Touching God’s Feet

By: Sherry R. (View Profile)

Anyone who has read any of the articles I wrote here over the last few months can pretty much tell what my life has been like over the past few years. Just look at the titles and they tell you everything—loneliness, heartache, lack of self esteem and self worth, suicidal thoughts, a general feeling of going over the edge.

My conversations with God have been either arguing with him or thanking him. When little things go right, which don’t happen very often, I remember to thank God, when things go wrong as they most often do, I argue with God, I accuse him of not listening to me, of ignoring me. I can’t tell you the amount of times I have been down on my knees, crying, begging God for help. The pain I felt inside is indescribable, I never thought I could feel hurt so deep inside, I am sure everyone at some point in their life experiences that kind of hurt and pain. The kind of pain that makes you wonder what you’re really doing here, why is God insisting on keeping me alive, I was convinced that If I died that no one would care, no one would miss me. See in my mind that was the truth to me. I had no self worth. I felt I served no purpose.

After all the years of begging for help though, help came in the form of a friend I met on this site, someone I never met in person, and probably will never meet. We live in two different countries, but Denise, found in her heart to help me, by just listening and offering all the guidance that she could offer. She too had trouble in her life, but chose to help me. I now have a new best friend, I never had one of those before, I never knew what it was like to confess things to someone and not be judged for the things I think and the things I thought I did wrong, the thing I thought I was being punished for.

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posted: 08.01.2008
Mindy Smith
Beautifully written Sherry. I too have been just where you have described. To feel as if you do not know why you are on this Earth and for you to feel so bad about yourself is a very hard pressing question. But, when you lend your faith to God, he really does let you know why exactly you are here and he shows you that you are loved no matter what your disease tells you otherwise. Now when I feel these thoughts I remember that it is just the disease talking and not me and I convince myself that I really dont feel that way and eventually the feelings subside. I have been through all of the things you have described and to have to go through them over and over is just exhausting and when I feel like giving up there is something in me that shines through and overcomes it all and I know that it is God looking down on me.
posted: 05.21.2008
Mark Roddey
Wonderful story. I've never experienced a dream such as yours, but I've been in parts of the world where it was as if I were touching the face of God. A moment of realization, an epiphany one might say, where everything appeared in perfect clarity, in perfect order. The surroundings were so grand and beyond human comprehension, I knew only a superior being could be responsible for the result that laid before me.
posted: 05.12.2008
Denise Kane
Sherry, you are a wonderful person....thanks for the kind words... I just responded when the Holy Spirit told me to... you are a wonderful person and God is teaching you to believe it.... keep letting him work in your life....
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