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		<title>By: Anita</title>
		<link>http://laravelez.com/2008/03/14/transparencymy-testimonyand-maybe-some-whinningcan-you-handle-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1608</link>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You can certainly add another sister who loves you very, very much, who has been blessed more times than I can count just by you being my friend and of course who is praying for you.

You have by no means scared me off.  I&#039;m afraid you can&#039;t get rid of me that easily dear - it&#039;s going to take a lot more than this - yep, you&#039;re stuck with me honey.

By posting this you&#039;ve yet again showed me that you&#039;re much more of a women than I am and even more stronger in your faith than I think I ever can be.

I was once told that God will never give you more than you can handle.  And trust me ... I know exactly how hard that is to believe.  But I do try to remind myself many times that it is true.  Now I&#039;m reminding you ... He wouldn&#039;t.  

I can&#039;t say that I&#039;ve been through everything you&#039;ve said but I can definitely say there are quite a few things you&#039;ve mentioned that I have and I&#039;m so, so sorry any of that has happened to you!  You have no idea how sorry I am.  

However, I&#039;ll say it again, it only proves to me just how strong you really are - and you&#039;re faith - wow, you&#039;re much, much better Christian than I am.  I only hope to someday be as strong as yourself!  Keep the faith honey cause you sure do have a lot of it!  You don&#039;t ever want to change this!

Sweetie - I find myself asking the same kind of questions over and over and over again!  That doesn&#039;t mean you&#039;re whinny, weak or a bad person - it means you&#039;re HUMAN.  It doesn&#039;t make you any worse of a person than any others.  You&#039;re just big enough to admit it as many of us would not be able to do.

I&#039;d like to belive my husband and I are pretty good people and go out of our way to help anyone we can.  We are those kind of people who would give the shirts off our backs if you needed it.  We&#039;ve practically done it.  We&#039;ve opened our house free of charge, fed and given money to several of our friends in our past.  I find myself saying - So why is it that we&#039;re struggling?  Where are all these people when WE need them.  Where is HE when we need him?  

He&#039;s there - He really is.  We just don&#039;t always see it like we should.  I hope you can see He really is. 

I didn&#039;t say all that to take away from you ... I said that so you see you&#039;re alone.  

Please know that I love you very much and I will continue to pray for you.  I&#039;ve said it before and I&#039;ll say it again ... I am truely blessed just to know you.  

You are one of the sweetest friends I have with a heart of solid gold.  Please don&#039;t let life change you.  You have the ability to change life. 

Please also know that you&#039;ve touched my life so that I&#039;m hurting because you&#039;re hurting.

And like Christine ... I&#039;m praying that something is done ... but more importantly something is done SOON.  PLEASE let me know if there is anything I can do.  I sincerely mean that!

I&#039;ll stop now because I too am crying right along with you and before long, my reply is going to be longer than your post!

I love you so much and I know you&#039;ll get through this.  You promise to keep the faith and keep praying ... and I promise to do the same!

Lotsa and lotsa hugs ...
Your true friend forever,
Anita :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can certainly add another sister who loves you very, very much, who has been blessed more times than I can count just by you being my friend and of course who is praying for you.</p>
<p>You have by no means scared me off.  I&#8217;m afraid you can&#8217;t get rid of me that easily dear &#8211; it&#8217;s going to take a lot more than this &#8211; yep, you&#8217;re stuck with me honey.</p>
<p>By posting this you&#8217;ve yet again showed me that you&#8217;re much more of a women than I am and even more stronger in your faith than I think I ever can be.</p>
<p>I was once told that God will never give you more than you can handle.  And trust me &#8230; I know exactly how hard that is to believe.  But I do try to remind myself many times that it is true.  Now I&#8217;m reminding you &#8230; He wouldn&#8217;t.  </p>
<p>I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;ve been through everything you&#8217;ve said but I can definitely say there are quite a few things you&#8217;ve mentioned that I have and I&#8217;m so, so sorry any of that has happened to you!  You have no idea how sorry I am.  </p>
<p>However, I&#8217;ll say it again, it only proves to me just how strong you really are &#8211; and you&#8217;re faith &#8211; wow, you&#8217;re much, much better Christian than I am.  I only hope to someday be as strong as yourself!  Keep the faith honey cause you sure do have a lot of it!  You don&#8217;t ever want to change this!</p>
<p>Sweetie &#8211; I find myself asking the same kind of questions over and over and over again!  That doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re whinny, weak or a bad person &#8211; it means you&#8217;re HUMAN.  It doesn&#8217;t make you any worse of a person than any others.  You&#8217;re just big enough to admit it as many of us would not be able to do.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to belive my husband and I are pretty good people and go out of our way to help anyone we can.  We are those kind of people who would give the shirts off our backs if you needed it.  We&#8217;ve practically done it.  We&#8217;ve opened our house free of charge, fed and given money to several of our friends in our past.  I find myself saying &#8211; So why is it that we&#8217;re struggling?  Where are all these people when WE need them.  Where is HE when we need him?  </p>
<p>He&#8217;s there &#8211; He really is.  We just don&#8217;t always see it like we should.  I hope you can see He really is. </p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t say all that to take away from you &#8230; I said that so you see you&#8217;re alone.  </p>
<p>Please know that I love you very much and I will continue to pray for you.  I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again &#8230; I am truely blessed just to know you.  </p>
<p>You are one of the sweetest friends I have with a heart of solid gold.  Please don&#8217;t let life change you.  You have the ability to change life. </p>
<p>Please also know that you&#8217;ve touched my life so that I&#8217;m hurting because you&#8217;re hurting.</p>
<p>And like Christine &#8230; I&#8217;m praying that something is done &#8230; but more importantly something is done SOON.  PLEASE let me know if there is anything I can do.  I sincerely mean that!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll stop now because I too am crying right along with you and before long, my reply is going to be longer than your post!</p>
<p>I love you so much and I know you&#8217;ll get through this.  You promise to keep the faith and keep praying &#8230; and I promise to do the same!</p>
<p>Lotsa and lotsa hugs &#8230;<br />
Your true friend forever,<br />
Anita <img src='http://laravelez.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Lara</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lara</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you all for the hugs, love, and prayers. :) It means more than you know...(((hugs)))</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you all for the hugs, love, and prayers. <img src='http://laravelez.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  It means more than you know&#8230;(((hugs)))</p>
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		<title>By: Christine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just wanted to say I&#039;m still praying for you. I am expecting BIG things for you. GOOD big things. 

