[Salvation]

This seems appropriate after this election.

[Salvation]

Discernment — **it involves our accepting illness, poverty, sorrow, loneliness, humiliation and uncertainty as being part of God’s will… and that isn’t easy!**

Catholic Ping!

[ottbmare]

If my house burns down and I am penniless and hungry, I can accept that as being part of God’s will for my life, and thank Him for helping me through it. I can try to glorify Him by the way I handle these sorrows and sufferings.

But if my son becomes a drug addict and stabs me to death, I can’t consider that either of those events are God’s will! If a madman butchers millions of people, that’s not God at work—God is not capable of evil. Some things that happen on this earth are not God’s will—they are the actions of Satan. We are told that Satan prowls the world causing pain and harm, and seeking the ruin of souls, and some bad things that happen are his doing.

[Unam Sanctam]

I am so upset about what has happened to this beloved country. I read various Catholic bloggers counseling about the need to set not our trust in princes and seek the kingdom not of this world of which Our Lord spoke to Pilate. However, I still just feel so bitter, particularly that a majority of Americans apparently want the course of moral and economic suicide we are on. I know that I will eventually reach a place of serenity and trust in God and learn not to care about US politics, but I’m not quite there yet. Feeling very Eeyore-ish today.

[HarleyD]

It is to simply accept everything that happens in your life as being God’s will.

Absolutely correct. People pine over whether or not they are in God's will. Well, if they're Christians, God will make sure they are in His will. His rod and His staff, they guide us.

But after this election perhaps we should all reflect on the following:

Psa 1:1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
Psa 1:2 but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
Psa 1:3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
Psa 1:4 The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
Psa 1:5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
Psa 1:6 for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

[Biggirl]

How true. This writing comes at a very important and difficult time for those of us who were hoping for a Romney win.