Thinking On Either Taking A Break From CAF or Leaving All Together

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Dear One, May the Spirit help you to sort out what is personal opinion from others and what is truth.
Jesus, You are the truth, light and way, please lead your dear One into the simplicity of Your Truth. Bless you, Trishie:hug3:

‘I tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.’” [Matthew 18:1-4]
“Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless You, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased You to do.” [Matthew 11:25-26] This…is what I pray before the Father from whom every family, whether spiritual or natural, takes its name: Out of His infinite glory, may He give you the power through His Spirit for your hidden self to grow strong, so that Christ may live in your hearts through faith, and then, planted in love and built on love, you will with all the saints have strength to grasp the breadth and the length, the height and the depth; until, knowing the love of Christ, which is beyond all knowledge, you are filled with the utter fullness of God.”
“Glory be to Him whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine; glory be to Him from generation to generation in the Church and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen.” [Ephesians 3: 14-21]
 
Dear One,
May you find you don’t have to wear yourself out praying for others. May you feel you can simply ask God in your heart for blessing for others, and then peacefully leave all to God. God free you from this burden of confusion and undeserved guilt.
Can I share extracts of something I wrote so that I could fulfill the urgent desire to pray for every person as the most precious person? God grant you a simple way of such a prayer so that it doesn’t stress you like mine might.

God, in Jesus’ name I offer this prayer concurrently for each person throughout time, for as Christ died for us each concurrently, so through Him may I pray for everyone as if he, or she, were the only one

I commit them totally to You so that Your love becomes the source of all their thoughts and actions.
I know that in Your great love You will accept my prayer on their behalf, in union with Jesus in whom everything attains infinite value, however unworthy the supplicant. Let it obtain pardon for their sins and let it obtain their faith, hope and charity despite materialism or injustice that confronts and embroils them. I pray on behalf of the unbelieving, the discouraged and of all who are ever denied ministry of their faith, so that You may unite their deprivation, misery, even torment of body, to Jesus in His Eucharist. I offer their struggles and achievements, so that, even if unaware, they share in the spiritual life of the Church.

God, through crucified and risen Jesus, I trust You to share to repletion the lowly bread of my prayer that is leavened to infinite abundance by communion in You. Give my prayer again and again through Him who endlessly gives Himself wholly to each person in the Eucharist. Please enflame me (and all Christians) with gospel authenticity that will also ignite others with faith and ministry. Thank You God who acts in us beyond human understanding.
 
Be Not Afraid!

I pray that you will be relieved of your anxiety, that you will be able to look Mystery in the eye and accept the things we are not meant to understand.

Glory be to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end,

Amen.
 
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.
 
Dear God, please help Gigglin4God, to take good care of herself. Jesus has a hidden direction in “love others as you love yourself”, the “as yourself” bit! May her love for herself be as gentle and kind as her love for others.
Take care of yourself dear sister,
Love, Trishie

May you be smiling for God and for the preciousness of who you are to Him. He simply quite simply loves you.
 
I’m praying for you and your intentions!

I pray God will hold you close and your peace will be found in Him!
 
Gigglin4God said:
I am back here now. I just will use my own judgement on how I think things should be done. I wont let anyone shame me for wanting to read a book by Joyce Meyer, Joel Olsteen, or any of them. If it brings me closer to God I am going to do it. I am strong enough in my faith to know that I will never leave the Catholic church for any other religion. Please continue praying for me as I need to have my monthly cycle and I need prayers so that I can start it already as that seems to be the cause of my depression and anxiety attacks. I am going to try my best not to be such a people pleaser because that only gets me hurt in the long run. I will pray for yall too because I know yall need them as well. I love you all and am glad to have stumbled upon such a good forum to belong to. Thank you for being supportive of me. Your sister in Christ. Georgia or Giggles. (((hugs)) God Bless you, Mary Keep you.
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Georgia:

I’m glad to see that you only took a break and didn’t leave the forum permanently. I think it would have been a loss for you and the forum. And, I would have missed you along with everyone else.

As I said a month ago, in spite of some of the really bad advice, you’ll find some pearls of wisdom and some Godly direction. The problem is discerning between the two. That’s why you want to work with a Spiritual Director. Please remember, “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” (Galatians 5:22:23a NIV)

If you’re not able to control your emotions rather than the other way around, if you continue to feel that you hormonal go-around is getting the better of you every month, please contact your Endocrinologist or Gynocologist and see what can be done medically be help bring it under control.

God means for you to be joyful and to have peace - 30 days/month.

*God and Father Almighty, after You created the world, You pronounced it be good, and after You created man in Your own image and likeness and breathed the breath of life into him, You pronounced man to be very good, and, When we fell in the garden, You moved to redeem us by the Incarnation, suffering and death of Your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ.

We beg You, O Lord, to see the suffering of Your daughter, Georgia, whose recurrent depression has caused her such suffering. O Lord, draw Your daughter, Georgia, to the comfort of Your bosom and to heal her of her depression and its cause.

