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EKnight:
My job has become a stumbling block to my spiritual growth.  I just can't seem to be the light I would like to be and in fact, I am anything but.

I work for a bank but in a small office of five. It is a very relaxed office but sometimes to the point of unprofessional.  I like the relaxed atmosphere but not the lack of supervision that allows for the third paragraph of this post.**

 I butt heads with one person because she is a know-it-all who really knows nothing at all and seems to talk just for the sake of looking knowledgeable.  I am constantly trying to prove her wrong because she is adamant about things she knows nothing about.  I am ashamed of this.

**Then there is another person who is funny but gets crude (and I mean crude) at times.  When this occurs I just get silent or timidly tell her to stop.  She has an obsession with lewd commentary and I will admit there are times I laugh and probably shouldn't.  I am ashamed of this.



I can't seem to be the spiritual person I would like to be while I am at work.  I enter that world and it take over me.  I don't know how to handle this anymore.  I don't even want to work but I need to.

Eileen

aqrinc:
Hi Eileen,

Just a few hours ago i read a post where you were concerned about not getting many hard trials, maybe we need to work on these easier ones first. Do not ask for trials, but when you get trials you now have the chance to practice what you have learned. It may be a hard thing to do but; this is The Command From Jesus Christ:

Mat 5: 44-48 
But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you,
45  so that you may become sons of your Father in Heaven. For He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
46  For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax-collectors do the same?
47  And if you greet your brothers only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax-collectors do so?
48  Therefore be perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.

george. :)

myms:
Thank you for your honesty Eileen. Its easy to talk the talk, much much harder to walk the walk!

Terry:
Hello Eileen
I understand your situation as i think many of us face these same things, i think George gave enough Scriptures so i want add anymore, however i would if i may like to add this.

Six years ago i became very sick my thyroid was very low( 57 ) should be about 1 to 5 and because of that it damaged my matabolism beyond repair i'm so weak all the time i can't walk more than about 100 feet at a time before i need to rest,i can't find a job anywhere that i can do, the stress of all of this seems at times more that i can bare, you know, no health, no work that i can do the things that a husband and father should do,please don't think i don't see your problem or feel for you because i do and i will pray for you( really) but what i'm saying is Oh what i'd give to be able to be in your shoes.

Theres a friend of mine who was 40 when he drove his car off the road 5 yrs ago he's been paralized from the neck down every since, i know he would love to be in my shoes,well anyway i really don't know why i feel led to share all this with you it certainly is not to offend in anyway maybe i just need to share my problems also, i don't know, but one thing i do know is back when i was working and had good health i didn't realize what i had until i got sick, some times i think we're so blessed and we don't even know it,please accept my reply in Christian Love for that is truly what it is.
May God Bless
Terry

myms:
I suppose we need to keep our eye firmly on the point of the trials, and for me that is to keep me humble and dependant on God. My trial - in terms of maintaining a close walk with God - is living with a non Christian partner, and experiencing some of what Eileen shared. For others its their health, for others a habit they struggle to overcome. For me, I just have to keep my eye on the end purpose, when I don't I too get angry and confused! Dealing with the anger and confusion is also part of the growth process, I guess. It is encouraging though to be reminded that we are not alone, that we are all, in different ways, struggling to become who God wants us to be, and that none of us have made it yet!!

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