Do you find it hard to experience God's love?

[fin]

Hi, I have read this book and I think it might aid you in experiencing God’s love. The examples are from real people and the advice given are based on sound Catholic teachings.

amazon.com/Fully-Alive-Janice-Brown-Carbon-ebook/dp/B013FJE8XM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460083056&sr=8-1&keywords=janice+carbon

I’m currently reading this book, Discover Your Next Mission from God. So far I’m really enjoying and learning a lot from it. The author provides examples from holy people. Some are popular saints, some are people I have heard about for the first time. It gave me some perspective, and I hope it does for you.

sophiainstitute.com/products/item/discover-your-next-mission-from-god

 

[Lea101]

I find it hard too. But I have experienced it once or twice in my life. I feel like he isn’t thaat personal. I mean I am aware that he loves us, but I feel like people exaggerate it and act like he is madly in love with us and care about every single thing that we do. I feel like he just oversees things, like how a father would, but it’s not like the father is sooo involved with the child’s life. (Or at least that is what my father does )
I am aware that we are both probably wrong, but just to answer your question, yes. I do feel like it is hard to experience his love. Especially when this world is so messed up.

 

[detoutcoeur]

Yup, too old and too slow. I tried really really hard but I just got fired.

Guess I’ll have to prepare to surrender my beautiful wonderful cat to the local humane society and get my affairs in order. She’s the only thing I have to live for but I can’t take her into a state homelessness.

I will try to get another job but I already know I’m not going to make it before financial disaster strikes. I’m really old, tired, stupid, and I’m terribly depressed and anxious.

As always, everything just gets worse and worse, forever and ever, amen.

Please pray for me.

Praying…
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*O most beautiful Flower of Mount Carmel, Fruitful Vine, Splendor of Heaven, who brought forth the Son of God still remaining a Virgin, assist us in this necessity. O Star of the Sea, help us, and show us that you are our Mother.

O Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth, we humbly ask you from the depths of our heart to help us in this necessity. There are none who can withstand your power. O show us that you are our Mother.

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. Sweet Mother, we place this cause in your hands. Amen*.

 

[Sarcelle]

Yup, too old and too slow. I tried really really hard but I just got fired.

Guess I’ll have to prepare to surrender my beautiful wonderful cat to the local humane society and get my affairs in order. She’s the only thing I have to live for but I can’t take her into a state homelessness.

I will try to get another job but I already know I’m not going to make it before financial disaster strikes. I’m really old, tired, stupid, and I’m terribly depressed and anxious.

As always, everything just gets worse and worse, forever and ever, amen.

Please pray for me.

Praying for you and your cat. I would hate to see you separated from her.

 

[multitude]

Actually, not really. I don’t find it hard to experience His love, it’s actually the opposite. If anything, devotion to Our Lady tends to intensify it, and I start getting this sense that He is actually an extremely personal being. He really doesn’t like being hurt, but He is willing to take it, for us. And it does make me feel guilty, that I can never return that kind of love back.

Hmm, but perhaps that may change soon enough.

 

[Mary_Ellen]

My life. I’m old, sick, depressed, don’t make enough to pay my rent or my debt, and will probably be out on the street before much longer. I wish I had never existed.

Looking back over my life, there is a logical progression, and spending eternity in hell is the logical culmination of that progression.

I’m old (or older than I used to be, anyway, and yet younger than some others)
I’m depressed - clinically diagnosed with major depression
I hardly make enough for rent and to pay my debts but I’m probably not going to be on the street anytime soon
I often wish I’d never existed.

Yes, things were better when I was younger and working but now that I’m disabled I, too, see a progression towards the negative. But look at Christ: he entered Jerusalem in triumph and a week later he was crucified. The leaders of his own people had been seeking a way to kill him for years. Talk about negative progression. That’s certainly how the apostles saw it and most of them abandoned him at the “end.” But death was not the end of Jesus’ story and Hell is not a certainty for those who continue to experience bad things in their own lives.

I’m thinking you may want to concentrate on the suffering of Christ and the eventual triumph of the Cross. Jesus was lifted up on an instrument of torture. The Cross is the way which has become for us a path towards eventual resurrection, another kind of being lifted up.

Christ did not promise us a life of smooth sailing. Instead He asks us to pick up our crosses daily and follow Him.

You might also want to examine the Beatitudes where Jesus tells us ‘blessed are the poor in spirit’ for the kingdom of God is theirs. He definitely does not teach us that the poor, the down-trodden, the lonely or the depressed are damned. Instead, these individuals hold a special place in the heart of God.

I am sorry things look so bad for you right now and you will be in my prayers.