Know & Tell Friday

Question 1
How often do you get real sick? Praise Jesus not to often! Just plain wore out exhausted about once a month. Trying to take better care of myself to prevent that!
Question 2
Do you usually send serious or humorous greeting cards? Why? Serious for sure. As stated in questions from a couple weeks ago i tend to be on the deep side. Maybe i should lighten up a bit!
Question 3
Are you a person who has a whole lot of acquaintances, or just a few very close friends? Wow! Both for sure. I have a group of friends that God has certainly knit together in my heart-kindred spirits! (If your reading this and you know me, it sure would be fun if you would join the world of blog!) I also have a lot of acquaintances which is completely a fantastic miracle considering i used to be so painfully shy! Christ gets the credit.
Question 4
If you could cure a disease, or heal a sickness, which one would you choose? This should be a bonus question, very hard! How do i not say cancer. This is my blog so i pick 2- cancer and i'm going to say depression, mental illness... From experience my heart just aches for those who are not free to live life abundantly. I could go on but i'll save that for another day. (or apparently for the last question)

Bonus Questions
Question 5
What does "being spiritual" mean to you? Definitely bonus material. Well definitely would have had a different definition several years ago. Now I'm going to say striving (not perfect!) but striving to have the mind of Christ in all things. Trying to see people the way Christ view's them, hear from their hearts what He hears. Really seek His Word & dig deep to be able to know His thoughts and ways. Holding nothing back. Certainly not just when at church & with friends but also at home with family behind closed doors. ???
Question 6
Imagine you were talking to someone who did not believe in God and Jesus... How would you explain to them that Jesus is Real (from your experiences in your own life)? Wow. Well, from my own personal experience would just have to say that no person in their own power can change as much as i have. Not even if i had Dr. Phil and Beth Moore as my own personal life coaches! haha He has done a mighty work in me. Seek and you will find! A few weeks ago Beth Moore asked for testimonies on how we have broke free, here's what i wrote...
"Love it! Love Him! He has set me free from a fierce stronghold of bitterness toward my mom who left me when I was 5 with an abusive (in every way)dad. He has transformed my anger, hurt and severe dysfunction into pity and compassion for my abusers. I storm the gates of heaven in prayer for them to know my Savior and to know that they can live in total freedom this side of heaven! He has chased away my fear! At 20 my husband was still having to walk me to the bathroom for fear of being alone!! He has broken the chains of drug addiction for me and my husband! He spoke Isaiah 43:19 into my heart before I ever knew how to find it in my Bible! He changed the legacy for my 4 beautiful children. He is my everything & it is my absolute joy to be able to share with anyone who will listen of this God who has relentlessly pursued me. To Him be all glory, honor & praise! Thanks for asking!!!!"
Funny thing is afterwards my heart ached (just cause i wanted to give Him full praise!) for all the ways i failed to mention. I had an abortion at 17, no respect at all for the gift of life-didn't even cross my mind. The fact that i was so weak and insecure and hopeless that i gave another child up for adoption years later. And yet God in His unending mercy has blessed me with 4 beautiful, healthy, God loving children. Years later when i realized the full value of life and the weight of what i had done, life was unbearable. He didn't stop, He was relentless with me He didn't just want me to move on but wanted me to know how far, how deep, how wide His love, mercy and forgiveness is. He wanted me to grasp the fact that even though i had done such horrible things i didn't have to carry the weight of that around with me. Our human bodies were not created to bare the weight of that and He continues to remind me that He has taken that and bares it for me.
Oh mercy, i could go on and on. Didn't even mention what He did with my depression, suicidal thoughts.... Is anyone else thinking of that song "this is the song that never ends..."
Seriously have to go! But before i do...
Philippians 3:10-11[For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope]That if possible I may attain to the [spiritual and moral] resurrection [that lifts me] out from among the dead [even while in the body]!