Posted by Linda on 11/1/2005, 9:41 pm, in reply to "Re: Is Anyone Home Anymore?" I wonder what it is about the board that creates such a void. Do you think it would be better as a chat? --Previous Message--
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Jim, I agree that your story is quite inspiring. Thanks for sharing the positive growth from the break.
: Jim your message is wonderful news.
: I'm so glad to read of your success
: with life (living in the moment). I
: have decided to come out of
: "early retirement" to go
: back to "work". No
: responses yet but, I'll keep on
: trying and putting in new
: applications. Your message about
: your job and promotion has inspired
: me even more. I agree with you
: about the message board however,
: things are always as they should be
: in giving us learning experiences.
: Congratulations, and love to you
: also. PS--Jesus is a great teacher
: and one of the greatest lessons I
: have learned from Him is Love
: because love is tender. Love is
: patient. Love is a good listener.
: Love is forgiving. Love is being
: forgiven. Love waits on the
: sidelines until we decide to
: re-direct our lives toward the real
: meaning of love. And, that is love
: for self.
:
: --Previous Message--
: For some reason I only feel
: motivated
: to talk here when I'm having
: difficulties. I wrote a while ago
: that I was feeling bad about myself
: and having trouble finding a job. I
: went to heavy equipment operator's
: school and got a job straight out of
: school doing soil stabilization for
: big construction projects. I started
: out at $18/hr and have been promoted
: to Quality Control which will be
: about $25/hr. I am enjoying the work
: tremendously. It is much more than I
: allowed myself to expect since my
: 'breakdown'. My life feels new and
: adventurous. I leave tomorrow for a
: long job in California where I'll be
: staying in a hotel. I feel happy and
: excited. It's not the same kind of
: happiness I felt when I was really
: coming out of my deep depression and
: doing a lot of spiritual work and
: reading EC. That was a very content
: and disciplined feeling. This one is
: more of a high and less secure but I
: have learned a few things and I am
: taking actions intended to keep me
: in the moment and turn this new job
: into something lasting.
:
: Before my 'break' I had a great job
: but I just went crazy with 2 car
: payments and a giant house payment
: and drinking all the time and it
: just couldn't last.
:
: Now I am choosing not to take any
: new payments. It doesn't matter if I
: spend all the money I make, even
: frivolously, it just matters that
: I'm not creating anchors that will
: drag me down if I stop working. I am
: also respecting my family more.
:
: It boils down to the mechanics of
: interactions. My interactions with
: others (wife, kids) are intended to
: help produce opportunity in their
: lives/support endeavors. My
: interactions with myself are
: intended to keep me in the
: moment/smelling the trees and not
: create financial or spiritual debt
: that pull me down.
:
: Love/add no weight/open eyes
:
: My old burden was too heavy. My new
: burden is simply to remember not to
: pick up the old burden again.
:
: This new lightness is due in no
: small part to John Ruskan. I'm sure
: I've read 30 or 40 related books and
: and EC stands out far above the
: rest. I wish there was a way to let
: the world know about it, although I
: suppose that's how religion starts,
: when someone feels they have the
: answer for everyone else. The people
: who start it simply want people to
: know but then eventually if enough
: recruits are militant about it they
: find their compliment in people who
: are gullible and the militants and
: gullibles go off on there own and
: have a religion.
:
: Jesus was a great teacher. It's too
: bad people today use his name for a
: cause that realy has nothing to do
: with him.
:
: Something about the way this board
: is set up is not conducive to
: discussion. I can't quite put my
: finger on what it is but If I was
: really in need of support I think I
: would go somewhere else. It's not
: the people at all, just the way this
: board is set up. Maybe it would be
: better if everyones comments were
: visible on the initial screen so
: that it actually looked like a
: discussion and there wouldn't be
: this picking and choosing what to
: read.
:
: Any way, good look Linda, my love to
: you and everyone else. Jim
:
: --Previous Message--
: What has happened to communication?
: Is everyone's life so successful the
: sharing message board is no longer
: needed? I miss you guys. Let me
: know something. I'm feeling
: abandoned. I had enough of that in
: my childhood. If everyone is really
: successful with their emotions let
: me know what I need to do to get
: there too.
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