I’m so sorry that you have been going through this pain for so long! What does your pastor have to say about it?
I love the fact that when you get knocked down, Sanctus, you keep getting back up. You must drive JoeJerk bonkers!
Don't be afraid to distract yourself with nice things, a steak dinner, a good drink. Going out with friends. QA holiday, a pilgrimage, an adventure, looking for new friends. A hobby. Reading good books, looking at good films, having an adventure. Having a pet. Also don't be afraid to change your prayer life. Getting out walking while praying is wonderful. Try not to live in your own mind.
Hi julie Marie. I was talking to a Priest last night and I told him I was experiencing darkness but he said to just keep praising the name of Jesus over again and to say it loud if necessary until the darkness goes away, and it worked. There are times lately when I am doing very well and making progress so I just have to keep persevering and focusing on the positive.
I was praying for you last night in exactly the manner the priest directed. I think you are being directed onto the contemplative path by God. Beautiful.
Great advice. This has helped me. I am going through great physical trialls. But these turn also into a spiritual one. During great suffering I find that rather than relying on the great tradition of the Saints of the Church in uniting their sufferings to those of Jesus and using them for good, I seem to turn in upon myself. I am not the only person who has got ill and suffered greatly, in the present or in the past, but my attentio becomes selfishly focused inward - on me, me me. My soul suffers great darkness at not beibg able to pray at all. "Write this for the benefit of distressed souls; when a soul sees and realizes the gravity of it sins, when the whole abyss of the misery into which it immersed itself is displayed before its eyes, let it not despair, but with trust let it throw itself into the arms of My mercy, as a child into the arms of its beloved mother. These souls have a right of priority to My compassionate Heart, they have first access to My mercy. Tell them that no soul that has called upon My mercy has been disappointed or brought to shame. I delight particularly in a soul which has placed its trust in My goodness." (Diary of St. Faustina 1541)
Another prayer request for my young friend Elizabeth who has had much trouble with conceiving and carrying babies to term, and is expecting again.. they could not find a heartbeat yesterday so she's going for more testing and an ultrasound. She's not doing well emotionally. Pleased pray that baby is fine. Elizabeth's cross has been heavy and she is such a sweet, happy person. Also, her husband is in surgery for a hernia this morning so please if you can keep the family in prayer it would console her immensely
