Ever just get tired?

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once upon a time ago I did. now I just go with the flow. I am physically tired all the time, sleep like a rock for OLNY 4 hours a night, SUCKS !
 
Sure,that happens from time to time.
Plenty of things that can get me back on track,either getting something done to my Duster,go out and run some or go to the gym,but the best reset i have found so far is to go for a hike with my GF and carry everything we need in backpacks for a week or so without seeing civilization.
 
Fridge died yesterday. Not much in there as it was the second fridge. Did lose tomorrow nights pork cushion that I was going to smoke. Not real sure about the 45-50 pounds of smoked cheese. Cheese was very spongy feeling...have no idea how many days the frodge was dead. Then there was the incident with someone grabbing some ice packs out of the freezer so we could grab a few things while we were in town, looking for a fridge. Home Depot, Lowes and Best Buys had none in stock. Missed the first day of the Nitro/alcohol/275R/10.5 class.
Got out of bed very early, Ernie had to be in town very early. Got up to get a cup of coffee, had this really bizarre pain/numbness thing develop in my right leg....to the point I was in tears. Still hurts like a sonofabeech. Shouldn't go to the track....but I am...fraid if I don't I'm going to do something to end all this effing pain once and for all...really tired of this crap...
 
Fridge died yesterday. Not much in there as it was the second fridge. Did lose tomorrow nights pork cushion that I was going to smoke. Not real sure about the 45-50 pounds of smoked cheese. Cheese was very spongy feeling...have no idea how many days the frodge was dead. Then there was the incident with someone grabbing some ice packs out of the freezer so we could grab a few things while we were in town, looking for a fridge. Home Depot, Lowes and Best Buys had none in stock. Missed the first day of the Nitro/alcohol/275R/10.5 class.
Got out of bed very early, Ernie had to be in town very early. Got up to get a cup of coffee, had this really bizarre pain/numbness thing develop in my right leg....to the point I was in tears. Still hurts like a sonofabeech. Shouldn't go to the track....but I am...fraid if I don't I'm going to do something to end all this effing pain once and for all...really tired of this crap...

Lets not go there please... You mentioned someone who, I'm sure would like to have you around..
Not to mention the 3 of us who care enough to respond to your thread. We've all been there.
Some may say, 'life is what you make of it' , but I'll go one better. 'it's discovering how valuable you really are'. I'll give you a hit, you cannot perceive it.
 
Yes, since I started receiving Social Security this year I feel like I am stuck in a pool and just treading water, not much incentive to do anything, just waiting around to witness the next tragedy on the evening news.
 
Fridge died yesterday. Not much in there as it was the second fridge. Did lose tomorrow nights pork cushion that I was going to smoke. Not real sure about the 45-50 pounds of smoked cheese. Cheese was very spongy feeling...have no idea how many days the frodge was dead. Then there was the incident with someone grabbing some ice packs out of the freezer so we could grab a few things while we were in town, looking for a fridge. Home Depot, Lowes and Best Buys had none in stock. Missed the first day of the Nitro/alcohol/275R/10.5 class.
Got out of bed very early, Ernie had to be in town very early. Got up to get a cup of coffee, had this really bizarre pain/numbness thing develop in my right leg....to the point I was in tears. Still hurts like a sonofabeech. Shouldn't go to the track....but I am...fraid if I don't I'm going to do something to end all this effing pain once and for all...really tired of this crap...

That sucks to hear, but dont dig a hole for yourelf over it,as has been pointed out here there are others out there that care for you and things will turn around eventualy given time just try to do things and that will help you.
Im not a doctor and dont know if you have seen a doctor regarding your leg but it could very well be something simple as having had to much preasure on a nerve for alitle to long.(have heard that its not to uncomon if you have worn to small pants for to long among other reasons that are less than catastrophic but if you havent already done so please have a doctor check it)
 
I'm the guy that got a quilt from you and the wife, a few years back.
I'm still "kickin" and on top of planet Earth, but it seems like every other time that i go over to the Mather VA, they diagnose me with something different.
Old age sure sucks for a lot of folks, but what can ya really do about it?
Just gotta hang in there the best one can.
hemi71x
Jim V.
 
