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Stacie Lauridia
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Here's a question for you all: Are you married to Jesus or are you just dating him?
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- I'm a mother of 2 kids and 1 grandson. My son is graduating high school in December and is going to collage shortly after. My daughter gave me a beautiful grandson back in Feb. of 2009. She has her handsful with him. lol. I'm married to a wonderful man names Joe. We've been married now 2 years. I'm in school for Medcal Assisting, and I can say that God is good! He is there to help me in everyway. Believe me when I say that medical school is hard, but if God puts you in a place that's hard, then He'll be right there beside you till the end. God is changing our lives in a possitive way. Sometimes we have to get past the muck in life to reach our rainbow. God Bless..
- My Testimony
- God has saved and kept me safe through all my stupid things done, said, and thought through out my life. I thank and praise Him for this. I was born in Lafayette Indiana, raised until age 16 in Delphi, In.. I recieved the Holy Spirit at age 7, and when I turned 13 God told me through a prophitist named Mary Holden that if I would sing for him, He would always use me in the music relm. I've been singing ever since. This was the easy part. I lived in an abusive home even though both my parents were church goers and active in it. My dad was a deacon, and my mother taught sunday school. The abuse wasn't just verbal, it was also physical, and emotional. According to my parents it started after I was born, and it didn't stop until they divorsed when I was 16. My mother is remarried and is very happy. She's also active in the church she attends. My dad isn't married, but is happy and also attends a church. When my parents split I went with my mother and my sister stayed with my dad. Life didn't get any better, now there was the going without because of no money. My mom went to school so she could get a job,( she was a homemaker for 16 years) and she worked after school; so this ment I was alone most of the time. No I didn't get into trouble, nor did I drink or do drugs, I was just alone. I had my church friends, church activities, etc..I just didn't have a mom or dad. I started resenting both of them because I felt abandoned, so I'd make up stories to my dad, about my mom, which in the end turned out to make things worse. I wanted them back together even with all the abuse because I wanted my family back. I know now that this would have been a mistake, because both my parents told me that they felt released to move on away from each other, an that God was leading them in diffrent directions. Yes my parents tried for 22 years to work it out it just didn't work. They also apologized to me because they said ( during all the stories I told, and the problems I made)it was my fault for their fighting..if I wasn't born they wouldn't have had problems. Yes they apologized , and things are good between me and them. At age 19 I got married and turned 20 1 mo. later. At 21 I had my first child and things were good. At 23 I had my 2nd child and things started going down hill. My x-husband (now) did drugs which I didn't approve of or do; but did nothing to stop it. It didn't stop there..he had 3 affairs, 2 I didn't know about until after we seperated. Of course it was my fault he had the affairs. If I was a better wife/mother/homemaker he wouldn't have to look elseware. When He told me about the 1st affair we were sitting in church listening to the preacher when he pulled my husband to the front and told him to tell me everything. Well he did right there in church. I felt like someone stuck a knife in the center of my back, and twisted it. I didn't know what to say or do at that moment. All I wanted to do was disappear, and forget what I had just heard. When I did talk to the preacher, I told him that I wanted out, but he talked me into staying instead. I was carring my 1st child at this time, and he said that if God could forgive him, so should I. I forgave him and things were good, or so I thought. After my 2nd child that's when it got even worse. My x-husband then moved his mother in with us. She made it clear that she didn't like me and I wasn't very good at anything. To her I could'nt cook, clean take care of my kids, and I was a bad mother/wife. It got so bad that it caused more problems in my marriage. She didn't like my family and they were'nt allowed to visit, and my children couldn't visit them. My x-husband agreed with his mother and told me if I ever took my kids around my family(5 years have already passed) he would take them and move away. He said I'd never see them again. Honestly at the time I believed him because he was so convincing. Shortly after this we split up, and divorsed 2 years later. (We were married for 10 years.) During the 2 years of seperation he convinced me that it would be best if the kids lived with him, because I lived with my dad and there wouldn't be enough room. He also said it would be temporary and we shouldn't want their lives to change because ours was. I believed him and did what he wanted because I wanted the marriage to work. He also said that he needed time to think and some space. I didn't understand, but agreed to it. The truth was he went and filed for divorse and full custody of the kids, and lied to me. I became very resentful, and angry through all this because all I knew was that one minute I was married; and even though we had problems we could have worked them out, and the next I wasn't. After the divorse, and realization of what had actually happened, I got so depressed that I wanted to kill myself. My friends and family saw right through him and what he was up to. I didn't listen because I knew that God could put my marriage/family back together again. God had other plans for me, I