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To: txhurl

I have read about them, but for years they never came to even attempt to help me, so I feel I have to figure out why. It is difficult because I do feel that I may have died of suicidal depression by now if I really was sure that there was not a God.


22 posted on 11/15/2013 10:26:53 PM PST by freedom462
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To: freedom462

Sometime, people don’t recognize the “help” they get. They may think “help” is a detriment-—but when you look back at events and reflect-—you find that some of the most horrific things that happened in your life, led to the most wonderful things.

Pain and hardship leads to the greatest spiritual growth and most Knowledge.

People who have gone on to do great things never had an “easy” life. They had to learn Fortitude in childhood and you only do that when you face adversity. Fortitude is a Virtue. Virtue is taught and habituated. Being grateful for what you have is major. You are always better off than someone.

Sometimes expectations are really messed up. Life is hard and just a short journey but everyone has a cross to bear....it is the afterlife which is the utopia.

Love and trust God. Then you will have pure joy and everything else falls in order and you realize how good God is.


31 posted on 11/15/2013 11:19:19 PM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: freedom462

WE son’t just live after our earthly part of our lives - the soul that passes back Home, existed also before we came here.
We had knowledge, before we chose this existance, that this mortal life would be subject to joy and to grief 0 that it rains ‘on the good and the bad alike.”

We knew we would be subject to illness, accidnent, tragedies as well as joy. We can, through wisdom, avoid and/or mitigate a lot of it by making wise choices and by learning how to be safer.

We can also learn how to hear and heed the ‘still small voice’ that will guide us from harm or help us through it.

But we accepted the conditions when we agreed to the challenge. But we are never really alone. He kept His promise - that He would send us ‘a comforter.’

Each one of us has that companion and we CAN learn to hear that still small voice and learn to recognize the love and help we will get if we allow it...”Ask and ye shall receive.”

He knows.
He cares.
He hears your prayers.


41 posted on 11/16/2013 12:41:23 AM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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