Really sorry for what you’ve been thru. I will remember you in prayer.
I’m sure you’ve heard the story of Job’s sufferings in the Old Testament.
Sounds very similar to yours. He was accused unjustly by his friends, and
he lost everything. Yet when this happened, he said, “blessed be the name
of the Lord.” Why?
St. Catherine of Siena in her book, Little Talks With God, reveals what God
told her in these situations. Here are a few short passages of what God said.
“In the case of injuries done to you, judge that my will permits them in order to
prove virtue in you, and in my other servants. Esteem that one who acts in an
injurous manner does so as the instrument of my will. Such apparent sinners
may frequently have good intentions,…you should not judge in your mind, even
though externally it may be open, mortal sin.”
…“Otherwise you fall into contempt of your neighbor, if you judge his evil will
towards you, instead of acknowledging my will acting in him.”
…“because the soul remains always in the love of its neighbor, the soul remains
always in mine, and thus remains united to me.”
This is one of the hardest teachings to understand and even more difficult to accept.
…to love God in everything that comes to us and to see it as a blessing, regardless
of what happens. The soul focuses on God and away from itself.
God strips us, hoping to give us his greatest blesssings thru our cooperation of trust
even in the bad stuff. And that is why Job had a happy ending.
Just a difficult thought to bring a little peace.
“Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