just couldn't see them at the time. When it didn't happen and it all got worse,(my x-husband wouldn't let me see my kids), all I thought of were diffrent ways of dieing. I didn't care any more ...I still went to church, sang in the choir, etc. I just didn't care if I lived or died. The only person I could talk to who had the answers wasn't listening to me, or so I thought. I felt alone again, and even worse then when I was a kid. I got so depressed that I had decided to end it. I was standing on a bridge thinking about jumping when God put my childrens faces in front of me and said "who will be their mother if your not here?" He also said" No matter where you are on this earth you will always be their mother, because you love them unconditionally." God also gave me Isiah 54:1-8 a few days later, and my life changed even more because I didn't feel alone anylonger. I made another big mistake 2 mo. after that..I got married again. I knew God told me not to get married but I did it any way. My 2nd husband gave me thousands of dollars to do with as I pleased, he helped me get joint custody of my kids, which was a good thing, but for the wrong reasons; and then resented my kids after they started comming around. He thought that if I got my kids I'd be happy and we would be one big happy family. I didn't know about the resentment until we got into a fight. I confronted him about some things my children said they were unhappy about concerning him. (My kids were 7 and 10 at this time and my daughter had just moved in.) He got mad and called them liars which started a another fight, which became physical when he started in with my daughter. He told me to choose between him and my kids. I said.."Do I really have to answer this?" Things got worse instead of better..he moved his girlfriend( whom I didn't know he had) in shortly after, and then he filed for divorse.( We divorsed in 2003) I got married again on June 8, 2008 and this time my kids like my husband, and approved of the marriage. We moved to Pennsylvania in Nov. of 2007 and things have been good. I can't say the've been great because with every marriage comes a whole new set of problems. Through out everything God has been good! God Bless!
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- Music, nature trails, some out door activities. I like to craft things, pottery/ceramics. I like to horseback ride, boating, camping, traveling, etc..
- Favorite Music / Movies / Tv Shows / Books
- I enjoy all kinds of music. Gospel/christian and country are my favorites. I enjoy many diffrent types of movies. I like action, romance, family, suspence, etc. it just depends on the movie. I like diffrent types of TV showes like Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, Star Trek, Touched by an Angel, HGTV, etc.. I enjoy romance novels, home decorating books, the Bible, Cooking and gardening books. It just depends on the book and what catches my eve.
- Favorite Quotations
- With God all things are possible!
My God shall supply all your needs!
Many many others...just read the Bible.
- What would you say is your Spiritual gift?
- Music(vocal) I love to sing :) I'm sure there are others, I'm just not sure what they are. YET!
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Hello everyone, Please keep my dad and step-dad in prayer. My dad went to the doctor a few days ago and found out that his heart isn't beating right. The doctor says that if it doesn't work, with the…
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Hello everyone, Please keep my dad and step-dad in prayer. My dad went to the doctor a few days ago and found out that his heart isn't beating right. The doctor says that if it doesn't work, with the medicine provided, then they will have to shock the heart to put the rythum back. It's hard to explain, but it is very serious. Also My step-dad had alot of heart, nervous systum, & lung problems. It all started when he was in Vetnaum, he was sprayed with what they call Agent Orange. Well it…
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YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH... GOD MAKES WAY THAT WE COULD NEVER THINK OF.
WHEN WE LOVE BASED ON KNOWING GOD IS GONNA WORK THINGS OUT ... WE GET BLIND ( I NO I DID) AS MY X WOULD SAY I HAD ON ROSE COLURED GLASSES AND THIS WAS A DOG EAT DOG WORLD.
IT TOOK YEARS FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND HE WAS JUST LIKE YOUR FIRST HUSBAND.
YOU HAVE LEARNED AND GOT OVER YOUR BUMPS ... GOD IS GOOD AND HE WILL ALWAYS BE ON TIME... HE HEAR US EVEN WHEN WE THINK HE DON'T.
GOD BLESS YOU KEEP STRONG !
Continue planting good seeds in your life.
God sees your heart., and He cares so much about what you are going thru at this time.
Love with all your heart, - your kids, your husband, your God.
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(10) Fear thou not; for I {am} with thee: be not dismayed; for I {am} thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
May the Lord bless you as well. Thanks for stopping by to bless us with your presence.
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Reg. attending a church or not, and getting hurt by other Christians is another thing. It is written nowhere in the bible that we must attend a church, but we shall have fellowship with our brethren, and why?First to hear the Word, then to encourage and support eachother, but also to correct each other. But the most of all is to love one another, with all mistakes!! ( Jesus new commandment to us :John 13/34) People always will hurt other people, but overcoming the hurts and the feelings is what we shall try to do, and what "battlefield" or gym would be better to exercise and practice this than in a Church?
So I really pray that God will lead you to a good Church with a wonderful Pastor and annointed leaders, and a good worship-team, of course LOL
stay blessed
In Him,
Brian
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