We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, Your Son our Lord, who Lives and Reignes with You and the Holy Spirit, One God, in Glory everlasting.*
Amen.

Your Brother in Christ, Michael
 
Gigglin4God said:
First of all I would like to thank you all for praying for me in my struggle. All of this is just getting to be too much for me and I feel like I am having to come on line here to pray for others so much that it is almost causing me to go nuts. Just too much at a time gets me feeling overwhelmed and extremely anxious.
Thank you all for your prayers, It is just hard right now because I am at a struggle in my life where I feel it is OK to do one thing and when I ask about it from the Catholic point of view, I get made to feel bad for wanting to do things like read a book by non Catholic authors that really have helped my relationship get better and more intimate with God.
I am tired of the struggle inside. Catholicism vs Protestantism. Why does it have to be this way when we are serving the same God? It just gets me how alot of people in life act like they know God and what God wants and how God wants it to be done and really they dont know because they are not God. I am beginning to be more discouraged even when a Nun at church told me that it is ok to read the books that I have and I get on here and some of the people get upset because I just want to know God on a more intimate level in which these books help me to do so.
I am thinking of either leaving the CAF forums for good or just taking a break from it all until I can get the inner peace which is what I need. I dont need to be torn in two any more. And my husband doesnt need to come home from work finding me crying in bed after being in there all day without eating.
I even had someone tell me on here that the Pope told me that I cant watch my shows on TV like CSI, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, and Without a trace. Even the same person told me I couldnt watch wrestling for this very reason. God wants us to have a good life and to be happy and if by doing these things it gets my mind off of my problems just for a short while. I am going to do it. My God understands.
I am sorry if I have hurt anyone on here but I just have to do what is best for me and that is pulling myself away from here so that my depression and anxiety doesnt get as bad as what it has. Thank you for everything. God Bless you all and Mary Keep you. Love always, bye for now Gigglin4God.
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Come join the Crazy Converts/Reverts Club. There’s no struggles or fights there, just laughs, friends, and good times. You don’t even have to post in the thread each day to be a member. Here’s the link: forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=238328
 
For your intentions

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy Kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Amen
 
Gigglin4God, I just posted some stuff on mom4truth’s thread, but it goes for you too and you got a mention, so just copied it to you. 🙂

"One goes to bed or wakes in the night and the different members of the forum community and their needs come to mind, and a feeling of gentle prayerful embrace goes out to them, unseen, perhaps never to meet on earth, but seeming so close and dear. And one sits in church during Mass, Communion, and the hearts of mom4truth and Gigglin4God, and all of you with cute or funny or interesting names, but real problems and issues, all of which sound, feel, somehow familiar. And there’s love. The seemingly trivial, isn’t trivial, because real, and hurting someone, and the big things that make one want to be there with them, with you, and hug and pray, because sometimes there aren’t words that could express the compassion and tenderness one feels towards them, towards you.
Bless you, love, Trishie
 
I’m glad you’re back! Follow your conscience and I think you’ll be fine! God be with you!
 
You are okay? Please God you are. God be with you and protect you from discouragement. May God fill you with joy and peace.
 
Gigglin4God said:
I am back here now. haven’t had time, with allthe stuff that’s gone on in my life, but glad you are back. Did you catch the last CSI? I just will use my own judgement on how I think things should be done. I wont let anyone shame me for wanting to read a book by Joyce Meyer, Joel Olsteen, or any of them. If it brings me closer to God I am going to do it. I am strong enough in my faith to know that I will never leave the Catholic church for any other religion. My aunt had a thing for Joel before she died. Please continue praying for me as I need to have my monthly cycle and I need prayers so that I can start it already as that seems to be the cause of my depression and anxiety attacks. I am going to try my best not to be such a people pleaser because that only gets me hurt in the long run.Darn right! I will pray for yall too because I know yall need them as well.Yes we do. Ineed them right now, as I have no patience waiting on God. I love you all and am glad to have stumbled upon such a good forum to belong to. Thank you for being supportive of me. Your sister in Christ. Georgia or Giggles. (((hugs)) God Bless you, Mary Keep you.
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It is very hard to pick & choose who to pray for & who needs the prayers the most. Join in a group prayer for all of the petitions on Catholic Answers & pray for guidance in your struggles. There are so many requests here I too have felt overwelmed, however praying the rosary for all intentions seemed to help me make choices. God will never abandon you
 
BarbaraTherese said:
May The Lord bring you that inner Peace that you are a seeking and please forgive us if we have brought any pain to you in any way …You are very right in doing whatever you must to decrease depression and anxiety and I will be praying that this relief will be soon.
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Yes, praying this prayer for your peace of mind. May God bless you with His wisdom and security.
 
Thank you again all for the continued prayers. I am still trying and fighting and I wont let things get the best of me. as for any of yall offending me and bringing me pain, Not to worry… it is all erased and gone. Thanks again and please continue your prayers.
 
Praying every day for you that god will give you strength and the power of healing in all areas ofyour life. Hang in there…You are so special and have so much to offer …even when your own life is filled with so much distress. God bless you and give you yet another sleepfilled night…
 
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