What's the most traumatic thing that ever happened to you?

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Most traumatic - (ups and downs)
August 05 - Hurricane Katrina
December 05 - company downsized and i lost my job
Feb 06 - Older son confirms on my birthday by bishop who baptized him as a priest years before
May 06 - younger son has unexplained headaches and nausea
June 06 - younger son diagnosed with brain cancer and goes to St. Jude for 8 months
Nov 06 - wife resigns job to care full time for younger son
Feb 07 - younger son comes home - on my birthday
May 07 - older son graduates from high school this month - receives scholarships
May 07 - younger son going back to St. Jude for checkup this weekend = (we pray for all good results - he is on the prayer intentions page - and thanks in advance)

It’s been one tough crazy roller coaster ride the last 18 months and we are blessed to have a strong:
faith family - parents and siblings have been so wonderful,
faith community - parish priest calling and visiting, and
faith in God for his blessings and compassion.

God bless all those suffering with trauma(s). May peace be yours.
 
contramundum7 said:
Frankly, it never surprises me, the weird things priest do and say… I just shrug my shoulders and remind myself htye are human and that it takes a “special” kind of person to become a priest. :rolleyes:
I don’t know if you knew this, but there are scriptures to “prove” Purgatory - Matt 18:23 ("…until the entire debt is paid"), 1 Cor. 3:13 (“saved, yet as through fire…”) and othrs… It’s really nothing to fear, but it is painful and there are levels of Purgatory… People who wait to repent of terrible things on their death bed go 2 the lowest parts, i’m “told” (read books…). … :eek: Anyway, God is perfectly just and we can trust him to be so - and 2b merciful w/ our loved ones… You are right - we are supposedto do our Purgatory here… Choosing to do good and avoid evil always involves suffering… but if we offer the suffering up to atone 4 past sins and/or 4 the souls in Purgatory, to help atone for theirs, we are well on our way…
Also, you can pray for your father and you definitely SHOULD. I don’t know how long ago he passed away, but we never know how long someone is detained in Purgatory. One saint said that the average time in Purgatory is 40 years!! :eek: That’s an indication of how holy God is, i think…
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I really do believe that we go to Purgatory for a ‘cleansing of our soul’ but i too wonder how long? I have heard that one day in Purgatory is like 40 years here! :eek: I also believe that the more crosses we carry on this earth help us in our purification.

My dad passed away June 2005, i found out September 2005. At Divine Mercy last year, i was told that if i confessed my sins, partook in the Holy Eucharist then that would help have my father released from Purgatory to be with God. (I don’t know when?) I did all that was asked of me, and i trust in Jesus and His Divine Mercy. If this is not true, then i have lost nothing… 🙂

God bless 🙂
 
Tweety said:
I also believe that the more crosses we carry on this earth help us in our purification.
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Very true. I have been through things that have caused me to say to Jesus: “i know how you felt… (on the Cross)”. I sometimes think i have paid for all my sins and yet, God wants me in as high a place in Heaven as possible. I’ve heard there r levels of Heaven… 🤷
The cross i have gone through recently seemmed unbearable, just like the ones that preceded it… yet i have learned volumes… about Jesus, about how to stay close to him, about so many things… some crosses are so bad, they can make us want to lose faith… but then choice enters into the picture, as it always does…
The devil hates me… this is one of the things i learned…
Jesus said that “you will be hated by ALL on account of [Him].” so true :eek: 😦
Anyway, if i didn’t suffer like Jesus did, i wouldn’t understand his sufferings… so i am thankful for them. Anything that leads to intimacy with Jesus is a veyr good thing, painfult though it may be… 🙂
God bless…
 
Angel_Bradford said:
A man commited suicide in front of me by shooting himself in the chest because his divorce was finalized that day.
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That is awful. Did you know him?
It seems like such a selfish thing to do… to others, and yet when a person is in a lot of pain, he/she doesn’t have the capacity to think of what others may feel… 😦
God bless…
 
LSK said:
After reading all these posts I can only marvel at the strength of the human soul. When God made us, He obviously knew what He was doing…you are all incredible. Thank you so much for sharing all you have with us.
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Yeah, God made us in his image and the world, the flesh and the devil try to re-make is in their image… it’s a real challenge to resist that and maintain a dignified image of ourselves… I struggle every day to overcome the messages that others have sent to me that i am “worthless”… Ok, i don’t know for sure if people intend to send that message… but when your own mother sends that message to you, that’s all it takes… you’re on your way to life-long self-dislike…
I spend time with Jesus in the Church and he cures me… but then i leave the Church and, well, i fall again… but @ least now that i’m back in the Church, i know how to get back up again… and i have even learned to forgive myself for falling in the 1st place…
It is so OK to be human. That’s what God made us… 🙂
 
My biological parents were drug addicts and they abused me. One time they left me in my bedroom for more than a day, locked me in. I had to urinate in the corner. The last time I saw my mother, we were playing hide and seek in a convenience store and hour away from my home. I wasn’t to come out until she found me. The clerk found me the next day. That was the most terrifying night of my life. I was 4.
 
