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Judy:
Be patient.  Those of us with hard heads take longer.

JimmyJ:
Nice to meet you Mama2Times and welcome to the forum. Sorry to hear you're going through so much and obviously have to be a parent to your own Mom. That's sad and a job too,but God bless you for being willing to take it on and do things as you are.As Judy says,your plate is quite full,but you're in a good place here on the forum. It has been a refuge and life saver for me. So glad you're here and vent on!! This is the place to do it.
Speaking blessings and peace to your life and eye opening of God's Spirit for your Mom...Jimmy 

arus:

--- Quote from: Mama2Times on April 26, 2012, 05:12:59 PM ---Maybe it's just that she doesn't understand it, but she doesnt even try.

--- End quote ---

Or maybe she is scared of it?

diegito:
Hi Mama2times! Though I am really happy that you have come back to the forum, I'm sorry to hear of your family troubles (and I do agree with all the others that this is a very good place to share and vent!!). I feel for the situation with your brother - I know from experience how terribly it can hurt to be cut off from the lives of those one grew up with. You seem to have turned out a very loving person despite all the craziness around you, praise Papa!!!  :Hug: :Hug: :Hug: The part about your mother mocking your faith sounds familiar to me, too.

I think Peni/arus may have a very good point there. If it's not too personal, in what way would you say has your mother always been "kind of crazy"? I ask this because there are certain conditions that can make it almost impossible for people to accept faith. The very idea of believing in God can seem positively life-threatening if it means throwing overboard everything you have based your life on so far. My own mother's paranoid personality disorder forces her to distrust almost everything. So she can't trust God, but rather than go through the pain of realising that this is due to her lack, she makes fun of those who believe. My husband has a narcissisitic personality disorder, which means it is almost impossible for him not to see himself as the most important thing in the universe. So it was a huge, huge step for him to believe in God (thus admitting that he himself is not only not all-powerful, but that there is actually someone greater than he is!). He did make it in the end, though. It can hurt to be ridiculed by someone from one's own family but it helped mea bit to remember something I read in an interview with an Indonesian woman who had been imprisoned for allegedly trying to convert some Muslim children to Christianity (she had sung hymns while she worked in a shelter for homeless children or something of the sort): "There is nothing special about being persecuted for faith's sake: it's normal."  ;)

Praying for all of you, Mama2Times!!! Keep in touch!!! :Hug: :Hug: :Hug:

Mama2Times:
Wow. Sorry it took me so long to come back around. Summertime has been keeping us busy and my family has had some new, significant blows delivered to us recently.

Diegito, my mom is bipolar and uneducated. She's been very depressed since about November, which is the longest one of her depressive episodes has lasted. She's had moments of happiness, but, overall, I am a sounding board for her. And that's a hard place for me to be... That sounds terribly selfish, but I'm dealing with a lot of hurt too and I don't know how I can play the role of her friend and therapist.

I lost my beloved aunt to cancer a month ago and my heart is broken. She was a point of stability in my crazy childhood and she and I were very close. She had a strong faith until the day she died and I know that she is with Papa now, but my grief has hit me hard. I miss her so much that it feels suffocating at times.

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