Feeling Hopeless

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I am feeling hopeless and alone. My marriage is failing, despite counseling. I am a resilient person usually, but I am having a crisis of faith.

I have been through a lot of pain in my life. I was abused as a child, and as a result am estranged from my family. I am a cancer survivor. I have had to be strong my whole life, and have no family to fall back on. This has always grieved me but now with my marriage falling apart, I am in a tailspin of grief.

I am grieving that I will never be loved by anyone. Today I concluded that, well, who am I kidding that things will ever get better? My life has been one disaster, after awful thing, after mistake. The data just points to the fact that I have this dark cloud following me throughout life and there is no hope that I will ever be happy and loved. I have been a fool for my whole life for thinking things will be better and that I will have the life I want. I am losing courage, and faith and hope. I am tired of having to keep pulling myself back up after so many awful things.

Please pray for me. I have children. I have to stay strong but for some reason, this time, I can’t seem to bounce back. Thank you.
 
Dear Lord, please help Ramona to know how much you deeply love her. Help her to know You love her more than anyone ever could and will not abandon her unless she first abandons you. She is going through a dark period of suffering and feels she is losing faith and hope. May she make constant acts of faith and hope and never give into despair. May she repeat to herself the words, “Jesus I trust in you” and “My Mother, my confidence” and know that You and Mary are with her going through all her suffering together with her. Help her to know that if You and Mary weren’t with her she’d be feeling even worse. Please put a holy priest in her life to be her confessor/spiritual director. Help her, Lord, and grant her strength and peace to endure. May she find great strength, healing and peace in receiving you in the sacraments. Thank you, Lord, for hearing my prayer.
 
Dear Lord,

Please give Ramona the strength once again to see her through her trying times. Please continue to make your presence and love know to her and felt by her. Please Lord, give her the continuing knowledge and strength of your love for her and let her know that in you she always has a home and a family that loves her.

Amen
 
Dear RamonaTheBrave,
I was happy to hear that other people were praying for you but wanted to give you my advice. First of all, I’d try to pray the Rosary every day because in this way I feel so close to Mary and I’m sure you will too. You can plan every decade to cover some part of the difficulty in your life.
Second, I’m not sure whether or not you’d be able to do it – but I would suggest trying to go to Mass every day – or if not every day – at least as often as you can – SO - O you would receive Jesus in the Eucharist and He would be with you always. A number of years ago my husband passed away – my children and my grandchildren lived a LONG way away from me, and I saw them very infrequently. I made a one-day retreat with Fr. Ron Rolheiser about the Eucharist and he was so profound and inspiring that I made a promise to myself to receive the Eucharist EVERY day – I feel Jesus is with me always and helps my loneliness, and this is what I tell Him every day.
I will remember you and your difficulties in my Rosary.
 
I’m adding you to my rosary intentions!

I’ve had almost identical struggles to yours–your post could have been mine. 😦

This recent homily gave me strength:
flocknote.com/list.php?feed=23449&note=90951

At least we can offer up our suffering for our children and know it does some good. That’s what keeps me going.

May God bless you with the peace that passes all understanding.
:console:
 
Praying that you will continue to be brave Ramona and that you also feel the love of God
surrounding you.
 
Ramona,
Like I said on my post above, I’ve been in a similar circumstance and we went to counselors, together and separately for 18 years. We were separated when we tried this guy:

stopyourdivorcein4weeks.com/

and he really made a difference for us. His name is Larry Bilotta and we wouldn’t be together if it weren’t for him.

Anyway, I’ll keep praying!

God Bless!
 
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women and
blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners
now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
 
Ramona, I’m so sorry that you are struggling with so many cares as well as feeling alone in the world. It also sounds to me as though you are depressed. Perhaps you could go to your family doctor and tell him how you are feeling. He might be able to perscribe some medication that will take away some of the depression and make your burden lighter. It won’t solve all your problems, but it might make you better able to deal with them more effectively.

I will pray for you and with you so that your troubles cease. Please hang in there and don’t give up.

Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name,
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us,
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
 
Ramona, please believe me when I tell you that I know exactly how you feel. You are not alone.

Do not lose courage - do not lose faith - and above all, have a lot of hope. There’s all the hope in the world. No matter what has happened or is happening in your life, Our Lord has either directly willed it or permitted it for your own good and sanctification.

Unite your sufferings with those of Our Blessed Mother and offer them to the Eternal Father through Her heart for the salvation of souls.

Keep as close to Our Lord and His Blessed Mother as you can. If you feel like you just can’t stand another moment of suffering, tell Them that. If you feel that it is too much for you to bear, tell Them that too.

As someone here already suggested, pray the Rosary each and every day if you are able - if you can’t pray five decades at least try to pray one.

I will remember you in prayer as well! Courage! Confidence!
 
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