Comments on: Where Were You Ten Years Ago? https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/ Nurturing a vibrant healthy spirituality Fri, 09 Feb 2018 00:15:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3081 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:05:53 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3081 Thank you Lyli. I will need lots of wisdom and courage being in a new position and being stretched out of my comfort zone. Do pull out those hold journals. I sometimes read the year before but hadn’t gone back 10 years. I was really amazed what had changed and how much still was the same Blessings on you too.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3080 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:04:29 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3080 wow! Sending up prayers right now for safe and blessed two years in Africa. Will you have internet there at all? I would love to hear from you periodically and be willing to pray for your work there. yes yes, God is amazing and so, so good.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3079 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:03:08 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3079 Thank Laura. I am sure I will learn and continue to grow being stretched like this. As I have said before: out of the comfort zone and into the Comforter.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3078 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:02:19 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3078 Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving a comment yesterday. Looking back certainly does give a better perspective but I hadn’t reread my journals that far back. WOW sure did bring lots of memories back. I have heard our journey described like a spiral but never a winding knot. I like that image. Thanks for sharing that with me.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3077 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:00:23 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3077 Sending up prayers for you Diana. I know when I am experiencing ‘cloudy” days, I imagine I am in God, God as the cloud. That helps me wade through the unknown, thinking as His mystery. It is hard to trust when we just want to know.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3075 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:54:05 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3075 Thanks Lisa! It is exciting and a little scary all in one but I guess that is the definition of adventure and being stretched – my word of the year.

]]> By: Lyli Dunbar https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3073 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 02:18:33 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3073 Jean, so excited to hear about the new door God has opened for you to encourage others. May God give you great wisdom and courage as you serve.

This post makes me want to pull out my old journals and spent the day visiting with “old me.” I am always surprised by what I find — it’s like visiting a stranger some times. I see how far God has brought me, and I am thankful..

Blessings to you, my sister. 🙂

]]> By: michelle anderson https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3072 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:12:07 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3072 The Lord brought me right to this message of encouragement! I’m leaving for Africa in less than two weeks for two years. I’ve been struggling with fear of the unknown, wondering if I’m crazy almost everyday! He keeps telling me I’m not. And then he reinforces it by letting me find things to read, like this. Haha! God is so good! Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Laura Boggess https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3071 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:05:37 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3071 Oh, congratulations to you, Jean! What a blessing you will be to that congregation. I am looking forward to hearing more about your new adventure with God as you journey through.

]]> By: A Little R & R https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3070 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:05:09 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3070 Stopping by from Simply Helping Him. Isn’t it fascinating to look back and see where God has brought us? I remember in Bible school, one of my professors illustrated the path of God’s call as this winding knot of a road…sometimes even going back to “start” more than once…before we get to the finish line. It’s never a straight line. But there are so many lessons learned along the way. It’s not the end that matters – is the journey and all that God does in our hearts on that journey. Glad I stopped by today. Blessings from Croatia. Rosilind from A Little R & R. http://www.littlerandr.org

]]> By: Diana https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3069 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:45:23 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3069 Stopping by from TellHisStory. I can identify with the transition you went through 10 years ago. I am in the midst of a similar one myself. Took an early retirement from a job that went from enjoyable to awful to follow a dream God had put inside me. But not until He showed me the proper timing.

I desire absolute clarity on the steps to take, but as you say that’s not always the case. I’m learning though how to discern what is Him and what is not.

Thank you for sharing your experience. To know I’m not the only one that experiences “cloudy days” in seeking to hear Him has encouraged me.

]]> By: Lisa notes... https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3066 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:09:48 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3066 A new calling! May the Lord bless you as you continue to be his light!

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3065 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:13:26 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3065 Thank you! Yes most of my focus is spiritual formation and leading small groups but as you know other needs also need help. I am helping building communications for the members such as email mailings and getting the church on Facebook and other ideas like that. Occasionally helping the pastor too. This week I am doing the children’s sermon

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3064 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:11:47 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3064 Thanks Dolly. I am not 100% sure at all what God has led me to but i will trust Him and move forward.

]]> By: pastordt https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3063 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:01:12 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3063 Lovely, Jean. Just lovely! What will your specialized ministry be? Direction?

]]> By: soulstops https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3062 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:53:24 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3062 Dear Jean,
Congratulations! Thank you for being faithful to His call and I am sure you will be a huge blessing…I know you have been one to me, and I haven’t even met you in person 🙂

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3061 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:21:02 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3061 I love reading your comments and when I see you here I smile, Mia. Thank you for always lifting my spirit.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3060 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:20:18 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3060 Thanks De. I am a mixed bag of anticipation, anxiety and deep conviction I am exactly where God wants me right now…

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3059 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:19:28 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3059 Interesting to look back a decade isn’t it, Clella? I am trusting Him more too as time passes.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3058 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:18:51 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/2013/04/09/where-were-you-ten-years-ago/#comment-3058 I sure am glad we have connected. Blessings to you too.

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