Comments on: How Much Do We Need to Know? https://lisanotes.com/how-much-do-we-need-to-know/ on Life and Love Mon, 28 Dec 2020 23:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Tea With Jennifer https://lisanotes.com/how-much-do-we-need-to-know/#comment-318586 Sun, 13 Dec 2020 21:43:50 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=24670#comment-318586 We can never really know as those genetic tests can only give a percentage never a certainty because so many things can happen or not happen to change that percentile.

Our certainty is definitely in our relationship with our heavenly Father. Whatever our last days on earth will be He knows & He will be with us, as He is now.
And in that I rest, otherwise we don’t live life in the precious moments He gives us in the here & now… 😀
Bless you Lisa,
Jennifer

]]> By: Donna Reidland https://lisanotes.com/how-much-do-we-need-to-know/#comment-318535 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:56:35 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=24670#comment-318535 I think God shows us what we need to know and what He knows we can handle. Partly because of His grace in not giving us too much and partly to help us learn to rely on Him. Thanks for sharing about these 2 books.

]]> By: Susan Shipe https://lisanotes.com/how-much-do-we-need-to-know/#comment-318516 Thu, 10 Dec 2020 19:53:19 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=24670#comment-318516 I’m going to heaven when I die. Do I want to go today? Probably not! I would rather not know!

]]> By: Jean Wise https://lisanotes.com/how-much-do-we-need-to-know/#comment-318481 Wed, 09 Dec 2020 14:49:19 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=24670#comment-318481 great side by side books to discuss. Yes we live with too much information and options – no wonder we freeze at times and are indecisive. Interesting to read your blog post right after I ordered the health info through Ancestry.com DNA link – possibly learning of a gene in my make up that isn’t good. Will be interesting to see how i react emotionally to this new info… LOL

]]> By: Lynn D. Morrissey https://lisanotes.com/how-much-do-we-need-to-know/#comment-318456 Tue, 08 Dec 2020 20:51:46 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=24670#comment-318456 Oh, I know Mariel (and your name reminds me of her daughter’s name, Murielle). I’m so glad you knew Shelly and of her wonderful ministry to so many. We may give thanks for her beautiful life and that she has left a treasury of writing and photos behind. She was such a dear, dear friend.
xo
Lynn

]]> By: mariel https://lisanotes.com/how-much-do-we-need-to-know/#comment-318454 Tue, 08 Dec 2020 19:47:51 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=24670#comment-318454 Lisa, I love this post and all your sweet words of review on these books. I am in the middle of shelly’s book right now and kept nodding through all that you said! I am going to order the other book. I have not heard of it before and it sounds really interesting! Thank you for sharing these!

]]> By: mariel https://lisanotes.com/how-much-do-we-need-to-know/#comment-318453 Tue, 08 Dec 2020 19:46:04 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=24670#comment-318453 In reply to Lynn D. Morrissey.

what a gift her book has been to so many, and more than that, her testimony of who her God is! thank you for sharing this, Lynn!

]]> By: Lynn D. Morrissey https://lisanotes.com/how-much-do-we-need-to-know/#comment-318451 Tue, 08 Dec 2020 18:43:53 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=24670#comment-318451 Lisa, I’m so glad you are reading Shelly’s book. I knew her personally, and miss her more than I can say. I’ve read nearly everything she wrote. Shelly grew up where I live in St. Louis, but our childhoods couldn’t have been more starkly different. I grew up in the certainty of my parents’ love, and she did not. Yet God had His hands on Shelly from the time she was born, and ordered her steps and protected her from ultimate harm. He used those dire circumstances and deep uncertainties of her growing-up years to shape her into the beautiful woman she would become. Shelly was diagnosed with sarcoma, a deadly and fast-spreading cancer, for which she received extensive, grueling surgery. She remained certain of God’s love throughout this ordeal, and He actually strengthened her to do a book launch not long after her surgery. Can you imagine? As an author, myself, I can’t! Writing a book and its subsequent launch, frankly, are exhausting. And the cancer had returned on top of it! But God gave her courage and strength and ability to comfort *others* despite what she endured. We kept praying for a miracle, and she had the certainty that God could perform it. But she also knew He might not. Still, she loved Christ so much, and knew that either way, she had the certainty of His love and the certainty of being with Him eternally. And now, she is! I highly recommend the book.

And to answer your question, yes, there are *certain* things I would not wish to know. But I want always to be certain of His love, care, grace, and provision.

Bless you,
Lynn

]]> By: Lesley https://lisanotes.com/how-much-do-we-need-to-know/#comment-318449 Tue, 08 Dec 2020 18:29:21 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=24670#comment-318449 Generally I like certainty, but I agree there are some things we are better not knowing. I think I’m gradually learning to trust that God knows what he’s doing and I don’t have to know it all – it’s a journey! I like the idea of reframing our uncertainties through the certainty of God’s love.

]]> By: Laurie https://lisanotes.com/how-much-do-we-need-to-know/#comment-318448 Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:58:43 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=24670#comment-318448 I do struggle with uncertainty, especially now in the pandemic. The certainty of God’s love is a better focus of my energies. I do think I need to be more comfortable with uncertainty. Your post made me think of this quote by Madeleine L’Engle: “Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.”

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