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i am in terrible pain. i have lost nearly all my close family due to death and separation. Before the word “counselling” rings in your ears please know that its a non-starter for me,

I need spiritual help, and now my priest is leaving. i can’t sleep for more than 2 hours and i am drinking a lot. Before u mention AA i’ve been there done that. I am mentally at death’s door. Why does God keep taking the people i love away from me? My faith is running dry. Am i in some sort of purgatory? very very scared and weak.
 
Please know that I am praying for/with you! :hug1:

Glory be to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
 
Psalms - Chapter 38

1 [Psalm Of David In commemoration] Yahweh, do not correct me in anger, do not discipline me in wrath. 2 For your arrows have pierced deep into me, your hand has pressed down upon me. 3 Your indignation has left no part of me unscathed, my sin has left no health in my bones.

4 My sins stand higher than my head, they weigh on me as an unbearable weight.
5 I have stinking, festering wounds, thanks to my folly.
6 I am twisted and bent double, I spend my days in gloom.
7 My loins burn with fever, no part of me is unscathed.
8 Numbed and utterly crushed I groan in distress of heart.

9 Lord, all my longing is known to you, my sighing no secret from you,

10 my heart is throbbing, my strength has failed, the light has gone out of my eyes.

11 Friends and companions shun my disease, even the dearest of them keep their distance.

12 Those with designs on my life lay snares, those who wish me ill speak of violence and hatch treachery all day long.

13 But I hear nothing, as though I were deaf, as though dumb, saying not a word.

14 I am like the one who, hearing nothing, has no sharp answer to make.

15 For in you, Yahweh, I put my hope, you, Lord my God, will give answer.

16 I said, ‘Never let them gloat over me, do not let them take advantage of me if my foot slips.’

17 There is no escape for me from falling, no relief from my misery.

18 But I make no secret of my guilt, I am anxious at the thought of my sin.

19 There is no numbering those who oppose me without cause, no counting those who hate me unprovoked,

20 repaying me evil for good, slandering me for trying to do them good.

21 Yahweh, do not desert me, my God, do not stand aloof from me.
22 Come quickly to my help, Lord, my Saviour!

From the depths of despair praise him, He is with you through it all.

peace
 
Thanks grasscutter and hascombat its important for me 2 know there are people out there who care.

I feel so desolate and don’t know who i’m going to lose next. but there arent many people left now anyway.
 
=bethanysamuel;8008593]i am in terrible pain. i have lost nearly all my close family due to death and separation. Before the word “counselling” rings in your ears please know that its a non-starter for me,
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I need spiritual help, and now my priest is leaving. i can’t sleep for more than 2 hours and i am drinking a lot. Before u mention AA i’ve been there done that. I am mentally at death’s door. Why does God keep taking the people i love away from me? My faith is running dry. Am i in some sort of purgatory? very very scared and weak.
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My dear friend in Christ;

You have sfficient Faith to understand well you’re situation. PERHAPS that IS God’s choice for you. Purgatory now rather tha later; WHEN IT WILL BE WORSE? Of perhpas because God LOVES you; he is giving you san opportunity to assist someone else in need. :o

Take Up your Cross and Follow Me

**Phil.2: 8 **“And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross **Luke.9 :23 And he said to all, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. Mark.8: 34 And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. Luke.9: 23 **And he said to all, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. **Luke.14: 7 **Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple.”

This message is REPEATED 5 TIMES! The same nimer as the Teaching on the Eucharist! That my friend tells us how important God sees it.

1Pet.4: 13 ” But rejoice in so far as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

1Pet.5: 1, 9 “So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ as well as a partaker in the glory that is to be revealed. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experience of suffering is required of your brotherhood throughout the world.”

**2Tim.4: 5 **“As for you, always be steady, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.”

Phil.1: 29 “For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake, “

**2Thes.1: 5 **“This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be made worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering “

**Heb. 2: 10 **For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through suffering.

EVERY GRACE ACCEPTED as God’s Will for Me, get’s us that much closer to heaven!

I’ll pray for everyday!

May God stregthen you in you’re trials!

God Bless you,
Pat
 
My heart yearns to bring you comfort so I will most definately pray for you. It must be difficult the path you’ve been asked to walk. Are there not any friends of faith nearby to help you along the way? You mentioned your priest leaving…is another coming? I sounds like it would help to have a spiritual counselor which could be a priest but since diocean priests are so often busy they could possibly refer you to such a spiritual counselor.

Another suggestion is to sit before the Blessed Sacrament as often as you can. You can’t believe the healing and comfort while there. If it doesn’t occur at first just stay…and cry and pour your heart out to Jesus…it can be beautiful.

There is no doubt an attack on your thoughts. Please find wonderful uplifting, encouraging verses in your bible (Psalms are good) and write them down. Tape them up around your house and read them aloud or keep them in a pile and when down read them aloud and with faith say “Jesus I trust in You”.

You are not alone. My prayers,
mlz
 
PRAYER FOR ALL WHO CARRY THEIR CROSS

O my God, I thank you for this cross you have allowed me to carry. Please give me the strength and faith to persevere so that I may bring glory to your name while withstanding the burden of its weight. Thank you for offering me a share in your suffering. I know that you have always been, are now, and every will be, at my side every step of the way. Thank you also for every “Simon” that you have sent to help me bear this cross. I have prayed so often that this thorn in my flesh would be removed, but I trust that your grace is sufficient. Change my heart’s troubled cry of --“How long, O Lord”, into words of trust: “However long, O Lord”. May I seek only to do your will and to unite my sufferings with your passion. Help me to not get lost in my own self concerns, but may I find in these trials a way to greater virtue, a call to prayer and a path to trust in you alone. Permit me not to waste my pain, but to make of these struggles a sacrificial offering for others. Lord, when I am weary and I fall, exhausted under the weight of this cross, please give me the courage to press on as you did. Lord Jesus, I embrace with love my cross, as a share in your own. By your grace, may I carry it all the way to the vision of your glory. I abandon myself totally to your will. Christ Jesus, I trust in you. Amen
 
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I surrender
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bethanysamuel, that may be the message for you in this.

I went through a similar time as you are describing, and I know the depths of its pain. I learned that God wasn’t “taking people away from me” to harm me … it really wasn’t about me in that sense; it was simply the natural cycle of life.

But God DID want me to learn some things. There is only One who will never leave you … that is God.

I believe we are to love and to care for others as well as we can, and losing them in this life is painful; God knows that (Sirach 18).

But at the end of the day, if I can’t say that I love God more than anyone or anything else in the entire world, then my priorities are not right and I need to turn to Him and ask for His help. The One we must look to, the One we must find our identity and being within, is God.

Surrender to Him. Look to Him. Find comfort within Him. I will be praying for you; I know that you will find joy again.

God is all.
 
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