Why does it SEEM

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**Have you considered that God doesn’t want you in this line of work? **

I’ve wondered about that.
But after 2-1/2 hellish years of unemployment and NO ANSWERS OR REPLIES
to my submitted very professional office worker resume, I took this job.
I was maniacal with terror after 2-1/2 years of unemployment, 51 years old,
and all - ALL - my money was gone.
I thanked GOD for this job, still do.

Believe me, if I could get a job paying me what, frankly with my experience,
I am worth, or anything remotely near it, I would take it in a heartbeat.
In the meantime, quitting is not an option. I am very poor right now, and
quitting would probably drive me to suicide, as would losing the job by firing
for not making my points.
As I said in a related post, I don’t understand, if God cares for me and forgives my sins,
why he doesn’t seem to be consistently helping me succeed on this job?
Most of my co-workers are unbelievers. They don’t pray for God’s help to have a good day. I DO. Yet they make their goals and exceed them (and I used to, this just started happening a couple of weeks ago). One woman I work with is so downright bullying, overbearing, hostile and malicious that one would think that God would discipline HER by making her fall short of her goal, but nope, she makes sometimes 600% of goal, and never less than nearly 300% of it ((largely by stealing customers WE have already been working with OR by saying merely “hello” to a customer as she comes in the door, and then claims that customer and his/her purchases as “her sale” even though she doesn’t help the customer for an hour or more while they shop for their stuff alone. She once went screaming to the boss because she had greeted a customer when he came in, then left him alone, so one of my co-workers served him and sold him a $1000 espresso machine. She was so livid that she went screaming to our department manager and he took HER side, and gave the $1000 sale to HER, helping her STEAL IT from the co-worker who actually did ALL the leg work. He takes HER SIDE because she gets customers to open lots of store credit card applications, which makes him look good)).
I don’t begrudge ANYBODY a good sales day and want EVERYONE of my co-workers to exceed their sales goals and make a nice check. But I need to make one, too, and I’m busting my tail, serving customers for hours, answering all their questions, etc., only to have them buy a spatula or a can opener, or decide to go to another store because our “coupons” exclude electrical items, etc. I am doing what I am SUPPOSED to be doing. Perhaps the LORD will be kind and answer my prayers for good sales tomorrow.
I need to make a living.
If he is not going to help me meet my financial obligations and needs, then I pray for him to put me to death, because I could never survive unemployment again and I have elderly parents who need my help. Unemployed, I am a burden on them, not a help.
Love,
Jaypeeto4
+JMJ+
 
Perhaps you should change the way you pray. Rather than praying for results, just thank God for all you have, tell him that you know He understands your situation and that you trust He will take care of it, because you can’t take care of it. Basically, lay it all in his lap. When you pray, just sit quietly, if you can, and let Jesus love you. Love everyone around you at all times. Have faith and trust. You are very anxious about this, and of course, you need more money to live, but God doesn’t want you to be this anxious. Trust!

God doesn’t smite people who are misbehaving, even though we would like to see it happen sometimes.
 
Perhaps you should change the way you pray. Rather than praying for results, just thank God for all you have, tell him that you know He understands your situation and that you trust He will take care of it, because you can’t take care of it.

That’s very good advice. Of course, when you don’t have anything, it’s hard
to be too awfully grateful (I don’t mean to be sacrilegious, it’s just that I’m in a very
precarious situation). I am deeply grateful for having the job. After all my sins,
I don’t deserve it. BUT NEITHER DO MANY CHRISTIANS who have been very sinful in the past and are prospering quite well. AND NEITHER DO many, many people who reject any relationship with Christ whatsoever.

As for smiting people, dear friend you are sincerely mistaken.
He smites people all the time. The bible is full of examples, and it’s inerrant.
With me, it seems that with the beginning of my horrible troubles last year,
he decided to smite ME when I was repentant and quite devout.
Or it could have been the devil. I honestly don’t know.
Either way, the results were the same, and now I have PTSD from all of it.
But I know that because of my many past sins, I deserve the PTSD too.
So I pray for mercy.
And I pray that Chaplet of Mercy, in which Jesus who cannot lie,
solemnly promised that even the worst sinner in the world would receive His Grace
if he recited that chaplet EVEN JUST ONCE. Well. I have been
reciting it many, many times, often several times a day, for this and many other godly intentions, including conversion and salvation of my family, friends, enemies, all sinners, criminals, their victims, the Holy Souls in Purgatory, homosexuals & lesbians, adulterers, fornicators, liars, thieves, magistrates, the Pope, Bishops, my parish priest, my parishoners at my church, etc.
Love to you,
Jaypeeto4
+JMJ+
 
I guess what I meant was that you see people who live ungodly lives, but are successful and you wonder why God allows that. God allows people to dig some pretty big holes in their life that swallow them up. That’s when they turn to Him for help.

I am sorry for all your suffering. I am no stranger to suffering, myself, so I can sympathize and empathize. Remember this, Simon of Cyrene was forced to carry that cross for Jesus. He wanted nothing to do with it, and probably hated every minute of it. That was no mistake that that happened. God wanted us to see that we all participate Simon was carrying that cross without knowing that he was cooperating ( willfully or not) with Christ’s Redemption. And now many people carry Christ’s Cross and cooperate with Redemption without knowing it. Which saint was it who said she saw in a vision some people coming to heaven carrying their crossed high in the air and some come in dragging their crosses behind them, but they are still carrying it! You are carrying your cross and are playing a part of Redemption.