Inkjunkie,
I'm not any kind of a doctor and Ive never met you. But I can tell you that you have value to more people then you realize.
If there's pain you need to see a doctor. As for sleeping i understand the lack of sleep and its knock down effect. Let the Doctor know about that as well as the pain. All of that is fixable!
Since I don't know you I will ask if you have any children. If so take some time and contact them. You will find that a good conversation with them will put a smile on your face.
If you have grandchildren go see them. Hug them and the worlds problems go away because they dont know anything but how to be kids! Grandchildren can change a bad day into a great day in a hurry.
And if you need someone to chat with I promise you I will always answer my phone if your interested in talking. Just shoot me a PM for a phone number.
Again remember, you mean something to many but sometimes we dont realize how valuable we really are.
Stay strong!!
Rod
 
Inky man , I feel for you.
I turned 65 this summer. I hear ya about not having ambition to do stuff like I used to. And I hear ya about not getting the same amount of sleep as I used to. But I got a couple of stories to tell you, that I hope perk you up.
The first is short but (ohchit I forgot the word I wanna use; like poignant but not). It's my kidney-stone story.
When one of them buggers decides to move, I found it pretty painful. You see I'm a pretty healthy guy, and not of my will, but by God's will (different story). So when I get a pain, right away it's the worst pain I ever had. And so it was with that ripper-stone. I thought something inside me had exploded and death was imminent.
Anyway I woke up the wife and we set out for the hospital, in the middle of the night, which is a 25 minute ride. TWENTY-FIVE friggen minutes. So I'm rolling around in the back of the Escape trying to find a comfortable position and there ain't one. Now there is no debilitation that goes with this pain, just MONSTER pain. So, we get there and I walk into the reception area as if I was like a 30 year old, except moaning and groaning. And the receptionist/nurse thinks I'm stabbed but no blood ; well I don't know what she's thinking but she sure ain't on the same page as me. So I tell miss slow-as-mollasses,I-need-your-health-card, date of birth,etc, yadayadayada, I tell her I think something is ruptured inside me and I need a doctor to cut it out or KILL-ME-NOW, cuz this pain is too much! So along saunters a man in white coveralls and says he needs to do a scan to see what's going on inside me. Oh geez how long is THIS gonna take. But first he gets a nurse to stick me with needles.
Settle down Mr. he says; we put some morphine in you, and that will make you feel better.
Hot dam. that needle wasn't in me long enough to perceive and I was all better, send me home I'm OK now.
Settle down Mr. he says; We still need to scan you. So he sits me down in a wheelchair and off we go to the scanner. After a million minutes, oh he says, it's about 7mm. What is says I? You have a kidney stone migrating from your kidney to your bladder. What ? Is that all; you mean I'm not dying? No Mr. just a kidneystone. And there are six more that I can see.
So by this time I have been here more than an hour, maybe 90 minutes. And the morphine maintenance drip is making me drowsy, well that and the fact that it's still the middle of the night, and I am extremely relieved to know that my healthy self is not gonna die tonight.
So they wheel me into a room where I can sleep it off, buuuuut there's no such thing as sleeping in a hospital. Then I find out the liquids they have been jamming down my throat, and up my arm, have a reason...... to make me pee! and flush that jagged pos killer-stone into the cup they provide me with, saying I'm sorry Mr. you can't go home until you birth that stinking 7mm rock thru your little tiny.............. uretra,lol. See I bet you thought I was gonna say something else.... didn't you.
Anyway I tried to sleep between all the peeing, but when the sun came up, the **** was in the pail,and I could finally go home..... and yes to work, both of us; the Mrs. drove again.

