As for funding for your Houses of Refuge, has it occurred to you yet to explain your concept in a GoFundMe post and on Kickstarter? There are many people out there very much wanting to find viable paths to helping the homeless, and they have a lot more money than me. (My income now is $13,452/year, which is pretty much what I live on. My husband has money, but he’s never shared it with me so I have no access to it. What I donated last Sunday is likely to be it for the foreseeable future - unless God has a plan to channel money through me...)
Thank you for being personal with us, Peter. I have little use for superficial interaction with people, so I really value these meaningful insights you give us into your soul (a very beautiful soul).
You consistently ask the profound and appropriate questions, which is one of the reasons I believe you have Greatness in you. Not the pointless greatness of social status and honorifics, but the true Greatness of being wise enough to let the glory and abundance of God’s plan manifest through you.
A mindset that has been very helpful to many with fears is to think of any deep desire of yours to be a ‘preference’, not a ‘need’ or ‘want’. It’s just a preference. You PREFER that your Houses of Refuge achieves its goals - this or something better, in accordance with God’s will. You PREFER, as you pray, that your clients reap spiritual growth and relief from their suffering - this or something better, in accordance with God’s plan. See? It lessens the fear as you transfer some of the responsibility of success - the outcome - from your shoulders to God’s. You make the efforts, then ‘let go, and let God’. You are ALLOWING success to unfold, you are PREFERRING success to result - but if things don’t go as planned, well, instead, you learn, grow, try again, and follow the ideas that come to mind for a new strategy for success - ideas that channel through you from the Universal Consciousness that is an aspect of God and the Holy Spirit (or however we conceptualize it).
The Bible speaks of ‘perfect love’, which is a complete trust in God, a ‘knowing’ that comes from surrendering the OUTCOME to God. “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.” - I John 4:18. If you’re feeling torment, because you want something so badly, then change your resistance to failure into a trusting, allowing ‘preference’ for the result you have in mind. Please try this - it will lessen your fear!
I pray for the success of your Houses of Refuge, and for your personal happiness, Peter. How it all unfolds and the particulars of the outcome is co-created by you and God, who loves you.
As for funding for your Houses of Refuge, has it occurred to you yet to explain your concept in a GoFundMe post and on Kickstarter? There are many people out there very much wanting to find viable paths to helping the homeless, and they have a lot more money than me. (My income now is $13,452/year, which is pretty much what I live on. My husband has money, but he’s never shared it with me so I have no access to it. What I donated last Sunday is likely to be it for the foreseeable future - unless God has a plan to channel money through me...)
Thank you for being personal with us, Peter. I have little use for superficial interaction with people, so I really value these meaningful insights you give us into your soul (a very beautiful soul).
You consistently ask the profound and appropriate questions, which is one of the reasons I believe you have Greatness in you. Not the pointless greatness of social status and honorifics, but the true Greatness of being wise enough to let the glory and abundance of God’s plan manifest through you.
A mindset that has been very helpful to many with fears is to think of any deep desire of yours to be a ‘preference’, not a ‘need’ or ‘want’. It’s just a preference. You PREFER that your Houses of Refuge achieves its goals - this or something better, in accordance with God’s will. You PREFER, as you pray, that your clients reap spiritual growth and relief from their suffering - this or something better, in accordance with God’s plan. See? It lessens the fear as you transfer some of the responsibility of success - the outcome - from your shoulders to God’s. You make the efforts, then ‘let go, and let God’. You are ALLOWING success to unfold, you are PREFERRING success to result - but if things don’t go as planned, well, instead, you learn, grow, try again, and follow the ideas that come to mind for a new strategy for success - ideas that channel through you from the Universal Consciousness that is an aspect of God and the Holy Spirit (or however we conceptualize it).
The Bible speaks of ‘perfect love’, which is a complete trust in God, a ‘knowing’ that comes from surrendering the OUTCOME to God. “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.” - I John 4:18. If you’re feeling torment, because you want something so badly, then change your resistance to failure into a trusting, allowing ‘preference’ for the result you have in mind. Please try this - it will lessen your fear!
I pray for the success of your Houses of Refuge, and for your personal happiness, Peter. How it all unfolds and the particulars of the outcome is co-created by you and God, who loves you.
Thanks! Those are good thoughts.... I'll have to remember them.