@ Someday...your chart is SO looking good still! 16dpo and nothing yet is a great sign!! Are you having any symptoms or signs of AF? I'm not sure when I'll test...I've been waiting until a couple of days after I expect AF just so I don't waste a test...and I think the BFN are harder on me than AF just appearing
@ Evie...your chart is still looking good! I know what you mean about not feeling pregnant, but like Immi said every pregnancy is different! I didn't know (and was completely surprised) that I was pregnant with dd3 until I started getting nausea at about 7 weeks...so you never know!!!
@Dahlia...yes, I had my oldest when I was almost 23 and with my last I was 27...that's all I need is no more babies, thinking I'm done and then "Surprise!" when I'm 40 with a baby! LOL! I'm so excited for you this month!! The ov watch sounds like a great invention!!!
@Buttercup...praying with you, hun! I'm 9dpo, so we're pretty close! How long are your LPs usually?
One last thing about your question, Dahlia...I actually think that concept of God is not healthy...that somehow God would "punish" you (by withholding blessings) because of sin...I grew up with this vindictive view of God that I'm still trying to let go of...I believe that it tramples on the true nature of God, which is unfailing love and everlasting mercy. Listen to these verses from the Psalms:
"The Lord is compassionate and merciful,
Slow to anger, and
abounding in mercy.
He will not become angry to the end,
Nor will He be wrathful forever;
He did not deal with us according to our transgressions;
For according to the height of heaven from earth,
So the Lord reigns in mercy over those who fear Him;
As far as the east is from the west,
So He removes our transgressions from us...
For He knows how He formed us;
He remembers we are dust....
But the mercy of the Lord is from age to age upon those who fear Him..."
-Psalm 103:8-17
The short answer is that I don't think God rewards or punishes based on how holy we are--we can never do enough to earn his love, right? So, we should not think that we could ever do enough to make him love us more! "We love because He first loved us." I John 4:10
And the whole second chapter of Ephesians is awesome. Here's a few tidbits: "But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus..." All God wants for His children is to show us the exceeding riches of His grace! I believe that we experience those riches when we live lives that are pleasing to Him, not necessarily because He blesses us for our "right" living, but because experiencing those riches are a
natural consequence of living like Christ!
Now, for the person that you have issues with...give it to God. Everytime you start to think of him and that distaste comes to your mind, choose to not dwell on it. We can't control the thoughts that pop into our head, but we CAN control how long we play with those thoughts, and allow them to bounce around. Pray for him. (That always does it for me!) Praying helps me to see that person from God's perspective--as a person loved and created by God, and made in the image of God. Man, that's so hard sometimes, isn't it!!
Thank you, Dahlia, for asking this question! It really helps me to think things through, and as you can see I process externally!
So, as much as my thoughts on the matter may or may not help you, they have really been a great reminder to me!
And sorry for the "sermon", but I love talking about the Love of God!
!!! Next cycle, I'm off to get me a thermometer!!!!!!!
Yeah, my discharge is hard to figure out...I think I just always have CM no matter the circumstance! lol!
Hang in there!
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