Struggling with life

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I don’t know entirely why I’m posting besides I need prayer please pray for the conversion of my soul.
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That’s it. You are reaching out because you realise that if you only believe in what you can see (the secular world) you will be swallowed up by it. Maybe you realise that secularism and atheism (sorry I got in trouble for using too many words ending in “ism” recently) are dry. cold barren places with little or no meaning.
You’ve come to the right place. In choosing Christianity and Catholicism I mean. One of my favourite quotes from the Bible is “if you truly seek Him, you shall find Him”. If you sincerely seek God, you will find Him. Most of us only try half-heartedly and wonder why we get half-hearted results.
 
That’s deep. Lately I’ve been trying to look at women from a perspective of love rather than lust, even women I used to fantasize about, hope that helps me accomplish Jesus’ advice to love my neighbor and become truly Christian
 
Perhaps look at the lives of the saints like the recent St Padre Pio.

Or look into the approved apparitions like Lourdes and Fatima.

Lastly, think about a couple facts:
Existence
Ordered existence
the fact that you are an agent capable or rational analysis and deep creativity
 
Struggling1 said:
Hello everyone. I am a 27 year old raised Catholic turned to atheism/agnosticism honestly not a whole lot of belief in anything. I have been in a close to two week panic attack trying to figure out what I believe. I struggle so heavily with skepticism yet all I want is to believe. I am trying baby steps to see what I find I attended adoration and have said the rosary a few days in a row now simply begging for god to prove or reveal his existence again to me. I know we need to believe in faith but I am so struggling in this area. People are so materialistic and skeptical these days and it has led to the destruction of my beliefs. I don’t know entirely why I’m posting besides I need prayer please pray for the conversion of my soul.
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Prayers ascending for your desire to receive faith.
 
read about the saints,

padre pio, st bernadette, jacinta & fransisco and how they gave their lives to God - totally inspirtational
 
Struggling1 said:
I have no idea that’s why it haunts me I want to believe but I am quick to discredit anything that points to god.
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That is pretty simple. That is Satan’s main job. Have you ever read the Screwtape letters?
Struggling1 said:
I don’t know if it’s fear or hatred or what emotion haunts me.
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Well, it could be a combination of things, but definitely the devil will do whatever He can to keep you away from your heavenly inheritance.
Struggling1 said:
I’m just so stuck in needing proof and it’s not something I’ll find so I am struggling.
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Don’t be so sure! God wants everyone to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the Truth, so He is willing to pursue you until death to win your heart.
Struggling1 said:
I feel quite amazed at how many people are responding and it feels good to know I’m not Alone I hope to one day find Christ.
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CAF exists for people like you, Struggling1.
Struggling1 said:
I guess I don’t even know what I’d be looking for. A sign of how silly my mind is skeptically.
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It is an important question to consider, and I do not think “silly”. God created us to NEED evidence of Him, and to be in relationship with Him. He is willing and able to reveal Himself so that we can be united with Him.
Struggling1 said:
I also will stop by the cathedral of jp2. I heard his intercession has helped many skeptics.
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Certainly a stop by is great, but don’t wait for then! Dear Saint John Paul the second. Please help this lost lamb Struggling1 to encounter Jesus as you encountered Him, and find everlasting life as you have.
Struggling1 said:
Without a gods existence all life is meaningless.
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I don’t know if I would go so far as to say that, but for those of us who respond to the call to faith, it is true. There are existential questions in life that need to be answered, especially 1) Who Am I? and 2) Why am I here (walking on the face of the earth?) The answers to these questions pertaining to existence are what give human beings the sense of purpose and meaning in life. We are created by God to have the need for meaning and purpose. It is part of how He gets us to seek Him.
Struggling1 said:
I will keep posting here throughout my journey it’s just so hard! I need better resolve.
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Don’t say that! It is like praying that God will give you patience! If a person pays for patience, a person will be provided with situations to try their patience.

If a person thinks they need better “resolve” they might end up with more anxiety! That will drive anyone to solution with great resolve.
 