Love you,
 
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just wanted to say I&#8217;m still praying for you. I am expecting BIG things for you. GOOD big things. </p>
<p>Love you,</p>
<p>XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX</p>
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		<title>By: Heather</title>
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		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lara, I am so sorry you are going through this.  I am not sure why it all keeps happening.

I know I have a hard time seeing the whole point behind the situations I go through. 

Life just always seem to be a roller coaster, one day it is up and the next day it is down, and some how we are suppose to stay steady in our faith and just trust God, and that is a hard thing to do.

But I do know this, you are good at staying strong in your faith through everything.  Yes, we all get discouraged and fearful at times, but God anticipates this because He knows we are just human, but even so He is still there, He has promised never to leave us.

Please know that I am praying for you and your situation.  ((hugs))  Please let me know if you need anything.

-Heather</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lara, I am so sorry you are going through this.  I am not sure why it all keeps happening.</p>
<p>I know I have a hard time seeing the whole point behind the situations I go through. </p>
<p>Life just always seem to be a roller coaster, one day it is up and the next day it is down, and some how we are suppose to stay steady in our faith and just trust God, and that is a hard thing to do.</p>
<p>But I do know this, you are good at staying strong in your faith through everything.  Yes, we all get discouraged and fearful at times, but God anticipates this because He knows we are just human, but even so He is still there, He has promised never to leave us.</p>
<p>Please know that I am praying for you and your situation.  ((hugs))  Please let me know if you need anything.</p>
<p>-Heather</p>
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		<title>By: Dianna</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dianna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Christine is so right. I&#039;m another that you have touched through all that you do and you are a human being too. Why shouldn&#039;t you feel like this. I mean I know I have in the past. I have screamed and cried out to God. &quot;WHY does this always happen to me?&quot;. I have even gone so far as to ask this question... &quot;WHY is it that people who are not christian are not dealing with this stuff?&quot; I mean at some point or another we have all gone through this. Believe me you have not scared me off. I&#039;m not a friend who leaves easily. 

I wish there was something I could do to help. I wish I could be there to give you a REAL hug. Let you cry on my shoulder. 

I love you though. Your my sister and we are a family of God and if we can&#039;t lean on our Christian brothers and sisters then who can we lean on? 

I LOVE ya,
Dianna</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Christine is so right. I&#8217;m another that you have touched through all that you do and you are a human being too. Why shouldn&#8217;t you feel like this. I mean I know I have in the past. I have screamed and cried out to God. &#8220;WHY does this always happen to me?&#8221;. I have even gone so far as to ask this question&#8230; &#8220;WHY is it that people who are not christian are not dealing with this stuff?&#8221; I mean at some point or another we have all gone through this. Believe me you have not scared me off. I&#8217;m not a friend who leaves easily. </p>
<p>I wish there was something I could do to help. I wish I could be there to give you a REAL hug. Let you cry on my shoulder. </p>
<p>I love you though. Your my sister and we are a family of God and if we can&#8217;t lean on our Christian brothers and sisters then who can we lean on? </p>
<p>I LOVE ya,<br />
Dianna</p>
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		<title>By: Christine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Sweet Lara,

Even if you decide to delete this, I think it&#039;s so brave of you to post it. I don&#039;t think you&#039;re whining at all. You never come across that way.

You have blessed so many people, myself included, over and over again. I don&#039;t know why you&#039;re going through your current struggles. I just know I&#039;ve been praying like crazy for you and your family.

I remember praying for your marriage. Look how far that&#039;s come since then. I know He will take care of you. I wish He&#039;d do it sooner, faster, UGH! He will do it. I know it.

You are an awesome woman of God. You are His precious child. You are loved by Him who knows you inside and out and by so many who have never met you in person. 

I wish I could make things better. Just know I&#039;m praying for you.

Love &amp; hugs,

Christine</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Sweet Lara,</p>
<p>Even if you decide to delete this, I think it&#8217;s so brave of you to post it. I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re whining at all. You never come across that way.</p>
<p>You have blessed so many people, myself included, over and over again. I don&#8217;t know why you&#8217;re going through your current struggles. I just know I&#8217;ve been praying like crazy for you and your family.</p>
<p>I remember praying for your marriage. Look how far that&#8217;s come since then. I know He will take care of you. I wish He&#8217;d do it sooner, faster, UGH! He will do it. I know it.</p>
<p>You are an awesome woman of God. You are His precious child. You are loved by Him who knows you inside and out and by so many who have never met you in person. </p>
<p>I wish I could make things better. Just know I&#8217;m praying for you.</p>
<p>Love &amp; hugs,</p>
<p>Christine</p>
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