Confusion and distress

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After rejoicing last night in a financial matter finally resolved, (I realize even as I type that I neglected to praise the Lord for it, and thanked only my husband), I woke up with strange terror over a matter from last year when I called Children’s Services on a neighboring couple with a small child. I have posted here about it. I am receiving e-mail which I am afraid is directed at me about “child predatory activity in my area.” This touches a nerve, as one consequence of abortion can be animosity toward children. And I WAS, I fear, inappropriately involved in my heart with that small child involved, I was so lonely for my small son who was taken from me by my mother so many times. I woke up with pains in the back of my neck, which has recently been miraculously healed, I forgot whether I had posted here about it so I did post under Ms. Surveyor’s thread THANK YOU St. Jude!.

I am so confused. This healing of my neck is a desperate matter, I had lost all bowel function years ago, long story, and had given up on ever having a normal life again. The pains, the thought of losing this healing terrified me. I asked the Lord what I had done, and He told me He would show me in my soul. There are so many areas of concern and so many reasons to pray to St. Jude, St. Rita, and of course St. Joseph and Mother Mary. Most of all I lack guidance, as I have all my life, and I pray to get to RCIA in September, there’s a great Catholic Church nearby, I have visited once. I pray I am accepted there and that I can finally be baptized and join the Church.

Please pray for me in my confusion and distress and for my good intentions.
 
I will certainly pray for you in your distress and confusion, although I admit I am somewhat confused by your post.
Have you talked with a priest yet? I hope that you will if you haven’t yet.
I hope you will be able to go to RCIA this year too.
God bless you.:signofcross:
 
If there was a real concern that the child involved was endangered, there is no reason to feel such guilt over the matter. You did what was right. Your feelings might have been exaggerated by your personal pain, but of what good is pain if it doesn’t teach? In this case it taught you about the helplessness of a child.

Block those emails! Even if you were totally in error, you do not deserve to be harassed (if they are in fact directed at you), nor do you have to witness the harassment of others. If you can’t outright block them, mark them as spam so that you will not see them in your inbox. DO NOT READ THEM!

Please be mindful of somehow “looking for” trouble. There may be a tendency here to being overly scrupulous. Is it hard for you to be happy? Is it hard for you to accept good things coming to you rather than just bad? Must all bad things be God’s punishment? Remember- the good suffer and the good succeed. The evil suffer and the evil succeed.

Speak to a priest or spiritual counselor about your issues. Trust in God!

I will keep you in my prayers.
 
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After rejoicing last night in a financial matter finally resolved, (I realize even as I type that I neglected to praise the Lord for it, and thanked only my husband), I woke up with strange terror over a matter from last year when I called Children’s Services on a neighboring couple with a small child. I have posted here about it. I am receiving e-mail which I am afraid is directed at me about “child predatory activity in my area.” This touches a nerve, as one consequence of abortion can be animosity toward children. And I WAS, I fear, inappropriately involved in my heart with that small child involved, I was so lonely for my small son who was taken from me by my mother so many times. I woke up with pains in the back of my neck, which has recently been miraculously healed, I forgot whether I had posted here about it so I did post under Ms. Surveyor’s thread THANK YOU St. Jude!.

I am so confused. This healing of my neck is a desperate matter, I had lost all bowel function years ago, long story, and had given up on ever having a normal life again. The pains, the thought of losing this healing terrified me. I asked the Lord what I had done, and He told me He would show me in my soul. There are so many areas of concern and so many reasons to pray to St. Jude, St. Rita, and of course St. Joseph and Mother Mary. Most of all I lack guidance, as I have all my life, and I pray to get to RCIA in September, there’s a great Catholic Church nearby, I have visited once. I pray I am accepted there and that I can finally be baptized and join the Church.

Please pray for me in my confusion and distress and for my good intentions.
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Praying to the Holy Spirit to give you guidance, direction, strength & fortitude in your time of need.
 
Oh glorious apostle St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the name of the traitor who delivered thy beloved Master into the hands of His enemies has caused thee to be forgotten by many, but the Church honors and invokes thee universally as the patron of hopeless cases–of things despaired of. Pray for me who am so miserable; make use, I implore thee, of that particular privilege accorded thee of bringing visible and speedy help where help is almost despaired of. Come to my assistance in this great need, that I may receive the consolations and succor of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations and sufferings, and that I may bless God with thee and all the elect throughout eternity. I promise thee, O blessed St. Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor, and I will never cease to honor thee as my special and powerful patron, and to do all in my power to encourage devotion to thee. Amen.
 
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