Avoid? Like a disease? Like a plague? They mean well. But I'm not going to be ashamed that I like her.
Stay silent? Yes!
Emotionless? No.
Feelings are one thing, actions are another. I'm trying to do the right thing by not doing anything.

I must believe, where I cannot prove. Prayer is simply faith and when faith ceases to pray, it ceases to live.
I must obey.

Yet faith is called upon, and that right often to wait in patience before God, and is prepared for God's seeming delays in answering prayer. Faith does not grow disheartened because prayer is not immediately honoured; it takes God at His Word, and lets Him take what time He chooses in fulfilling His purposes, and in carrying on His work -- Knowing there will be delays in answering prayer, and regards such delays as times of testing, in the which, it is privileged to show its mettle,and the stern stuff of which it is made.

Doubts should never be cherished, nor fears harboured. Let none cherish the delusion that he is a martyr to fear and doubt. It is no credit to any man's mental capacity to cherish doubt of God, and no comfort can possibly derive from such a thought. Our eyes should be taken off self, removed from our own weakness and allowed to rest implicitly upon God's strength.

::: Verse of the Day :::
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge;
And to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;
And to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.
|2 Peter 1:5-9|