Praying on the 2nd reading today

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Been really down last night and today. This reading was like a bell ringing in my worried and depressed mind today. I thought of you all here today and wept as these words struck home. God Bless us all to hold fast through the discipline and pain and “make straight paths”!

Hebrews 12:5-7;11-13

**Brothers and sisters,
You have forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as children:
My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord
or lose heart when reproved by him;
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines;
he scourges every son he acknowledges.
Endure your trials as “discipline”;
God treats you as sons.
For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline?
At the time,
all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain,
yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness
to those who are trained by it.

So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees.
Make straight paths for your feet,
that what is lame may not be disjointed but healed.**
 
Thank you for sharing our story 🙂 God Bless you, I will keep you in my prayers :gopray:
 
Thank you for the passage you quoted.
It is so easy to consider chastisement
as punishment, instead of discipline for
our own good.
 
Since I posted that, I’ve had an unbelievably bad day and night. I haven’t slept and can’t seem to stop crying. What is going on?! O my Jesus have mercy on me and all who are going through mental and spritual torment! Please pray for me I’m in pain! God help me through this!
 
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