God dissapoints me

[Aussieman88]

There’s power in the words you speak. You talk about negativity for your future then that’s what you will get. Seek and you shall find. Find some charismatic catholics or go back to that church where they were speaking in tongues. They are the ones moving with the power of the Holy Spirit. Have them pray for you. The bible says the prayers of a righteous man are powerfull. I think only the righteous have the Holy Spirit in such a quantity that there’s an abundance to flow out to others. It actually happens John 7;38. Go get some Holy Spirit from these people. Your life will improve out of sight.

 

[JamesCaruso]

**Perhaps God doesn’t want you to change the whole world. Instead, change the whole world for one person.

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.”
–Edmund Burke

“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”
–Marian Wright Edelman

“Find a need and fill it.”
–Ruth Stafford Peale

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
–Mother Teresa**

Thank you for those pearls of wisdom!

Today we celebrated St. Benedict. He was a simple man who was bothered by all the materialism and immorality of his time, similar to today. He went off and lived a simple life away from the world. Yet his impact on the Catholic Church has been immense. We have the Benedictine Order and development of monasticism which is built largely on his “Rule.”

The OP reminds me of today’s reading on Joseph and his brothers and how in the end Joseph saw his being sold into slavery by his jealous brothers as the hand of God sending him ahead so as to be able to save lives. Wow! Sold into slavery and he saw it as the hand of God! How many of us could be so magnanimous?

We may not be able to see the wisdom of God in what happens daily in our modern world, but some day, like Joseph, we will. Being other Christs, we are sent into the world for a reason, and it’s up to us to find our purpose and mission.

Maybe we can’t leave the world like Benedict, but we can have our own “retreat” from the world by daily Mass, rosary, and frequent prayer, and in so keeping our minds on spiritual things, we can live holy lives discerning God’s will and purpose for our lives. This was close to the homily given at this morning’s Mass.