Happy Saturday!

Ohh today's topic is a goodie, conscience. How is your conscience, got any guilties going on? Nothing eats at you worse than a guilty conscience, it hounds you day and night and eats away at our peace and calm. Do you know how easy it is to send that haunting away? Go to your Lord and confess your wrong, repent (turn away and strive not to do it again) then do any restitution that seem right in your heart. God is quick to forgive when we confess our sin and no sin is too big to forgive. Once you've asked and turned away from the sin then let it go, don't keep dragging it back up to punish yourself that isn't your job. Today's subject is pretty short but it is really very simple so doesn't take a whole lot of talking about.

By the way where is everybody? Please don't tell me I'm talking to myself, I do that enough here at home! Post something, anything, tell me I'm crazy, anything at all! Let me know you are out there. Blessings Karen

Hi Karen,
Happy Saturday, or Weekend, since Saturday is almost over.  I need to move the bookmark for this forum up to my Favorites Bar, so I can check in more often. 

I used to be plagued with a guilty conscience, all the time.  Now, I only have one thing that crops up from time to time, and that is how I treated my children and ex-husband when I was at my worst with my bipolar disorder and borderline personaltiy.  They have forgiven me.  I have confessed to them and the Lord how wrong I was. 

I am in AA, and we have steps for dealing with sin.  Step Four is to take a personal inventory of wrongs and resentments.  Step Five is to admit that inventory to yourself, God and another human being.  Step Six is to Become ready for God to remove all of our sins and resentments.  Step Seven is to ask God to remove them.  Step Eight is to become ready to make amends to all persons we have ever harmed.  Step Nine is to make amends to all of the people we have harmed.  I am currently on Step Nine, and am seeking opportunites to make amends to certain people.  We call these Steps, cleaning house.  It has helped me to let go of past wrongs, and move forward.

Having a clear conscience helps me not to be tempted to drink.

Hugs,
Trish

I just love and respect those who have gone thru and live the AA life. They give you step by step what you need to do. I've known a few folks who are in AA and they have done some wonderful healing. I'm so blessed that I come from a totally Beaver Cleaver family and have never really had any particular horrible things to overcome in life.For that I'm truely grateful. You deserve a big pat on the back and hug for all you and God have accomplished this past year (read your testimony). I don't know if I would have survived something like that. I have all I can do dealing with the chronic pain I live with, even tho the stimulator has helped the worst of the pain in my back I still have really bad pain in my feet too. We're trying to get the stimulator programed to stop that pain too, but so far no luck. My foot surgeon said he could help with it too, just hope he doesn't want to lop my feet off! So I guess we all have our demons to deal with, but ha ha my God can handle them! You take care and I still have you on my daily prayer list, have had you there since at least last year. I'm so glad life is settling down for you, you deserve it!

Guilt is a funny thing. When I had my psych evaluation about a month ago the Psychologist told me that he doesn't often see someone who appears to have no guilt about being obese. I used to have guilt about it. But, when I decided that I was going to do this wls. I gave it to God. I see no use in harboring guilt about it. When I did that, all I did was eat more. 
 
My point is that no matter what you or  I feel guilt about, we need to give it to God because if we don't seek forgiveness even from ourselves for the wrongs that we have committed it will show up somewhere else in our lives. For me it is just easier to give it to God. It doesn't fix everything, but it definitely makes it easier.