Ez streak wrote on 01 Apr 2012 09:17:
I think I might join after pesach I am debating it.
I ask you partly in jest- who are you debating it with? Your yetzer hara or yetzer tov?
I am very happy you are doing so well.
I do not mean to scare you ch'v, I would like to share what I have seen here. I have been here since the days when there was very little funding and the members would do the programing for the site. It was not high tech. I feel blessed to have been here so long. But having been around I have seen differnat patterns.
Some poeple come, join, break free and keep rising. There is even a global moderater who is one such fellow.
Other come have a great start and then get a big test from the Y"H and fall. At that moment they are faced with an even bigger test- do they get back up and
continue climbing (not starting over- continuing)or do the give up.
For many the first peroid of time here is amamzing, but then the big test comes.
I want you to be aware that this might happen.
The other thing I want to share is that from the little I know the best way to avoid being tested or to really break free of a big fall is to really embrace the ideas shared here on the site. One very good way to do that is with the phone calls. I am not trying to push you or scare you off. I only want that if you find yourself slipping you sould know it is not only normal but also it is a bigger test than the test of lust and that there are ways to win.