July 13, 2003

• Booster Rocket

  
  

  questions posed by quiltnmomi

  
  

  How open are you to the influence of a Booster Rocket?  Try thinking through the following questions:

  
  

  1.  Are you open enough to accept help?  Take pen in hand and note five offers of help in the past month.  Did you accept or decline them?

  
  

  
  

  Most of the time yes, I haven't always been this way.  I have grown in this area tremendously and only because of God's grace.  I have had to rely more on others to help me because as my health deteriorates I have to ask others for help.  I have learned now that if someone offers help, do NOT by any means ever turn it down.  I say this for several reasons. 

  
  

  
  

  1.  If someone wants to help me, I am not going to stop them, they can help and it will free me up to do something else that needs to be done.  There is always something that needs done in my life lol

  
  

  2.  If someone offers and is turned down, they may never offer again, and then that is equivalent to burning bridges in my book

  
  

  3.  If someone offers help, then how am I to know that it isn't God working through them and if I say no, then am I a stumbling block for that person?

  
  

  I get offers of help so much from my parents and from my dh and friends online that it is way too numerous to count and I am way too blessed to keep track of it.  So the answer to writing 5 things down is "I can't"  I know that I have had many more than 5, but unable to actually write them down.  I know that prayer is always there from my online friends, which is actually the biggest help there is.  I never turn down an offer to pray for me or my family.

  
  

  2.  Which Booster Rockets have you combined with successfully? How did you combine?  Letters, the Internet, phone calls, coffee dates?  List any and all people and methods that work.

  
  

  
  

  I have some really good friends, most of them have blogs, but some don't.  The one that have blogs are listed to the left   I am so blessed by so many of my friends it is mind boggling, they are always here for me and they never turn down help or support.  Right now, support and prayers are the best help anyone can give me and this I find on a regular basis.  Many times I feel like I don't deserve this sort of help.  And... I am not deserving of it, but it is freely given.  This is the part that simply boggles my mind.  Why anyone would want to help another.  But then I think, this is what God wants us to do.  God loves each and everyone of us so much that He wants to take care of us.  Part of being a Christian is listening to God and doing what He wants for us.  Part of that is being in communion with each other, you know, they cord of 3 strands.  God wants His love to shine through each of us.  This is the love and support that I am getting, the love of Christ through others.  I hope and I pray that I can and will do this for others as God calls me to do.  So... internet, blogs, email, cards, and phone calls, that is what works for me.  I am so busy most of the time here at home with the children, and want to be with my husband who is homebound basically, I don't have a lot of time for going out with friends. 

  
  

  3.  Who among your friends boosts your energy and their own?  Such relationships are mutually nutritious.  Pick up the phone and plan contact.

  
  

  
  

  I have regular contact with these people

  
  

  4.  Is your significant other a Booster Rocket?  This question may be painful.  Spend a gentle fifteen minutes writing on it.

  
  

  
  

  Yes, most of the time he is.  He has bouts of depression and difficulty with his health so there are times that the answer is no, but most of the time the answer is yes.  I am very blessed to have him as my dh.

  
  

  Questions from Julia Cameron's Supplies, A Troubleshooting Guide for Creative Difficulties.

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