Ok now here's where it gets interesting.
I confessed my faith in the Son, to God in 94, and came out of that fog in about 2000, and out of the next fog about 2010, and finally started getting with the program in about 2014. I'm a healthy old fart, but not the brightest Christian that was ever born again. It took me 20 years to figure out that the church did not have my best interests at heart..... and neither did any televangelist. And it took another 3 to 4 years of serious study to find out how to get and keep, my soul on the narrow path that leads to eternal life. The stone came in about 2016.
Ok that's the intro.
So I knew that God wants to heal His children. So why did God not answer the fervent prayers of this old fart when I thought there was no greater pain EVER, than this stinking stone? Come on, can you guess? Well the Christians make up all kinds of excuses, for unanswered prayer. They perish for lack of knowledge, (yeah I know, different application, but same ending). Before Jesus left, what did He tell His disciples? He said GREATER WORKS than these will YOU do...... YOU do.
Connect the dots with me: When God Almighty YHWH departed the face of the Earth, He sent Jesus. God is no longer on the Earth.
After His Resurrection and about 500 other people came up out of their graves with Him, Jesus could not leave until the Holy Spirit came down to Earth, like 50 days later at Pentecost. Then, upon the arrival of the Spirit, Jesus ascended to sit at the right hand of His father. Jesus is not on the face of this Earth.
Only the Holy Spirit is.
But before Jesus left, He GAVE His disciples the POWER to do greater works. Greater than what? Greater than: Healings..,Feeding,Regrowth of limbs and eyes, and Miracles like raising the dead. What? Well you'll have to read about it......
Well it turns out that I am a disciple of Jesus now, He knows AJ!
So when I was begging God to take the pain away, I shoulda been commanding the pain to be gone MYSELF !!
But hang on is it really that simple?
Yes and no.
You see, Jesus took to the cross, all our sicknesses, diseases, and infirmities. I believe that with all my heart. Why do you suppose I am 65 and in full health, if a little overweight? You might say cuz it's in my genes. I cannot argue that, but you have to know that on my Mother's side,( and physically speaking I most resemble her), on her side diabetes runs strong with no exception; everyone gets it............ except me. On Daddy's side, heart attacks are common, as is cancer. Almost every one dies by one or the other. I am surrounded on all sides by sickness, disease and infirmities..... yet none touch me.I am older than most of my ancestors were when they expired. Why do you suppose this might be?
I'll tell you why, cuz Jesus took those sicknesses and infirmities and diseases to the cross. All the ones scheduled to kill me, Jesus took so I wouldn't have to. And Jesus changed my genes.
I know what you might be thinking...... AJ's a crackpot. I can't argue that either, I'm just a guy who has learned to read the Bible, and believe what it says.
I'm none too bright about anything in particular, so if God says do this, that, or the other thing, then I just go do it. Cuz the reward is worth anything I have to do or give up.
Back to the Holy Spirit; why is He here. Well the Bible says He wanders the earth listening for the word of God to be spoken, and to perform it. So it would seem all I have to do is extract the Words of God from the text, and speak them over myself, and the Holy Spirit will see to it that the Words of God will not return to God void.
But why do I believe?
Well that leads to the second story.

But first, Ink, I don't know where you are in your Spiritual walk, and it's really not my business to ask. But I gotta tell you, that God is not willing that any should Perish. And the verse means essentially that God wants EVERYBODY to come to receive the "power to become a Son of God", which is what we the Believers, will be known as, in the New-Kingdom; namely Sons of God.
But He gives to everyone the FREEWILL to choose; death or LIFE. And no-choice at all, is already a death choice. With God, there is no in-between; you're either for Him or against Him.
Therefor choose LIFE.
Once you are on God's side, you have access to all the promises, the blessings, and the Loves of YOUR Creator and of your savior, called Jesus the Christ.

You wanna hear the second story?
 
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Cheer up.....Things could be worse.

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I’m tired.
I ache always.
My legs feel like they are going to give out.
When i used to walk with my wife i would always be waiting for her to catch up.
Im behind everybody now. Didnt really dawn on me until 4 of us went to vegas.

Sleep?
There isnt a pillow that doesent make my neck ache or a mattress that doesent hurt my back.

Its a struggle. But as long as i can walk and talk i just keep going. Slower than i before,but i still keep moving.

If im standing,i wanna sit,if im sitting i want to lie down,if i laying down i need to get up.

You could say i have a high tolerance for pain,this isnt pain,its tired.
I put it behind me and push forward. To at the very least get my work done.
We all deal with it differently,i have a reason to go on,i’m sure you do too.
Live life. Make the best of it.
 
Ink knows we love him around here, that’s why he comes to us when he’s feeling down. My best advise is to take small bites, it may not seem like you’re getting very far, until you look back and see how much you’ve accomplished. The fridge sucks, those things are expensive nowadays, but at least it’s your 2nd fridge. And the boys are right, Ernie should be your guiding light, she needs you, and you need her, you’re a team. We can give you all the support and advise we can, but Ernie and the pups are the front line, and couldn’t do without you! Keep peace in your heart Doug, and take it slow and steady!
 
Caught hell with being tired all the time and with everything when my wife died three yrs. ago.
Came across this quote my father jotted down digging thru family archives that helped pull me out of it.
“ Life is 10% about what happens to you & 90% about what you do about what happens to you”
 
I understand being tired and frustrated. And this may seem trivial. But im 38 and suffer from adult acne. There are days where it gets me down like u wouldnt believe. I pray 2 b normal every day. I often wonder if my son(who is 6) is embarrassed by my appearance. Yet every night when i put him 2 bed and tell him i love him it all goes away. Basically im saying hold on to the good and not the bad. Pain is temporary love is forever
 
Believers, as separate and distinct from Christians, do not have to suffer the afflictions of the enemys. Yes plural. Any Christian that thinks every affliction is authored by satan, is not studying his Bible. satan is far too busy to do it all. He took 1/3 of the heavenly host with him when he was cast down. Since the remaining heavenly host is innumerable, you can bet satan has a lot of disciples, underlings,doing his dirty work for him, and these are in addition to the evil spirits, and generational curses.
The power to overcome was given to the believers about two millennia ago.
 
