We shouldn't pray for feelings. We should pray because it pleases God

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Amen
You said everything I like to hear. We must pray to God (but also, suffer for God, make sacrifices for God) because God MERIT that we do it for him.
The avalanche of negative reactions to your message does not surprise me much. Indeed, we love talking about love too much, but in reality we are for the most part in a relationship of profit, and not in a relationship of charity towards God. In a relationship of charity we are happy when we give, in a relationship of profit we are happy when we receive. So we go to God to receive consolation in order to be happy. In a relationship of Charity we give to God our arid prayers, our sacrifices because he deserves to receive that from us and we are happy because we have given to God what he deserves to receive from us.
When we are really in charity we are always in Joy, even if our sensibility, our passions can be in sadness, the top of our soul is always in Joy, and we never complain even if we can scream of pain or crying, because inside we are always in joy.
And let’s imagine a scenario where all of a sudden, all our loved ones die, we lose our job, we become extremely poor, we lose health, all of us friends run away. How could all this delay or prevent our salvation? if something does not hinder our salvation, why should we be sad?
it is true that, as human, all that will be painful, we will even cry, but these pains should it caused in us the sadness if our salvation is not compromised?
 
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A precision however. To turn to God to seek sensible consolations or spiritual consolations is not bad, but in doing so we do not do what is perfect, for God deserves that even our spiritual consolation is sacrificed to Him
 
Thank you. I love that term…relationship for profit. Marvelous.
 
I wish you’d ask just one question - and go from there -

You always ask a question -
Then follow up with another -
Then another
You sound like a real bad lawyer - answering his own questions.
 
Sorry. My way is to sort of mentally beat around a topic by asking a series of questions to myself in order to shake off parts of an issue/topic and then to examine them separate then together again. For me, asking questions like this is how to get to the essence of things, but I’ll do better.
 
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Grant him rest, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon him.

And to his survivors, especially his widow, grant comfort.

And to us sinners also, mercifully grant entrance into your heavenly kingdom.

(To the OP: this or something similar, is what you should have said after reading her posts, not continue to lecture. And for the record, I don’t agree with everything she says on CAF, but I know there is a time and place for everything. I am sorry, but even if I consider much of your writing spiritually profitable, it also starts sounding colder the more of it I read.)
 
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