for instance, i was trying to click on ‘reply to thread’ on another thread and it wouldnt go, and then suddenly a book from the bookstore here, popped up and it was related to something i’ve been struggling with. now, yes, that seems its either a coincidence or from God, right?
I hear you. My strategy is to not question or assume where they’re from, simply to perceive that they happened. I consider myself both technical and touchy-feely, and what works for me is not to judge them at all. Here’s what I’d take from it:
Fact: a book appeared.
Fact: the topic was one of importance to me.
Beyond that, everything else is just pure guesswork.
Now if you act on it, like by buying a book, then the trick is to evaluate the book purchase on its merits alone. If it is a good thing to do, then do it. For all you know, another shopper could have set it up that way and it just caught your eye.
Now, when things like this happen frequently, it does seem there is something more than just random chance that is guiding it. That is interesting, and it can bolster your faith. But I don’t bother, like I said, worrying about where it is from.
After a while, when you are born of spirit and renewed by the Holy Spirit, things will seem to just “flow” and these questions will not bother you any more.
but in my mind i’ll think, maybe it’s from the devil and he is trying to convince me that catholicism is right, when actually it’s not.
Was the thing you were stumbling with a teaching of the Church? (You don’t have to answer publicly)
WOW hahaha, im quacky lol…its hard to come here an discuss what is right, when i KNOW what you all think is right, do you follow?
I understand being in all different states of mind, so if you are “quacky” I can still pretty much hear you.
Are you saying we are right about things, though? If so I think it’s risky. Ask one question around here and you’ll get 10 totally different answers, at least 5 of which claim to be the only possible POV.
Alan
