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Trishie
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I gather from your posts that you are very stressed.
Yes life can be very difficult sometimes, for many of us.
And it has been for many who post here.
There have been times for many of us, when our posts haven’t received responses for longer than a half hour, even quite urgent threads…there are many forums and groups in Catholic Answers Forums, and there isn’t a predictable number in any of the groups or sub-forums at any one time…
For myself, yes I know how painfully all these world, family, and personal problems can overwhelm you. If I didn’t I couldn’t have written the following at one time
Faith under siege
Eternal God, when my spirit has burned to ashes, ground to dust with a boulder of mute and heavy sorrow, please give me trust in Your personal love for me.
When mine, or others’ mistakes or uncaring have wounded and savaged my heart, where are You to restore what is injured even when I plead for Your intervention and strive to heal the damage? And yet, though You seem absent, I still humbly cry out for Your mercy and healing.
When my efforts leave me helpless with no path left to try, please comfort me and show me a new path.
When others undermine with repeated assaults and short-circuit my resolve, send wise friends to comfort and support me. For no sooner has one problem and heartache eased or resolved than another, equally painful, arises for another or myself.
I seek You but sometimes am left to feel You are heartlessly steeled against me and my life becomes a flat salt desert. Please help me to trust in You even then, when trust no longer seems possible.
My heart cries out repeatedly, groping in the helplessness of fears, disappointments and grief that words cannot convey; screaming in the silence of my brain. Is my only comfort, some day, death?
Yet still I call on You and place my tatters of faith in You.
Forgive my unbelief
Our God, we humans feel need for practical alleviation in times of grief, difficulty and anxiety. When I am embroiled in grief, clasp me to Your heart.
When I am sad or unwell, when troubles beset my family or friends, when I make mistakes, and when the pain or sin of the world assails me, please lift my spirit with God’s love, and with the kindness of those whom God sends.
If in my sorrow I doubt Your mercy, please accept my heartache and tears as prayer for others. Forgive me if I feel anger or dismay, in my frustrated yearning for real help for loved ones in their genuine needs, difficulty and pain!
Please allow no one to suffer for my doubt, but give me faith to become a better vehicle of intercession and blessing for others. Give me remembrance always that I need not plead desperately for Your mercy but will open my heart to the flood of mercy that awaits my welcome. October 1999
I could go on…but yes, many us us get to the point when we’re screaming in emotional pain over world, family, and personal worries and griefs…I’m that way sometimes…but I hope you also can manage to keep going.
A warm hug from someone across an ocean in a island continent
Yes life can be very difficult sometimes, for many of us.
And it has been for many who post here.
There have been times for many of us, when our posts haven’t received responses for longer than a half hour, even quite urgent threads…there are many forums and groups in Catholic Answers Forums, and there isn’t a predictable number in any of the groups or sub-forums at any one time…
For myself, yes I know how painfully all these world, family, and personal problems can overwhelm you. If I didn’t I couldn’t have written the following at one time
Faith under siege
Eternal God, when my spirit has burned to ashes, ground to dust with a boulder of mute and heavy sorrow, please give me trust in Your personal love for me.
When mine, or others’ mistakes or uncaring have wounded and savaged my heart, where are You to restore what is injured even when I plead for Your intervention and strive to heal the damage? And yet, though You seem absent, I still humbly cry out for Your mercy and healing.
When my efforts leave me helpless with no path left to try, please comfort me and show me a new path.
When others undermine with repeated assaults and short-circuit my resolve, send wise friends to comfort and support me. For no sooner has one problem and heartache eased or resolved than another, equally painful, arises for another or myself.
I seek You but sometimes am left to feel You are heartlessly steeled against me and my life becomes a flat salt desert. Please help me to trust in You even then, when trust no longer seems possible.
My heart cries out repeatedly, groping in the helplessness of fears, disappointments and grief that words cannot convey; screaming in the silence of my brain. Is my only comfort, some day, death?
Yet still I call on You and place my tatters of faith in You.
Forgive my unbelief
Our God, we humans feel need for practical alleviation in times of grief, difficulty and anxiety. When I am embroiled in grief, clasp me to Your heart.
When I am sad or unwell, when troubles beset my family or friends, when I make mistakes, and when the pain or sin of the world assails me, please lift my spirit with God’s love, and with the kindness of those whom God sends.
If in my sorrow I doubt Your mercy, please accept my heartache and tears as prayer for others. Forgive me if I feel anger or dismay, in my frustrated yearning for real help for loved ones in their genuine needs, difficulty and pain!
Please allow no one to suffer for my doubt, but give me faith to become a better vehicle of intercession and blessing for others. Give me remembrance always that I need not plead desperately for Your mercy but will open my heart to the flood of mercy that awaits my welcome. October 1999
I could go on…but yes, many us us get to the point when we’re screaming in emotional pain over world, family, and personal worries and griefs…I’m that way sometimes…but I hope you also can manage to keep going.
A warm hug from someone across an ocean in a island continent
