I can understand what you said perfectly.i tell myself that… but sometimes my head and my heart have big arguments…
yes, but that is part of being in a relationship. it is very important that you realize his majesty though. yelling at God doesn’t help, but it does stink that He has omnipotence and stills holds back- we just have to work through anger and frustration and submit ourselves to the Providence, Wisdom and Will of God. telling God what to do is always a bad idea.i have, many times… though sometimes i have to admit that, when i thought about it, it wasn’t really God i was angry with… although maybe i kinda was because, after all, He has the power to control things…
tha’ts not to say he is going to, though…
I don’t usually stay angry with God (but maybe i shouldn’t say that because now the devil is going to say… “Hmmm…we’ll see about that!”
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So… have you ever been angry at God & not tried very hard to get over it??
i could say the same hting…
i probably should talk to Mary more about the problems in my family… I pray the St. Jude prayer sometimes but probably need to do that more also… they do so much “damage” to my mind and heart that right now, i find it difficult to even think about them… which sometimes leads to me not wanting to pray for them… but i try to resist that temptation… (to avoid pain)… There was something in today’s Mass readings about… how because we accept suffering, we are… with God… or something like that… I can get the exact words later… but anyway, it hit home…
yeah because it doesn’t work…
i think anger is very positive… it is a sign that something is not right. When you get angry @ someone, it can mean (among other things) that either something is wrong with that person’s behavior or you are expecting something you shouldn’t expect from him/her… or both…
but i learned a lot from reading it… (What was really interesting was the ways in which i have NOT changed much…which can be good or bad… depending on perspective…). But it is ALWAYS good to know yourself… The saints say that is very important… (definitely contributes to making one humble… ) Yes…my parents’ deaths as a kid, made me very angry later in my adult life. I didn’t grieve for a looooong time…as a kid, you just sort of ‘go on with life,’ and you don’t even know how to grieve at 10yrs old. I often have been angry with God in the past, but that was largely because I didn’t grieve. Once I went through the grief process, I realized that one of the steps, if you will, is anger. Anger at yourself, your circumstance, and God, even. It is not terrible to question God, or even be angry–I think that it’s wrong to walk away from God, and thankfully, I was never tempted to do that. I just wanted Him to help me, even though I thought He could have controlled my parents not dying when they did.i have, many times… though sometimes i have to admit that, when i thought about it, it wasn’t really God i was angry with… although maybe i kinda was because, after all, He has the power to control things…
tha’ts not to say he is going to, though…
I don’t usually stay angry with God (but maybe i shouldn’t say that because now the devil is going to say… “Hmmm…
So… have you ever been angry at God & not tried very hard to get over it??
It sounds like you have made the best of the pain… I have tried to do that also, although something happened years ago, very similar to what you went through, that made so angry @ God… i asked Him, “why should i serve You? You aren’t helping me?}” or somehting like that… and like you say, now i see where the whole situation helped me in ways… well, it is hard to say in words…
that made me laugh… even though i know you weren’t trying to be funny…
:hypno: or so it seems… I was praying the Sorrowful mysteries of the rosary the other day (Do you do that??) & all of the sudden this weird thing happened that had never happened before… I thoght of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsamane… with the Cross ahead of him and all that… and i just suddenly could NOT fathom it . Yes, i have had problmes fathoming it before… Every time i pray the sorr. myst. But this time… i got to thinking: “God, how could you allow this??”. Yes, i have “been there” before also… but this time… i couldn’t seem 2 get beyond it… I just had to ask myself: Do you believe it happned or don’t you?" and… in faith, i said (a weak) Yes… I then made myself remember the Real Presence of Christ in the Church… Any time i have doubts, thinking of the Real Presence takes them away like nothing else… (Do you spend time with Jesus at the Blessed Sacrament?)well, maybe it is all a matter of semantics or rhetoric… but i do tend to feel that anger at God is “justified”…. Hence I don’t think being angry at The Lord is justified…though entirely understandable
*Yes, I have wanted to literally bang my head.
well, maybe it is all a matter of semantics or rhetoric… but i do tend to feel that anger at God is “justified”…
any relationship where one party has all the power (and knowledge, etc.) and the other has none or little… is going to have problems…
Jesus said you would be “hated by all”… Frankly, i believe that God is (often) included in that “all”…
Maybe it is true that God never actaully hates anyone, literally… but he DOES hate our sins… and sometimes, well, we all know how hard it can be to separate the sin from the sinner… and since we are created in his image… well, you get my drift… Maybe he is the same way… somewhat… (a big SOMEWHAT)…
So, God doesn’t hate anyone… but if you FEEL that he hates you, well, He does… The Bible says “As a man thinketh, so is he.”
I really believe that God… wants us to go through certain things… He has his reasons. I think i know a few of them… but i will refrain from saying… right now…
Anyway… Everything happens for a reason…
sometimes I just feel that God plays favoritism and that he gives certain people more graces than others. No matter how much you trust and believe. Just like an artist will love a certain song over another that he wrote or a painting that an artist painted versus another. Lately that is how I think God looks at us. I may be wrong , but all I know is what I am dealing with and I see that some people have more help graces, easier or I should say more joyious way to go than others.I see some people living their dream at an early age (hence more time to enjoy it) while others only long for anything close to living their dream or desires. who knows maybe tomorrow I will wake up and averything will change and I will get to have what I see others are enjoying. I am not very happy with him right now but it will work out I am sure. I surely beleive in God to where I KNOW he exists and I am tryign to trust in him. But tick tock time is flying by and I see more grey in my hair so God isn’t stopping the clock as far as age is concerned but who knows. Though I do thank him very much for all he has done for me. Just frustrated right now There are other people though that have a lot more to be angry about than I for sure. God Bless scoob.
I’ll have to agree to differ on some of your points, Distracted…but with the above:thumbsup:
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there is some scripture about how God chastises… and that we hate the chastisement while it is happening… but… well, i cna’t recall the passage word for word… Maybe you know it??
uch: :banghead:did you see that oprah show on the homeless guy who was given 100,000… & how he basically spent it foolishly… & ended up homeless again… said something to the effect that he was kinda meant to be homeless…Furthermore, a beggar may be happier than a millionaire- it depends on how they see life.