Joyful Christian Hermit Speaks: Humility and Holy Variance

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I had two amazing God experiences this week. One was threading the gas tank that is hooked up to my cooking stove that I fill myself with propane and it wouldn’t thread and it wouldn’t thread and it wouldn’t thread. I was down on my knees in the snow in the cold and the wind and the sleet Taking forever to thread this thing. Then I said oh dear God please help me with this I cannot do it and immediately it threaded after an inordinate amount of time not threading. Then I had a tremendous toothache which I tried to care for with various anointment that seem to aggravate it to the point where the pain was unbearable. Once again I said please dear God help me with this pain it’s too much for me to bear. And immediately the pain stopped. It really was uncanny. God and I have an understanding that I will keep painting if he could keep me out of pain ha ha ha! By the way I have to say I just love your sense of humor particularly the line about this person that just would do a hop skip and a jump all over the Bible! Very funny

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I absolutely LOVE the miracles that God brings to us in such humility on our part--as in desperation and down on your knees in snow with sleet and chill and snow (there is a section in Daniel that has repetitive versicles (if that's a word that states Wind and rain, Praise the Lord, Chill and snow, Bless the Lord--well, in that type of drum-beat rhythm and the harshest of weather, and maybe it's Bless the Lord or Praise the Lord--my head is a ruination of all manner of things. Anyway, I had that in my mind as I read of your first miracle and down on your knees and calling upon the Most High in such utter and abject neediness but sincere and solid faith! And there it was--a surprise twist and you threaded that gas tank yourself after no-go many tries. The tooth-ache was really, truly getting to me just reading about it, and there you were in crunch time of unable to suffer it any longer--and placed your need so respectfully, lovingily (dear God) and with heartfelt sincerity to God the Physician and Healer. Your Spouse and Constant Companion, your Artistry Inspiration and Director, both. The immediacy of the healing is astounding given how those sufferings throb and ache relentlessly. "Surely God is In this Place...." That's what I think it was Abraham or Isaac or one of the OT patriarchs said when he won over the battling with the angel who left him with a gimp hip. I think that was the time and place and what was said--Callead it Beth-el from then on which means house of God or God is in this house/place. I also love your wager with God, done in loving camaraderie and knowing one another so intimately that He has kept you painting, and He obviously is delighted with the results! I'm not sure what kind of "understanding" which is the word you used and much better word than wager, but I am convinced God would understand and appreciate a fun and well-intentioned wager, too!

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@ Wow a heartfelt answer that is greatly appreciated. Was it Jacob who wrestled with the angel? I recently came across the Paul Gauguin painting not knowing that he had taken it from a sketch by Rembrandt. Thank you for your Expression of love and kindness across the Digital universe. Often this can shine through greater than the person in front of us.

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@@caroledrury1411 Yes--it was Jacob! Thank you! I am i too much pain plus too much in the mind and on the mind of multi-tasking here and also still using news as a means to distract from pain, also. I want to wean off far more as it is mental clutter I do not need. I will try sticking to headlines or not at all, but I flop on bed in such pain that I've become dependent on "popcorn" type distraction--not particularly nutritional, etc. You comprehend. Totally agree that message and meaning--the medium is the message as Martin McKuen (sp not corrrect at all!) famously said but am fairly certain he did not mean this more esoteric view of the medium. Yet it is truth! Expression--even the Message itself can be through the Medium of the Spirit of Soul.

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@@caroledrury1411 I looked and got more educated on the natural v suynthetic. I assumed mine were natural and they are, but there are some that are synthetuc, Ive had the synthetic type after surgery--and ironically did not have as good effect other than if also on other. Of course, such as morphine is made from natural--from poppy seed and/or other natural--hemp?--forget already as headache is worse when I wake up and pain high as i'm o 12 hour ext release form--they are manufactured and in tablet form. However, in past was on that which was lab -created and was a God-send. It was horrific and cruel how the one state in particular was so rigidly set in ignorance of opioid usage without consideration or distinguishing medical need or condition, medical records, etc. No one wants this amount of suffering or to have to be on medications regardless; but those whose lives would be critically harmed wtihot, they are Godsends. I pray for the souls of those who so quickly judged and especially caused my children to suffer so much with their mother in horrific pain especially the sieges. Was in humane to me but what it did to young children to have to helplessly be there essentially fending for themselves while I suffered out-of-my-mind sieges and at other times unable to go to their events or be for them when they needed me--well, I pray for them to be shown and to not have it held against them. One doctor i particular knew me growingup and his parents and my parents good ffriends, his mother and my aunt childrehood and adult friends--and I did look at him and said, myself in tears, that some day he would so regret and would come back upon him in a way tragic for what he was causing my childrento suffer by denying me the pain meds I'd been given by my CA surgeon and GP who KNEW and was in my records the intractable pain and disabled by it. He suffered something later on with his son, very tragic. I had alreayd long since written him a note and said I was sorry I had said such to him, for I realize he had no idea of knowing about such matters even if a doctor. (Society, and media especially, have done so much damage to those who truly need what the pain meds are for. Here I have had it, too, particularly the young ones just out of med school or nursing training, etc. My pain doctor, older and had been an anesthesiologist but wanted to help people with pain so left an easier and very lucrative practice for this other more difficult, told me they are being indoctrinated by fear and ignorance in their schooling and training now due to the gov't and media ignorance in not distinguishing those in need from those not and sadly addicts or those who wanted more and more after surgeries due to addictive personalities--and however they'd get more and more by whatever means. It's just another form of added suffering for pain patients to endure from society and including many in the medical world. But even relatives or friends behind my back who don't know--it's just so easy for assumptions based not on fact. Of course, it is tragic the many addicts, but what trhey cause others is cruel even if of ignorance from lack of knowing facts and not differentiating. Yet I have noticed people who are not doing all they can to manage the pain,, which I consider is a pain patient's responsibilty. Shameful when they just think a pill will take away all pain. It does not at all. Just tamps it down enough to endure and keep from suicide, basically. Help the person keep going. I'd not without GOD.