Battling despair - Help!

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Hi folks,

I am just wondering if anyone else has been overcome at all with sadness regarding the state of our country and the apparent direction it is heading in. It seems like every day I feel profound despair over the barbarity of abortion and gay movement apparently picking up so much momentum and power in our culture. Then you throw in the incessant media attacks on the Church, and well…man, is it just me, or does anyone else have trouble not getting down in this day and age?

Peace and prayers to all.
 
Don’t fear these things. They are all according the Jesus’s prophecy of the end times. Enjoy it while you can; it will get a lot worse. IMO especially when the government starts tracking pretty much every person, pretty much everywhere, there could be quite an upheaval in store. They already have the technology to do that, and they’ve sold the sheeple on allowing them to do it, (can you say, “USA Patriot Act” for example) so it’s just a matter of time and money until that is in place. I figure at least 5 years but no more than 15.

The issue is that our comfort cannot come from the world. Instead of worldly comfort – which pretends to give peace but is by definition conditional (based on giving you good conditions) and temporary. The peace Jesus gives us is eternal and unconditional, and will be with us through the ups and downs. The world hates Christ. This is part of our duty, to shine our light in the darkness. If there were no darkness around us, there would be no need for our light to shine.

John 15:18-19
“If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you."

1 John 4:4-6
You belong to God, children, and you have conquered them, for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. They belong to the world; accordingly, their teaching belongs to the world, and the world listens to them. We belong to God, and anyone who knows God listens to us, while anyone who does not belong to God refuses to hear us. This is how we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

Alan
 
I have a friend that’s dealing with the same problem. Our conversations, when he’s allowed reigns tends to always lean towards what is wrong, to the point he ignores what is right and wrong. Understand that our Lord is very much working in the background at all times.

Personal experience with me today. As I write this post, I reflect upon a song that popped into my head, driving to work, one a few decades ago was pretty popular, and it has spiritual implications. I hear this very song on the “on hold” background music with a place I called up, in Southern California, early on in the morning. Another song, this one I heard on the radio shortly thereafter, after that little early morning, song popped into my head thing, played in the background, coming from a TV one of my relatives at this moment is watching, some movie… Same song as that!!!

Can we say he is fully aware, and fully doing something about it, and it’s done through us, and entirely through us yielding to allow our hearts to be moved and our minds to guided by him… Instead of focusing on the negative beyond this, there are great big, huge feats of chairity extended through out the world, and yes most are CATHOLIC!!! One should rejoice in the fact, we have this great big capacity to Love, Help, and Guide our poor, fellow man. It’s just going to take more then what is, to stand up to the plate, mean business and take care of business in our Lords name!

Any takers!!! It’s pretty simple to do, just have faith, believe, and watch and behold, all we have to do is participate and in the end LIVE!!! Praise be his name, and may his splendor, Love, and being be pronounced proudly, with all of our hearts AMEN!!!
 
Despair is not from God. Do not fall for Satan’s lie, that he is the ruler of this world. So much good is happening in the world too. We just don’t hear about it as frequently partly because the saints do it for Jesus and not to get noticed. The truth of the matter is that whatever Satan throws at us God uses as a tool for our sanctification. The more Satan attacks, the holier we become. A nun once told me, “Even when Satan wins he loses.”

“All things work out for good for those who love God.” That’s what we do as Christians is sanctify everything through our faith in Jesus. Jesus Himself made suffering, rejection, misery, etc holy just by having experienced it. God was telling the truth when He said, NOTHING can separate us from the love of God. All things lead us to holiness. Even if we sin, the humility achieved through our failure improves our disposition toward God and opens us up to an even greater holiness. God often allows us to sin because the fruit of humility is of a greater benefit in the long run.

We ARE all conquerors through Jesus.
 
Please do not despair. When all around us seems to be falling apart, we have HOPE in Christ! That is the Easter message! He will win in the end and He is with us now! The world may be a big mess and thingsmay LOOK as if Satan is winning, but we know who wins in the end. That is our faith. Hope in God alone and do not despair! Think about Christ and God’s love and the final victory over all evil.

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

Phil 4:8-9

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Thank you all SO MUCH for your kind and wonderful advice. I will take all of your words prayerfully into consideration and I will also pray your intentions. May our mighty and merciful Lord bless and keep you all!
 
My humble advice would be turn off tv and talk radio untill you find God’s peace.
Remember Jesus loves you and the gates of Hell WILL NOT prevail against his church.
May God bless you,keep you, and protect you! :blessyou::hug3:
 
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