Comments for J.C. Wert http://www.jcwert.com Writer & Speaker Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Jim Bakker Show: One Day Behind The Cameras Conclusion by Larry Hehn http://www.jcwert.com/2012/02/10/jim-bakker-show-one-day-behind-the-cameras-conclusion/#comment-1420 Larry Hehn Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:59:00 +0000 http://www.jcwert.com/?p=2087#comment-1420 Very encouraging! Very encouraging!

]]> Comment on “The retard in the next booth” by Nicole http://www.jcwert.com/2011/03/02/the-retard-in-the-next-booth/#comment-1416 Nicole Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:21:00 +0000 http://www.jcwert.com/?p=1506#comment-1416 This is a touching story, and I'm sorry it happened to your family. I've never used that word. I admire you for raising awareness, and for restraining yourself in the restaurant. Also, kudos to the elderly couple who sacrificed their appetizer, and to the restaurant for being so understanding. Once again, I'm sorry your family experienced this. This is a touching story, and I’m sorry it happened to your family. I’ve never used that word. I admire you for raising awareness, and for restraining yourself in the restaurant. Also, kudos to the elderly couple who sacrificed their appetizer, and to the restaurant for being so understanding.
Once again, I’m sorry your family experienced this.

]]> Comment on The Battle of Resentment by Jason Wert http://www.jcwert.com/2011/09/29/the-battle-of-resentment/#comment-1410 Jason Wert Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:16:00 +0000 http://www.jcwert.com/?p=2041#comment-1410 OK, thanks Jenny. OK, thanks Jenny.

]]> Comment on The Battle of Resentment by JennyRain http://www.jcwert.com/2011/09/29/the-battle-of-resentment/#comment-1409 JennyRain Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:05:00 +0000 http://www.jcwert.com/?p=2041#comment-1409 I think we live in this delusion that life somehow owes us... and out of that simple belief system, we construct scaffolds around our life that are really just weak supports around a crumbling foundation. Gitz's joy came from a deep resevoir of literally clinging to Christ... her disease robbed her of more than just a job, the opportunity to be married, the opportunity for kids... it robbed her of her very breath... it was a virulent poison that racked her body and eventually destroyed it... she lived in a situation where her vertebre were literally being fused together, bit by bit, compressing nerves, muscles, and eventually shutting down every single life-giving system in her body. And if that weren't bad enough, God took away her beloved father a year ago.... and she couldn't even leave the house to go to his funeral. Her life was anything but joy, yet that is what she chose. And out of that courageous choice (choice, not a feeling) - it has put life in a very different perspective for a lot of us. This is Gitz's impact... I have watched a young woman named Angie - choose joy - though God ripped away a child from her. I am watching individuals choose joy - though their health is being stolen. I have watched families who have lost jobs, spouses, dreams, homes... choose joy in the MIDDLE of their pain when they had nothing else to choose. Jason - whether you believe it or not - you too have a choice. And that choice does not mean to deny your pain or sadness, it means to be real with it, process it, and then choose how you will respond. I think we live in this delusion that life somehow owes us… and out of that simple belief system, we construct scaffolds around our life that are really just weak supports around a crumbling foundation.

Gitz’s joy came from a deep resevoir of literally clinging to Christ… her disease robbed her of more than just a job, the opportunity to be married, the opportunity for kids… it robbed her of her very breath… it was a virulent poison that racked her body and eventually destroyed it… she lived in a situation where her vertebre were literally being fused together, bit by bit, compressing nerves, muscles, and eventually shutting down every single life-giving system in her body. And if that weren’t bad enough, God took away her beloved father a year ago…. and she couldn’t even leave the house to go to his funeral.

Her life was anything but joy, yet that is what she chose. And out of that courageous choice (choice, not a feeling) – it has put life in a very different perspective for a lot of us.

This is Gitz’s impact… I have watched a young woman named Angie – choose joy – though God ripped away a child from her. I am watching individuals choose joy – though their health is being stolen. I have watched families who have lost jobs, spouses, dreams, homes… choose joy in the MIDDLE of their pain when they had nothing else to choose.

Jason – whether you believe it or not – you too have a choice. And that choice does not mean to deny your pain or sadness, it means to be real with it, process it, and then choose how you will respond.

]]> Comment on The Battle of Resentment by Jason Wert http://www.jcwert.com/2011/09/29/the-battle-of-resentment/#comment-1408 Jason Wert Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:21:00 +0000 http://www.jcwert.com/?p=2041#comment-1408 It just sneaks up and bites ya, doesn't it? :) It just sneaks up and bites ya, doesn’t it? :)

]]> Comment on The Battle of Resentment by Jason Wert http://www.jcwert.com/2011/09/29/the-battle-of-resentment/#comment-1407 Jason Wert Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:21:00 +0000 http://www.jcwert.com/?p=2041#comment-1407 I'm with you on that. I’m with you on that.

]]> Comment on The Battle of Resentment by bill (cycleguy) http://www.jcwert.com/2011/09/29/the-battle-of-resentment/#comment-1406 bill (cycleguy) Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:22:00 +0000 http://www.jcwert.com/?p=2041#comment-1406 I have to go along with kat on this.  Life is not fair but for so long I thought I deserved better.  I struggled with looking at fellow pastors, my college classmates, who were advancing farther and faster than I was.  Resentment was building up.  I had to finally let it go or it was going to destroy me.  Funny thing is that I never thought it was that big of a deal.  Then one day... I have to go along with kat on this.  Life is not fair but for so long I thought I deserved better.  I struggled with looking at fellow pastors, my college classmates, who were advancing farther and faster than I was.  Resentment was building up.  I had to finally let it go or it was going to destroy me.  Funny thing is that I never thought it was that big of a deal.  Then one day…

]]> Comment on The Battle of Resentment by katdish http://www.jcwert.com/2011/09/29/the-battle-of-resentment/#comment-1405 katdish Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:45:00 +0000 http://www.jcwert.com/?p=2041#comment-1405 I battle resentment all the time because much as I want to believe otherwise, life is not fair. I'm not so much resentful of what others have that I don't, because honestly, I have way more than I deserve. And yet, I see such inequity everywhere I look. I'm not even sure whom I'm resentful of sometimes. Sometimes I just want people to get what they deserve, but then again, who am I to say what anyone deserves? All I know is that it's a very good thing that God is God and I am not. I battle resentment all the time because much as I want to believe otherwise, life is not fair. I’m not so much resentful of what others have that I don’t, because honestly, I have way more than I deserve. And yet, I see such inequity everywhere I look. I’m not even sure whom I’m resentful of sometimes.

Sometimes I just want people to get what they deserve, but then again, who am I to say what anyone deserves? All I know is that it’s a very good thing that God is God and I am not.

]]> Comment on KKKan you forgive? by Tessastockton http://www.jcwert.com/2011/09/12/kkkan-you-forgive/#comment-1403 Tessastockton Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:07:00 +0000 http://www.jcwert.com/?p=2009#comment-1403 Bravo! Appreciated your post. Tessa Stockton ~ author of "The Unforgivable" Bravo! Appreciated your post.
Tessa Stockton ~ author of “The Unforgivable”

]]> Comment on KKKan you forgive? by CJ and Shelley Hitz http://www.jcwert.com/2011/09/12/kkkan-you-forgive/#comment-1402 CJ and Shelley Hitz Sun, 18 Sep 2011 01:43:00 +0000 http://www.jcwert.com/?p=2009#comment-1402 I can only do it through the power of Christ!  I can only do it through the power of Christ! 

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