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I am not the one who used the Hitler comment and I found that to be unconscionable and cruel.

And as a man I tend to stay away from commenting on issues of infertility etc. because I feel that women have a much greater insight and far more to add on both an intellectual and emotional level. Some of the greatest comforters are those who KNOW what the other person is going through. Knowledge with experience can provide far more than knowledge alone.

I have a learning and chemical deficit. It has caused me great struggle over my many decades of life. More so before I knew about it. I resented having it, didn't understand why and frankly the pain caused through the years can never be fully dealt with. The idea that God creates us as we are began to eat at me. Why would God afflict me so. I have heard people say...God created me this way and God doesn't make mistakes. That bothered me. See, not only can I assess my own personal deficit I look around and see children born without a limb or with a disease that will be a lifelong affliction. And I have known people who had children born so ill they didn't live very long. [b]How could God do that? My only answer...he didn't. The world is imperfect and things happen.[/b]

Have you ever met an old person you found incredible? Wise. Kind. An encourager. Someone that people loved to be around and they seemed to move effortlessly through life. And most of all...they were at peace. Sometimes, and more often than not, people would be shocked at their life story. It wasn't what happened to them, good or bad, that shaped them but how they handled it all along the way. That's why James 1:2-4 is among my favorite verses...it's part of how to handle adversity.

2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

BTW...cliff notes version of how to live as a Christian, or live well even if you don't believe?...try the entire book of James.[/quote]

Does this mean you decided not to believe in God or is this another example of god only being involved in the good stuff and not the bad stuff?[/quote]

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