Sometimes it's hard to respond in a Christian way

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For the past few months I’ve been studying for a vocational qualification which hopefully will enable me to find employment. In just over an hours time I’m due to drive nearly 100 miles in rush hour traffic to sit an exam, all of which has cost me £600.
Unfortunately, my neighbours in the upstairs apartment decided to party tonight and the noise has only just stopped. Instead of awaking refreshed and ready, I’m sitting here feeling more like a zombie through lack of sleep. I cant imagine getting through the drive much less the exam.
I am trying very hard not to be angry.
 
This is an oppurtunity which God has given you to rely on His mercy. Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Anxiety is useless.

You can turn your anger into mercy by meditating upon the Passion of Jesus Christ.
 
next time id suggest calling in a noise complaint to the cops. the laws are there for a reason. chalk it up to a learning experience and hope the test goes well.
 
Prayers inc! Trust in Him, if you have prepared He will help you remember, sleepy or not. Say a prayer and have faith, you will do well!

Joe
 
You are in my prayers because there are times when I feel like walking out to the kids jumping up and down on their skateboards in front of my house and pop them each in the nose. Why? I work graveyard shift. They KNOW I work graveyard shift. They have been asked again and again and again to please pop their skateboards up and down on the pavement in front of their OWN house…and there are many times when I am thinking “I can beat them all senseless with the garden hose and then go to confession…really, I promise I will”.

So I know how you feel and hang in there…and put down the garden hose, it is not worth it.
 
I do this every day at work, when I have to bag for nit-picky “Mrs Tolliver”, who wants exactly three items in each bag, or listen to my even more nit-picky supervisor with the nasally voice that grates on the over-sensitive nerves in my ears. I sometimes think God and St. Philip Neri had a hand in the reason why Will Smith’s “You Saw My Blinker” keeps coming around on my friend’s Internet radio playlist (since it’s a goofy rap song about a guy having the bad day from hell when an old lady rams his new car)
 
Eucharisted said:
This is an oppurtunity which God has given you to rely on His mercy. Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Anxiety is useless.

You can turn your anger into mercy by meditating upon the Passion of Jesus Christ.
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Thank you. That is exactly what I needed to be reminded of.

i think i had already made up my mind that it was all pointless and simply not worth the effort…you know how it is “the darkness before dawn” etc.

But I did set off and ended up having a good day. I have another 2 days of exams and practical tests but I’m feeling positive and confident.
Prayer really is amazing.

God Bless you all and many thanks!
 
Praying for you that your tests all go well and that God will bless your efforts to find employmenet.
 
Noise infuriates me. I don’t know why, mostly I am a very peaceful person, but I really feel angry when there is too much noise. Noise is intrusive, and we live in a really noisy world - cars, people partying, alarms, etc. I can totally sympathize with you!!

I have a noise machine that imitates the sound of wind and a fan in my bedroom. It blocks out most noise, and I can sleep peacefully. Music helps when I’m awake.
 
CHRISTINE77 said:
Noise infuriates me. I don’t know why, mostly I am a very peaceful person, but I really feel angry when there is too much noise. Noise is intrusive, and we live in a really noisy world - cars, people partying, alarms, etc. I can totally sympathize with you!!

I have a noise machine that imitates the sound of wind and a fan in my bedroom. It blocks out most noise, and I can sleep peacefully. Music helps when I’m awake.
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I feel the same way about noise. I want to know more aobut this noise machine, because the fan I run at night is not doing the job. Share hints, PLEASE! My neighbors were extremely loud. When they moved I prayed faithfully that God would send more peaceful neighbors and He sent louder ones!
 
Ame said:
I feel the same way about noise. I want to know more aobut this noise machine, because the fan I run at night is not doing the job. Share hints, PLEASE! My neighbors were extremely loud. When they moved I prayed faithfully that God would send more peaceful neighbors and He sent louder ones!
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It’s call a Marsona TSC-330 White Noise machine. You can get it online. Thre are other white noise machines on the market, but this is one of the best.

I doubt if God sent you those neighbors, more likely Satan is trying to test you. Keep praying to our Father in Heaven.
 
Black_Dog said:
Unfortunately, my neighbours in the upstairs apartment decided to party tonight and the noise has only just stopped. Instead of awaking refreshed and ready, I’m sitting here feeling more like a zombie through lack of sleep. I cant imagine getting through the drive much less the exam.
I am trying very hard not to be angry.
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well I would have called the police about 45 minutes into the party, but then, I have a lot of work to do in the charity dept. I don’t think being a doormat comes under the classification of Christian charity.
 
puzzleannie said:
well I would have called the police about 45 minutes into the party, but then, I have a lot of work to do in the charity dept. I don’t think being a doormat comes under the classification of Christian charity.
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This is the UK and it doesnt work that way here. The police simply refuse to become involved. I know that only too well as this neighbour of mine has made my life a misery for over 2 years. Instead I’m supposed to keep a diary of occurrences, present it to Environmental Health who then inform the culprit that their antisocial behaviour is about to be monitored which of course promptly stops the noise until such time as EH decide there is no case to answer when it all begins again…lol. One big vicious and very noisy circle.

I’ve tried talking to her, being pleasant to her…everything but she is just a totally inconsiderate person. The noise levels are incredible where the room actually vibrates. Ear plugs etc have no effect.

BUT…it has strengthened my resolve to get out of here and I’m pleased to be able to report that I have passed all my exams so just need to put them all to use and earn some money then I shall disappear into the wilds, miles away from any neighbours!!!
 
Congratulations on passing the exams!

We have the…ah…unfortunate cross of living next to a group home of mentally-handicapped people. They were unruly when the place was being privately run, loud music and shouting and what not, 24/7. Then the state took over about a year ago, and things were going quite well. But, as is to be expected, the care lapsed, and a certain gentleman who smokes on the porch between our two houses, and who coughs up a lung the entire time, is back to smoking pretty much round the clock. I’ll go to bed at one or two in the morning and have to fall asleep to his hacking and coughing, then wake up to it a few hours later.

Loud music is one thing, but that coughing is just turn-your-stomach gross @_@ How the heck does someone deal with that?
 
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