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For many of us, the holidays can be kind of rough. If you're searching for a network of understanding friends, this ultra-nurturing community encourages you to express your heartfelt wishes and offer other members encouragement and acceptance. Not for the terminally snarky or emotionally-challenged, this is a good-spirited place to lend comfort and support.

diygifts
Feeling crafty? If you've got a few last folks on your holiday gift list, this is a great place to seed your creativity and generosity. You'll also discover wonderful DIY tips to decorate your home and entertain guests. Offering a no-frills-no-skills attitude that welcomes the cash-challenged and arts-phobic, you're sure to get ideas and make friends in the process.

cooking_club
A fun and friendly community dedicated to those who love to cook, whether you're a meat-and-potatoes type, an aspiring gourmand, and/or a vegan. In search of a brilliant dish to use up those weekly leftovers? Post your ingredients and you'll be whipping up a feast by dinner. You can also share favorite recipes. For Type A chefs, you can spice up your culinary repertoire with exciting cooking challenges.

stepstomarrow
When granddaughter, Jada, was born with leukemia, a donor-match was located and Jada made a miraculous recovery. In honor of her grandaughter's health, Jeanna has decided to walk across the country (in the dead of winter) to raise awareness and build support for the bone marrow registry (all that's required is a cheek swab). Follow Jeanna's remarkable journey as she travels the United States by foot.

taste_buds
Holidays provide a built-in excuse for indulgent entertaining. This all-purpose foodie community covers everything from homemade hangover cures to dinner party menus. Need quick advice? Get five-minute snack suggestions, low-fat ingredient substitutes, and even measurement conversions. Delicious recipes garnished with humorous advice. Yum.

naturesbeauty
Always on the lookout for compelling images, we were delighted to discover this flourishing community of artists who share a love of nature. Honoring the subject with photographs, paintings, sketches, prose, poetry, and other creative works, you'll be simultaneously riveted to your monitor and inspired to run helter skelter towards the nearest wooded dale.

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Hello,
My name is Kai and I just joined this community a few minutes ago. I have a situation I really need help with and I will appreciate any help anyone is willing to give.

I'm not really sure how much information I need to give. This happened some time ago but it's heavy on my mind.

As I said it was some months ago. I was lying on my bed and I was thinking about a young man I know and love very much. He's in a new relationship and I was in pain because he never spoke to me anymore. We had had a chance to be together but my fear ruined it. I was thinking about them together and I started crying. But before I could really get into it I heard a voice say, "Be patient." I stopped crying immediately and this incredible sense of peace stole over me. It was the voice of God. I just knew it had to be.

I was peaceful then but I'm not now. I'm not exactly sure what He meant. I know He wants me to wait but I haven't heard from Him since. Sad to say I am not a very patient person. I have heard him before and he told me to be patient about the same situation then too. I know He is likely saying more than that but...it's like I can't hear Him anymore. Is it that I can't hear Him or is He just not giving any details?

How...how do I listen for Him?

Thank you so much for your help.

I am new to the community. I'm a 22-year-old college student, and I'm really happy there is a place like this on LJ for Christians to talk.

I went to a function at school last night for this club that does a lot of projects around campus. It was a celebration for the end of a quarter, and we were going to a restaurant from the school -- only problem was that people had already started drinking when I got there, before they even left the school. I was under the impression that there would be a good amount of people to hang out with who wouldn't be drinking ... NOPE. So I left -- just slipped out the back door. I really didn't know what else to do. I wouldn't have been able to stay with them long enough to be a designated driver anyway, so I felt I really couldn't do much in the case of someone maybe needing help. I still feel weird about it though.

30 Days to Taming Your Tongue, by Deborah Smith Pegues.

It's very... enlightening. I don't want to say what impact it's had on me because it's made me realize how much I need to stop speaking, but I will say a little bit about the book itself.

( It's a little 130 page book... )