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If the news makes you sad, stop listening or watching. I quit watching the big 3 news since all they want to do is peddle trash.
 
If the news makes you sad, stop listening or watching. I quit watching the big 3 news since all they want to do is peddle trash.
To be frank the "alternative newsources" are not any better,they just have a different agenda.
I believe alot of people are tired and worn mentaly from to much information all the time and need to get out more to see and do things,some of the mentalstrain can also express itself physicly over time.
 
There's no way for me to prove this
but it seems that "news" is not news anymore, but rather, is propaganda.I haven't watched any TV-news for well over 4 years now. Probably closer to 6 years.
As a believer, tho, I do keep an eye on what's going on in and around Israel, because there are many many end-time prophecies yet to be fulfilled, that involve her. But I don't dwell on it anymore because I have set a course with destiny, and my ship is steered towards the New Kingdom; I just have to stay the course.
On the home front, I am sad that none of my three kids wants to hear the gospel, so if they continue on that road, there will come a day after which I will never see them again. Also on the home-front; it's business as usual, I still have to mow the grass and shovel the driveway, etc. And I can see the day rapidly approaching, when I will have to sell the house to buy food, so as not to starve. This sounds scary to think about or say, and for some, would actually be scary.But I am ready to go, not eager yet, but ready spiritually and mentally. Yet my body is being preserved for something, it seems, so I'll have to wait to see how it all plays out. The time is drawing near for prophecy to unfold. The board is laid out, the game pieces are mostly installed. Soon the cosmic chess-game will begin; satan will make a move, then God a counter move, and so it will go. The thing is, the outcome of the game has been prophesied thousands of years ago. satan is just a puppet. God's masterplan will not be foiled by said puppet, but rather satan is the major player in it . satan is what I call the great separator; he will separate the goats from the sheep. And thus make the goats an easy target for Yashuwah to slaughter. After the goats are thus reaped, the Sheep will be left standing, waiting for their shepherd to call them one-by-one, by name, to receive their inheritance.
And so it is that I wait with great anticipation, for my name to be called, and it matters not to me on which side of the sod my body is when I hear it. I think, this is the peace that passes all understanding; peace about the end of life, the last breath. Life on earth is just a test. A test to see who will accept Yashuwah as King of kings and Lord of lords. A test to determine who will willingly be obedient to God's Laws and Commands. And a test to see who will worship Him.
That is the First and Greatest Commandment; to love the LORD (YHWH) your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your might.......... And John tells us how to do that; by obedience to God's Laws and Commands. After that our mandate is to ENDURE to the end.
So why worry? Who by worrying ever added a cubit to his stature. We are commanded not to worry. Worrying is stress and people die from being stressed out. Worrying is anti-Christ; the worrier is not believing and trusting God to take care of him. I see my future as "there's nothing I can or want to do, to alter God's time-table". Bring it on I say. The sooner the better I say. Every day that God tarrys, is one more day of babies being murdered to satisfy satans blood-lust. And every day that God tarrys is one more day of the muslims murdering Christians. And one more day that the the earth cries out to God for the blood of the innocents. And one more day that the souls of the martyrs cry out from under the altar, "How long oh LORD must we wait?".
Come quickly Lord Yashuwah.
So, there is an agenda ,in the media,to keep people in the dark, by preaching lies, lies, and more lies. We are being indoctrinated, distracted, and miss-informed. This is the adult form of schooling. The difference is adults can unplug, whereas, by law, children are brainwashed with no escape.
I urge anyone reading this, to unplug, and to get their soul right with God. My greatest hope is to meet you on the other side of death, and swap stories, and to be equally yoked.
Ink, including most especially you.
God wants to bless you, as he wants to bless all his children. All things work together for those who love the LORD(YHWH). God wants to BLESS us. He provided the path, we just have to get on it. The path began at the gates to the Promised Land, when YHWH married the Israelites and itemized the marriage covenant, and listed the Blessings and the Cursings. The path was opened up to the Gentiles by Yashuwah, at the time of His ministry; that's us, any non-Israelite.We are the second stick, that Yashuwah joins to the first, and the wild Olive branch, that He grafts in.
Get right, be blessed.
 
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Hope things get better for you Ink. I feel your pain bearly walk the last week. My wife had to take me to E/R yesterday have two kidney stones and a nerve tie up in the back. Get up in the morning try to find a place on the couch that's comfy. It sucks right now.
 
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