tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270245506969727628.post380797349837722265..comments2024-03-27T06:51:19.327-06:00Comments on The Rains Came Down: A Woman's DesireSilverRainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00580230961425635077noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270245506969727628.post-17737397513599459552012-11-01T00:07:09.376-06:002012-11-01T00:07:09.376-06:00The one quibble that I have with this post is that...The one quibble that I have with this post is that YOU failed as a wife. I beg to differ. But you know that already. ;)<br /><br />The concept of being still is something I haven't ever been good at, either. Even though the specifics are different, I'm feeling much of what you are talking about -- being forced to slow down and re-assess and figuring out that I don't really know what IMichellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08215431222961203620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270245506969727628.post-36711447890133936592012-10-08T21:37:19.949-06:002012-10-08T21:37:19.949-06:00I can't believe I missed this post! I've ...I can't believe I missed this post! I've got to pay better attention, or maybe reduce the blogs I follow. I don't like missing this one!<br /><br />I completely understand the difficulty of feeling rudderless, without direction. Even though I've come through a similar marriage and divorce, and am now married again, I don't get the time I'd like to be a father, and have Frank Pelletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08830375239700028422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270245506969727628.post-83474974449185895032012-10-05T12:42:26.102-06:002012-10-05T12:42:26.102-06:00Again, love the post. I really can relate and appr...Again, love the post. I really can relate and appreciate your candid and honest thoughts. Brad's gaggle of girlshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08515990446752423610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270245506969727628.post-31036937237493234622012-09-27T12:18:39.516-06:002012-09-27T12:18:39.516-06:00You're not a failure. Love may come again. Y...You're not a failure. Love may come again. You can find another career. I think that the church burdens people with a perfection they can never attain. I think sometimes we long for former days without understanding that they came with a seedy backside. Child labor was rampant. People lived in dire poverty in absolute squalor without running water in horrid tenements. When we study theSavvyDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02380401063646153237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270245506969727628.post-57900881195945648852012-09-25T07:26:36.926-06:002012-09-25T07:26:36.926-06:00You are not alone in your struggles. All I ever wa...You are not alone in your struggles. All I ever wanted to be was a wife and mother. Well I've been there and done that; our children are almost all raised and I'm wondering what I'm going to do with the rest of my life. I've had times when I've felt a failure in life because I didn't get a college degree, no career training and although I'm well educated (self) I don&#Rozy Lasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019413665136390175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270245506969727628.post-80796363637506704612012-09-24T20:16:45.072-06:002012-09-24T20:16:45.072-06:00"I have failed at the task I have been set by..."I have failed at the task I have been set by the Lord to be a wife, and I have failed at my own desires to be a scientist. So I don't know where to go. Though I am still young, I am at the end of my journey."<br /><br />I hope that you do not put all of the blame on the failure of your marriage upon yourself. In your message I detected a bit of anguish/sadness about the man who youGlenn Thigpenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16289698106336334148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270245506969727628.post-19064417035954669292012-09-20T15:41:00.871-06:002012-09-20T15:41:00.871-06:00Lovely post, SR. The penultimate paragraph is the...Lovely post, SR. The penultimate paragraph is the winner for me. I kept catching myself wanting to comfort you (by giving you advice, of course) throughout the post, but that paragraph put me in my place and made me realize that while I do not share your experience, I, too, after over half a century of life, and learning to be still. Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11294214866282354575noreply@blogger.com