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Hello Winny and any who rest here a while, I'm NEW to this group and website. Thank you Winny for inviting me. I'm glad they take the time to approve people. So, I come to glean a bit of encouragement and I hope I can also leave some here. I suffer…
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CHEMIICAL CLEANSERS & MAKE UP - I have stopped using store or pharmacy makeup, cleansers, moisturisers etc and body washes, the chemical cocktail sends me through the roof. I use all natural products and have done for over 12 years. They effect my a…
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Things to note: If you are using our network inappropriately, we are not hesitant to ban your membership. We always try to be fair, but the integrity of the ministry will never be risked due to posts or peddling of products, books, etc.


Find safety tips here at Ning. Remember that your info CAN be found online or even through Google searches. Once it is posted, it can take weeks to get it out of Google indexing even AFTER the information has been deleted.

1) All are welcome but please remember that this is a Christian environment. Use discretion, compassion and wisdom with any postings.

2) The Sunroom is a place for individuals to find encouragement and friendships among others who live with chronic illness. Basically PLAY NICE.

3) This social network does not allow any kind of advertising or promotion of one’s own web site, book, blog, company, etc. within your postings except as the 15-word footer as explained below. Repeatedly posting about your own resources as part of engaging in conversations will be seen as advertising. For example, if it's obvious you are pasting the same welcome message to numerous people just so you can mention your 15-word footer, is not allowed. You are allowed a 15-word footer to your postings to let people know about your book, chat room, web site. For example, “Free download to a chapter of my book for the chronically ill see www.restministries.org

4) Paid advertising is available for a very low cost for people or members wishing to reach Sunroom members with their message. Members cannot recruit for other networks and websites, nor solicit other members about products and services. One warning will be given with clarification and then you risk being banned from our room.

5) Under no circumstances, posting of nudity or profanity in this network is allowed.

6) All images, music, videos, etc. that you post you must own the rights to or have permission to post.

7) Rest Ministries does not provide medical advice. No information found here should be interpreted as such.

8) Rest Ministries reserves the right to remove or ban members, postings or groups for any reason.

9) Though Rest Ministries does their best to remove any questionable materials as soon as possible, they cannot be held responsible for the posts of others on this site.

10) Please do not post messages about politics unless is specifically relates to illness issues.

11) Rest Ministries reserves the right to remove/delete any messages, photos, profile accounts or any other form of information at any time. If you have a profile w/o any content, bio, etc. it may be removed w/o notice.

To report misconduct, please click on Feedback below or email Lisa, Sunroom "owner." See top of this column.
 

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You will find loads of joy, compassion and understanding here, all from people who live with illness each day. Many mornings it's hard to get out of bed... but we take one moment at a time and having friends to share it all with make it a bit easier. Each post makes the Sunroom richer, so even if you are feeling a bit down and out, go ahead and share your thoughts. Not only may someone cheer you up, you will likely validate exactly what someone else is feeling who just hasn't yet felt comfortable enough to write about it.

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Latest Post From Rest Ministries Web Site

Finding Patience With God’s Plans

“I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in His word I put my hope.” (Psalm 130:5) I am impatient. It takes everything in me to wait on the Lord. I started off the new year eager to get back to the basics in life: time with God, time with my family, time to write. [...] Related posts:
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Todays' Daily Devotionals from Rest Ministries

Finding Patience With God’s Plans

“I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in His word I put my hope.” (Psalm 130:5) I am impatient. It takes everything in me to wait on the Lord. I started off the new year eager to get back to the basics in life: time with God, time with my family, time to write. [...] Related posts:
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  2. Trying to Understand Suffering
  3. Keeping our Vision

Blog Posts

Kevin

Nourishing the Spirit - Part 13

Minimizing Luxuries for Spiritual Well-Being
© 2009 Kevin Allen

Fats, oils, sweets represent the least needed portion of our diet. They are luxuries. For good health, it is important to hold strict limitations on them. The same is true spiritually. Remember the parable about the rich man?

The current economic crisis should teach us about the danger of placing too much value on luxuries. People across the United States have acquired more debt than they can handle. Financial institutions… Continue

Posted by Kevin on February 6, 2010 at 12:00am

Joyce Phillips in CA

~I'm on my way back~

My Dear friends in Christ,
I am in awe of the love and encouragement I've found here at RM even after a year of recuperation! I have been seperated in body only, and lift you all in prayer and supplication daily; through any pain I feel, I pray for yours and know I can make it through.
Your prayers for me have seen me through a year, I thought I could not survive. I am steadly on my feet, standing on God's promises! He said he would never leave me or forsake me, so I can, we can do allContinue

Posted by Joyce Phillips in CA on February 3, 2010 at 10:44pm — 1 Comment

Nancy

Ponder This. . .

There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She
hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always
there for her. She told her boyfriend, 'If I could only see
the world, I would marry you.'

One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages
came off, she was able to see everything, including her
boyfriend.

He asked her, 'Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?' The
girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The
sight of his clo… Continue

Posted by Nancy on February 3, 2010 at 8:20pm — 3 Comments

Pearlie

Medicines a blessing and a curse.

I haven't been on here as oftern as I would like to but I have been going through some very difficult times. I do want all my friends to know they are in my prayers even when I'm not active in the sunroom.
I wanted to post this warning today not to put fear in anyone, but to alert everyone of how the blessing of medicine, and I do believe in general it is a blessing, can also be a great curse.
I went to the dentist yesterday to have a tooth pulled. It is my lower left back tooth. My mouth is ext… Continue

Posted by Pearlie on January 30, 2010 at 11:30am

 
 

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