then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.”
Part 3, In both Ecclesiastes and in The Father, the tragedy is the loss of memory. For some reason, memory seems essential to the ability of humans to feel a sense of meaning. Without memory, what’s the point? But it’s abundantly clear that eventually there will come a time when you will not remember much anything, and eventually you will pass from the memory of your descendants until all you are is a name among thousands on the page of a family tree.
Part 2, Ecclesiastes makes clear that the fate of the wise and the foolish are the same: “I saw that wisdom exceeds folly, just as light exceeds darkness:
14The wise man has eyes in his head,
but the fool walks in darkness.
Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both. 15So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?”
And I said to myself that this too is futile.
16For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool! 17So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind. (Ecclesiastes 2:14-17)
Part 1, I'm was listening to the soundtrack to the movie The Father - a movie from the perspective of an old man with dementia. It is not a Christian movie, and it shows just how hopeless life just before death is for nonbelievers. But why is being a Christian any different? We all grow old and lose our memories and eventually our lives. What is the difference between an elderly non-believing man who doesn't know his children and an elderly Christian man who doesn't remember his family either?
I have always been taught to capitalize his name
well yea… I guess I get what you mean and ye
Sure, I just mean it shouldn’t be a big deal if it’s an accident
but I think we should because we are showing respect and it’s a name
I don’t think there’s any place in the Bible that says you must capitalize the word God 🧐
umm … don’t be pessimistic I want him to come back and through god anything is possible
I hope your cat comes back
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