It's been 231 (of 365) Days since we started this journey of #PrayersWrappedInQuotes! 🙏 🕯️ REFLECTION GUIDE below ⬇️😊 as you read this! Your day is going to be awesome after spending the next 10 mins reflecting!🕯️: Today, I'd like you to reflect and write about 3 THINGS THAT MAKE YOU TRULY HAPPY. Yesterday, we talked … Continue reading PWinQ #231: Be Happy Now
#78: A Prayer of One Who is in Constant Physical Pain
Today, we pray for those who are sick in mind, body and spirit. It is a difficult situation to be in--we have been in that kind of situation at one time or another--and we know how difficult it can get. Think of one you know who is going through this right now and offer this … Continue reading #78: A Prayer of One Who is in Constant Physical Pain
#77: The Tears of Solidarity
Today we pray for the grace to stand in solidarity with the rest of suffering humanity. Today, just pause and pray to God to give you the grace of Compassion, so that your life may be touched and affected and so you can put your life in the service of them whose lives are near … Continue reading #77: The Tears of Solidarity
#52: When I Despair
There is much to despair about in this world--pain and suffering seems to be part of every day life. In Pope Francis' visit to the Philippines, one young girl asked him, “Why is God allowing such things to happen, even if it is not the fault of the children? And why are there only very … Continue reading #52: When I Despair
In Sickness and In Suffering
Nobody wants to be sick. Unless one is a hypochondriac. As an adult, getting the flu, fever, colds, migraines or muscle pains can be a very personal kind of suffering. You're sick enough to get your daily activities and normal disposition disrupted but not really sick enough to merit going to the hospital. You have … Continue reading In Sickness and In Suffering
Jealousy and Suffering
Most of us deal with jealousy in some form, and when it comes up, it’s never pretty. It might be jealousy when your girlfriend seems interested in someone else, or when one of your best friends becomes close with someone else, or when your parents give a lot of attention to your sibling, or when … Continue reading Jealousy and Suffering
What Does God Do When I Hurt?
One of the most powerful sentences in the Bible could be the shortest: “Jesus wept.” (John 11:35) See that man hunched over by the wall. Leaning. Steadying himself. Weeping. That’s Jesus, the Savior of the World. Not fighting. Not healing. Not preaching. But crying. His dear friend Lazarus just passed away and the sight of … Continue reading What Does God Do When I Hurt?
Love and Suffering
It does not out work out the way romantic movies tell us. These movies conclude on an ecstatic but idealistic assumption that love ends happily ever after. Not all are lucky in love. Not all live happily ever after. Or those happily ever afters are not the ones we consistently dreamed of as happy. There are always struggles within. Relationships still break apart. Lovers reveal themselves as all too human, prone to error, temptation, and strife. Love manifests itself not as a matter of luck but a dreadful battlefield—an exhausting war of comings and goings, of sin and forgiveness, of toil and suffering. Stripped off of its eros, magic, and fantasies, what we are left with is a fragile and futile reality of love that hurts, decays, and is finite. Love, as we imagined and desired it to be, remains (reminiscent of Descartes) an elusive dream. It is an elusive dream that torments us.
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