1 I was abused sexually, emotionally, mentally and physically as a child
2 My fiance committed suicide
3 I was homeless for a period
4 I was beaten by a partner
5 I miscarried a child
6 I have bad health

I wouldn’t change a thing and I am better for my life and am very content and joyful and thank God for everything. My life is my prayer to Jesus.

My love and heart to all of you who have suffered.

In my Living Prayer of life.🙂
 
thesearch said:
My biological parents were drug addicts and they abused me. One time they left me in my bedroom for more than a day, locked me in. I had to urinate in the corner. The last time I saw my mother, we were playing hide and seek in a convenience store and hour away from my home. I wasn’t to come out until she found me. The clerk found me the next day. That was the most terrifying night of my life. I was 4.
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I can’t express how this Post affected me… I don’t see how anyone can treat a child that way, much less their own… You have a terrible cross to bear… I hope your life has gotten better (can’t imagine how it could not…).

I am wondering if you are Catholic or just what your spiritual journey has been…
Praying for you… God bless…
 
blessedstar said:
1 I was abused sexually, emotionally, mentally and physically as a child
2 My fiance committed suicide
3 I was homeless for a period
4 I was beaten by a partner
5 I miscarried a child
6 I have bad health

I wouldn’t change a thing and I am better for my life and am very content and joyful and thank God for everything. My life is my prayer to Jesus.
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This is amazing… your attitude after going through all that… You are an inspiration. Thank you for sharing…
Every time i think my cross is unbearable, i try to think of stories like yours and others on this Thread…
I also always remember Jesus’ Cross… That thing you say at the end is what i have come to believe… even though it is hard to always practice…
 
thesearch said:
My biological parents were drug addicts and they abused me. One time they left me in my bedroom for more than a day, locked me in. I had to urinate in the corner. The last time I saw my mother, we were playing hide and seek in a convenience store and hour away from my home. I wasn’t to come out until she found me. The clerk found me the next day. That was the most terrifying night of my life. I was 4.
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OH, poor little kid!! :eek:

I hope they found a nice place for you to stay and grow up safe. 😦
 
I have been following this thread over the last week and a half and have wondered if I should post or not. There are a lot sad stories here. And My prayers are with all of you.

Without going into details the most traumatic thing that happen to me was when I was 12 my father committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. He left my mother with 6 children to raise with me the eldest at 12 and the youngest was only three and half months old.

It took me 20 years to understand that I suffered from PTSD over the incident. It took another veteran to open my eyes to that fact before I could start healing. He more or less said, “Dude I came out the Army with PTSD, you went into the Army with it.” From that time on I started looking at all people with compassion and I started to learn how to love, for I now understand we all have pain to overcome and God gives us each other for support.
 
contramundum7 said:
I can’t express how this Post affected me… I don’t see how anyone can treat a child that way, much less their own… You have a terrible cross to bear… I hope your life has gotten better (can’t imagine how it could not…).

I am wondering if you are Catholic or just what your spiritual journey has been…
Praying for you… God bless…
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I just read your post. How terrible and so sad it upset me to read. I can’t even find the words to explain just how bad I feel for you.😦 I will never understand how a mother can treat their childen in such a way.God bless you…:love:
 
I was abused sexually as a child. Had a terrible marriage and have been divorced for almost 30 years. Am often alone, but try not to be lonely. I wish for so much, but am trying to be grateful for what I have.
 
Some of you have experienced such heartbreaking ordeals — I can’t even imagine.

My worst experience was helplessly watching the woman who I thought was the love of my life marry another man. But don’t worry — since then I’ve found the real love of my life, and we’re happily married.
 
I have been through many tragic and traumatic expieriences in my life but the one that is the everyday challenge still to cope with is Katrina. My husband and I live in New orleans and it has just been like living in a night mare for the past two years. We just returned home last May after the evacuation and although it is good to be home life is hard. We are fortunate because our house “survived” complete devistation as well as our family and friends but it has definately been an adventure. It is even difficult to think about all the places and states we moved from …However, It’s good to be back HOME in New Orleans.

MCSB
 
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