You and I have a lot in common, actually. I have spent most of my adult life suffering, AND we both say the Divine Mercy Chaplet everyday. I also tell the Lord to whom I direct the prayer, for all the young people who lost their way and didn’t have time to turn to God before they died, people who aren’t Christian, etc.

Do I think God smites me? Not sure. When a little baby is born with Leukemia, why would God smite that child when the little soul has no sins at all? So I am not sure I go along with the smiting theology. Yes, I know it is in the Old Testament, but Jesus told us that God is a loving Father and He wants to care for us. It’s all about love, not smiting.
 
**Do I think God smites me? Not sure. When a little baby is born with Leukemia, why would God smite that child when the little soul has no sins at all? So I am not sure I go along with the smiting theology. Yes, I know it is in the Old Testament, but Jesus told us that God is a loving Father and He wants to care for us. It’s all about love, not smiting. **

Hi, thanks so much for your comments.
I don’t believe that God smites (kills and condemns) babies and small children.
I believe that the children he TOLD the Israelites to kill when he was helping them first conquer the Land of Canaan, went to heaven since they were under the age of accountability, or at least to a state of natural happiness referred to as Limbo.
And though God caused David and BathSheba’s illegitimate baby to die, despite David’s many prayers, I believe that THAT was to smite DAVID (not the baby) as a form of discipline so that David, a man who knew God well, would NEVER dare to steal, commit adultery, betray and murder a dear friend, EVER again. As for David’s baby that died,
I believe it went straight to heaven. It had committed no act of sin itself, and the church teaches that NOBODY goes to hell who does not have the guilt of
((unrepented)) VOLUNTARY FAULT.
No, God doesn’t “smite” (in condemnation) babies.
And when he smites ADULTS, it is sometimes for DISCIPLINE,
and sometimes for CONDEMNATION. It all depends on the heart of the sinner
being smitten, which only God knows.
Love to you,
Jaypeeto4
+JMJ+
 
Well, if God has been smiting me all these years, then I pray he would give me the smarts to figure out what I need to change! 🙂

I will pray for you, that you become more successful at your job or another job opportunity arises. God bless you and once again…Trust in Jesus!👍
 
Why are you (and so many of us) going through such difficult and dangerous times event though we pray and try our best to be faithful?
I do not know, and on this earth I do not expect to find out.
I trust in this idea from Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence
GOD CONTROLS ALL EVENTS, WHETHER GOOD OR BAD
Nothing happens in the the universe without God willing and allowing it. This statement must he taken absolutely of everything with the exception of sin. ‘Nothing occurs by chance in the whole course of our lives’ is the unanimous teaching of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, ‘and God intervenes everywhere.’
God is all-knowing and all-loving. He is ensuring that all things work out for the good of our immortal souls. You are on the path that God knows is best for you. That’s hard to believe most of the time, isn’t it. Have faith. God WILL provide whatever is necessary. Do not worry. (I know, easier said than done …) Trust that whatever happens in your life has God’s stamp on it.

For you and your current plight I pray:
**Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion - inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to your holy will, which is love and mercy itself, Amen. **
 
I am continuing to pray for you and your family.
Please pray for me too. God loves each one of us, please have faith. I know this is a very hard time but just know that you are never alone and you have many people praying for you.
 
**Holy Virgin Mary, there is no one like Thee born in the world among women,

Daughter and Handmaid of the Most Highest King, the Heavenly Father, Mother of Our Most Holy Lord Jesus Christ, Spouse of the Holy Spirit:

Pray for us with St. Michael the Archangel and all the powers of Heaven and all the Saints before Thy Most Holy and Beloved Son, the Lord and Master.
Glory to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Amen.
**
 
Jaypeeto4,
I am about to start my Rosary. I will remember your situation and present it to our Lady (along with other intentions),

The LORD bless you and keep you;
The LORD make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious unto you;
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace.

Numbers 6:24-26

Dominus tecum, Reg.
 
Jaypeeto4,
I am about to start my Rosary. I will remember your situation and present it to our Lady (along with other intentions),

The LORD bless you and keep you;
The LORD make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious unto you;
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace.

Numbers 6:24-26

Dominus tecum, Reg.
You are in my prayers again tonight.
:signofcross:
 
All you folks, you are very, very kind indeed.
Thank you so much for your wonderful prayers.
They appear to be helping.
God bless you. I’ll keep you all posted.
Thanks again,
Jaypeeto4
+JMJ+
PRAY THE ROSARY DAILY
 
**Holy Virgin Mary, there is no one like Thee born in the world among women,

Daughter and Handmaid of the Most Highest King, the Heavenly Father, Mother of Our Most Holy Lord Jesus Christ, Spouse of the Holy Spirit:

Pray for us with St. Michael the Archangel and all the powers of Heaven and all the Saints before Thy Most Holy and Beloved Son, the Lord and Master.
Glory to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Amen.**

Jaypeeto4,
I am about to start my Rosary. I will remember your situation and present it to our Lady (along with other intentions),
 
To all of you kind people praying for me,
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH !!!

I find that other Catholics’s prayers for me, seem to be much
more efficacious than my own.


I apologize for venting like that in the top post,
but sometimes the frustration becomes overwhelming beyond comprehension.
I hope I didn’t upset anyone,
and I hope I didn’t offend God. I didn’t mean to do that, either.

Love to you all,
Jaypeeto4
+JMJ+
We understand; praying for you.

God Bless.
 
On this, The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary:
**
AVE MARIA, gratia plena, Dominus tecum.
Benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae.
Amen.**

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