Struggling1 said:
I just want so badly for him to exist even though everyone so greatly tried to disapprove his existence. It’s so hard when all I have learned is scientific methods to approaching issues and the metaphysical requires more. Thank you for the words of encouragement I’m going mad debating this with myself and it helps.
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One of the first things I learned in college is that not all science is treated equally. There is bad science and science can be manipulated for agendas, just like the secular humanists claim against religion.

The fact that there have been so many to try and prove He doesn’t exist, yet you still seek him, should at least on a very personal level add some weight to the belief that maybe he does exist. Science seeks to explain everything away as physical processes due to random chance. But where do ideas such as goodness, charity, selflessness, unconditional love and the manifestation of these ideas come from if one only seeks to explain away everything to random chance? The alternative to there being no God is that everything just “happened” to be this way by random coincidences stacking one on another over a vast amount of time.

I was a cynical nihilistic atheist for a very long time, through my late teens on to just a couple of years ago and I am about to be 30. It is no way to live. God called me home and I think He is doing the same to you. Please pray every day and you will find the answers you are looking for, I can promise you that.
 
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Then what I will pray for is for god to show his existence to me and for my faith to increase and my hardened heart towards him to soften. Thank you for the response and time spent to break down my post I really appreciate it!
 
It’s hard too I know so many atheists/agnostics that are so convinced they are right and they make it hard!
 
I’ll say a prayer for everyone who commented for graces for you for helping me. I’m not sure if since I likely have been in mortal sin since I stopped practicing if god will even hear my prayers.
 
Not sensing peace is a sign that you’re not as close to the Source of all peace as you need to be.

God can use such things to help us to wake up, to come to our senses.

Take your nice paragraph…and “turn it into” a prayer, a conversation with God.

"Hello God. I am now 27 year old… I have nothing left of what You gave me at my Baptism. I haven’t asked for faith in a long time. I’d like now to ask for a big dose of faith and some hope, and next week I will ask for a double dose of love, so I can help those who need a lot of help and love. I don’t want to be focused on myself so much, but right now I am very focused on nothing but myself. Help me more. Help me to know that You see me, that You hear me. Help me to keep taking baby steps, just today, just this hour, give me a tiny bit of your divine serenity. I have none. But I am attracted to the idea of serenity. You must be serenity itself. Give me more faith, give me a tiny bit of peace, help me to listen in between the lines for Your fatherly voice. I want to get nearer to you. I don’t want “things” to add distance between us, but I want to learn how to make things “close the distance” between us. I want unity, and I want to rid myself of anything that distances me from You.

Help Your child, rush to my side. Don’t delay. Show me Your goodness "

Realize we don’t generate our own faith, our own hope, or our own love: We have to ask God for these virtues. Beg Him, like a beggar.
 
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I’m crying at how close this touches thank you I will. Thank you so much. It’s such a troublesome time and this brings solace.
 
Pray the rosary. Turn to Our Lady. Ask Her to lead you to Her son. Consecrate yourself to Her.

“Oh Mary Queen of the world, Mother of goodness, we commit our souls to thee.

Accompany us each day to the source of joy, give us the saviour.

We dedicate ourselves to thee, Queen of love. amen “

Our Lady Herself dictated these words. Please pray them.

Also pray the Memorare. Pray it x10 as an emergency novena as recommended by St Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Pray it for faith.

Ask St Pio to intercede to the Lord for you to have an increase of faith. These will work have no doubt.

God hears the silent prayers of your heart already and these answers you are receiving are His answer. You are very blessed. As I type I can feel the immense blessing of the Lord coming upon you. Praise to Jesus and Mary forever.
 
We all struggle in life from time to time. But remember, God doesn’t give us anything that he & us can’t handle together. Keep the Faith. God bless.
 
I will do this. Thank you all for your continued prayer and support in this most trying of times.
 
Don’t stress struggling 1. You will get there. You will see. Be at peace. As the saying goes “ be still and know that I am God”. Keep persevering. Remember the Lord said that he who seeks, finds. He who knocks, finds the door opened unto him. Relax. The Lord knows the deepest desires of your heart. He will answer you. Probably when you least expect it.
 
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