ChattyKathy

Roy,

A quick note then back later......

You be as long winded as you want to be dear man!

Kathy

Roy,

My head is too asleep to fully appreciate your post right now but I must take this opportunity to tell you again that you are such a gentle soul and I am proud to be able to read your inner thoughts.

Kathy

Thanks Sudo! :)

I think I agree. :unsure:

****: You've never seen the like of me before, have you?

~~~~: Never, and I wish the pleasure had been indefinitely postponed.

Agnes Moorehead?

Waysider,

He is pretty cool indeed. And Sharon Stone must be an airhead for certain since she said he was as interesting as a bologna sandwich after dating him.

Neat picture bulwinkl.

And you know I loved that movie Sudo.

Nice to see you around here Belle.

I wonder if Ca_dreaming is still jumping up and down.

And thank you George for that song, it was quite sweet.

I'm confident you'll find the answer. :)

Great harp and she can play those strings she can. :)

:o :unsure: poor little guys :)

Looking forward to it. :)

This has prompted me to think about something I'd not ever done. That being did God in fact forgive Satan.

I've always held onto this verse and it has aided in never placing blame on God:

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

What it tells me is that God would have to do what his son said was not possible for him to do. To withhold forgiveness from Satan would be contrary to his stand.

Or so this fits for my head based on what I know and where I'm at.

I also don't believe that restitution is always available and if we realize that going into the forgiveness process and still choose to forgive it has to be better for the soul than to harbor. Where in some instances wrecks havoc to the injury.

I can trust that God will and has forgiven me. And it would be wonderful if the sinner (et all) desired that same forgiveness but as stated in this thread they have to want it and what they do or don't hold inside them will be theirs alone to face their maker with. What I do with what I have left of me will be what I face my maker with. I can't afford not to forgive.

And if you play it BACKWARD, it says, "Theodore is dead"!

I agree hiwayman! :)

And Geo did the slow downed version say Paul is dead?

Great thoughts guys and some I will ponder on today as I work but I can't give it the time I'd like to now.

Hugs!

What is harder to define is forgiveness when the effect of what the other person or entity has done to you has changed your life in a way that was unwanted where you’ll never be the same again, and when the offender is unrepentant, reprobate, still wants to harm you-and in a worse way, and is therefore dangerous for you and others.

This is my situation and I chose to forgive for my healing not for theirs. But I can't look at myself as never being the same again or I'd not even try to become healed.

Forgiving I did to further my healing. Without it I'd never have been able to step forward. But once I did that the forgetting wasn't as critical because I'd chosen the forgiveness and there was power in that for me.

Beautiful! Reminds me of when we lived in Vermont. Just a tad different than what I see around here.