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Lady_Love
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How do you live the dream that God has for you when you don’t know what it is? Especially, when you had a dream and God didn’t like that one…actually, I had quite a few and He didn’t like any of them…
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the_phoenix
Guest
Go to your nearest Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel
or your closest tabernacle
and ask Jesus
what He wants you to do.
or your closest tabernacle
and ask Jesus
what He wants you to do.
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MarcoPolo
Guest
It is very difficult to persist through life when we feel that God has denied that which we believe will make us happy. Not knowing is also a frustration, whether the denial was for a certain time, or forever, or something else. What may help you is to try to “focus” on that which you know is God’s will, and pray that other dreams of yours surface clearly, and that God grant you a path that will bring you into the virtue of joy. What you do know is God’s will is to love your neighbor, to care for the downtrodden, to pray “without ceasing,” etc. By faith, we know that this is God’s will.
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Lady_Love
Guest
This statement strikes a chord in me because I was disturbed in spirit and I went to the chapel by myself and lay prostrate before the Blessed Sacrament and begged for JOY. What followed this prayer was the most intense suffering I had ever experienced or even thought humanly possible to suffer, inner afflictions to intense my body could not operate in it’s normal capacity.
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the_phoenix
Guest
On the topic of JOY
Last night, out of the blue, I received a phone call from Father Charles,
a retired missionary priest who is a distant relative.
He has just turned 94 years old.
He praised God that he can still see, hear, and feel.
He commented that he is starting to notice the effects of dementia,
which is not unexpected for people his age …
but now that he is moving more slowly to do things,
he is finding JOY in the moment.
And talking to Father Charles brought me joy.
God bless him.
God bless you.
I will pray for you.
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Last night, out of the blue, I received a phone call from Father Charles,
a retired missionary priest who is a distant relative.
He has just turned 94 years old.
He praised God that he can still see, hear, and feel.
He commented that he is starting to notice the effects of dementia,
which is not unexpected for people his age …
but now that he is moving more slowly to do things,
he is finding JOY in the moment.
And talking to Father Charles brought me joy.
God bless him.
God bless you.
I will pray for you.
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ready
Guest
Just live your life as perfectly as possible; that means doing everything to please Our Lord and to honor and glorify Him and to save souls. God bless you.
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rcwitness
Guest
That’s why I love you:thumbsup:
You open yourself up to Him…even the Apostles constantly had their notions of what the Messiah would bring. It was always overshadowed by what He did bring. His ways are so much greater than ours.
But there is a difference in being a fool for Christ and trying to manipulate His will. Consider then Peter…He was to be led where He did not want to go.
In the end, when I have these sort of dreams (and I do, even now) I am reminded of St James’ wisdom:
“Come now, you who say,“Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit.” yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say,“if the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.”
James 4:13-17
Trust in His goodness, for His goodness
Michael
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