• People do not know why God tells us what He tells us.  

They will try to re-explain what God has told us.
They'll get it wrong. When their motivation is wrong, they'll get it wrong.
Why? They don't know our whole story and how His ways with us work.
Like God, they haven't searched us and known us.
They don't know our downsitting and our uprising. 
They don't understand us like God does.
They don't know our thoughts before we think them.
They don't know where we go or where we've been - literally, emotionally, or spiritually.
They don't know everything we do and why.
They didn't know us before we were formed in our Mother's belly.
They didn't have plans for our life since before the beginning of beginnings.

Ahem...
I ended something a few years ago.
Someone, who had nothing to do with the project, said I lost it. They said it was my fault.
I didn't lose it.  I dropped it! For good reasons. It was time. 
I could have pursued. God would have obliged, permissibly, until time to put His foot down. 
But it was time. 
Heaven knows. Heaven knows.

As I think back on it NOW, I realize that had I continued, the ones who had an opinion would have hurt themselves and neglected the needs of others in an effort to contradict every airing!
Every!

They would have listened, studied to contradict and presented contradictions,  wasting my and everyone else's time, and upset themselves trying to find ways to contradict everything I would have said in airings.
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So, People, at times ending a project/place/person, for God's sake, also works out for the sake of others.

What have you or do you need to let go for God's sake/His instructions to you, that will also help others?

A job that leaves out family?
A significant other that the kids fear terribly and have pleaded with you to leave them alone?
A friend who's always clawing at you for money, attention, favors, or a shoulder to DUMP (not just cry) on?
A pet that's become too much to handle, causing everyone to have to schedule their life/money around it?
A project that just isn't working well, except for working on the nerves of everyone you have involved in it?
A lease that came with a horrible landlord/neighbors/issues that upset your peace in every way?
A hobby that takes too much time with no reward?
etc...

Let it go.

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​This morning, I had a very interesting dream.

In the dream, I was watching a person back away from me.  The person backed away in fear (good fear; respect; reverence) as far as possible.  The person stopped when they got stopped by the corner of a parked van. Immediately after, I watched myself interact with a group of people. I was 'housed' on one side of the street. The people invited me to be part of something they were doing across the street. I crossed, walked up the long stairs on the side of the bank/hill, and went in. After a while, I rushed back out because they asked me to bring something.  I watched myself rush out the door, back down the hill, across the street, and enter the dwelling space. I came out of the dwelling space with something red in my hand. I crossed the street and climbed the stairs but they were no longer lined up with the entrance onto the veranda of the building. They stood on the veranda insisting that I come and simultaneously ignoring me and carrying on fun, funny conversations with each other. I very easily made my way across the ledge with my hands, having arm strength to hold my whole self up with no problem or fear of losing my grip and dropping down the bank.  It was a 'Come. We want you here so badly, but we're not going to help you get here."  I realized what was going on and woke up. I know the group the people represented, although I'd not met any of them. The building was a nice, old home with a veranda. End of Dream.


Later, as I drove to work, God reminded me of experiences I had while doing data-entry work for a temp company several summers ago. Some companies would choose me and others, but would not give us a key fob to enter the building.  Each day we had to be let in the building. They called for us, wanted us, but made us wait outside the building. Other companies gave key fobs immediately upon our first arrival because they wanted us there to do the work! 

At one point, a couple of companies were just too hintzy about letting us in and out. I decided...

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People who do you wrong out loud, and are willing to talk about it with you, usually want to talk about it in private.

They can be loud doing you wrong, but ask you to be quiet completely or discuss it with them privately.

Now, when they're loud, believe that others know it.  That's the kick they get out of saying or doing things against you aloud...so their friends and cohorts can witness, giggle, brag and high-five the perpetrator.

Why would the perpetrator expect you to help them deal, lie, apologize in private...or at least in front of their friend-group that helps them celebrate after they mistreat you?

Like, "Okay, I'm doing this to you, but can you keep it a secret for me?" 

Who?

Teacher won't give you the A you earned until you do another project that the other A students don't have to do and can't be told about...perhaps, because weirdo, racists, sexists, religious, non-religious, or ageist  Teacher doesn't want them to stand up for you.

Pedophile.

Auto Repairman overcharging you, not according to the job but according to what they need to pay their next bill and they think you can afford to overpay better than his other customers.

Him. Yes. Him.

Her. 

The neighbor sneaks their trash in your dumpster so they don't have to pay a waste removal bill, leaving you to deal with notes from the company that your dumpster is overflowing past capacity too many times.

The bully.

Abusive parents, significant others, siblings, classmates, teammates, or offspring.

Your marketing company project manager boss that takes your ideas as their own because they don't have a clue, and they want you to hide their cluelessness.

The office or break room refrigerator thief.


What do you get out of it? Taken advantage of, maltreatment or mistreatment.
You don't even get paid big money to keep their secrets!!! 


​Seek God to know the limit, when to stop taking, when or if to tell, and if to tell it loudly or have mercy this time so He can do His will with them if they do it a next time.  Then, don't be afraid to do what God says.


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​Dream this morning:

I was standing in a line.

The people in line were being very mean, pushing me and poking my shoulder with their finger.
I got the hint and stepped out of the line, feeling better and free. I didn't even know why we were in line. 
They were angry that I got out of line! 
Someone took me by the shoulders and put me back in the line. I was put in the FRONT!  ???
The meanness commenced again!
Their desire for me to be in the line was not so I could participate, but so they could be mean to me.
End of dream.

Lessons from dream:
People want you around just to be mean to you. 
Sometimes, step away and stay away.
Other times, stay. Let them keep bothering you and rack up bad behavior with the Lord or whoever is in charge if that person in charge cares at all. You don't have to answer for their bad behavior. They have to answer for it.

I was put in the front by the mean ones, because they believed I was the best or most trusted of all the other people for whatever we were in the line for, but they didn't want me to enjoy being in the front of the line.  The mindset was, "Let's keep her because we might need her to get us out of here or rescue us or give us help, because she has what it takes to figure things out. In the meantime, let's make sure she knows we don't like her." (Maybe kind of like the OT prophets who heard God for the Kings, but the Kings didn't like what the prophets said...even though they kept the prophets around to hear from them JUST IN CASE the prophets said something they liked or needed.)    

People, they see you and what you are capable of. They may give you bad reviews, bad grades, bad criticism, BUT they keep you. Why? It's hard to believe they have compassion on you the one they've labeled dumb or not enough or pitiful. They keep you because they know they need you because they see what you do for the company even if you think you're just being your typical average self.  They see that you are great.   Enjoy it. Giggle to yourself that they don't want to live without you. Seek God on whether to stay or go.


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