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To: metmom
Spare me from the *sympathy* of a Catholic. I’ve endured too much of that in my life.

I see it as a deep need for wanted what we have but too proud to admit it. What they are screaming for is sympathy for themselves and the bondage they are in - they are 'in' but can't get 'out' - since it's all they know and pride holds them there.
3,184 posted on 11/20/2011 10:11:57 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name
I see it as a deep need for wanted what we have but too proud to admit it. What they are screaming for is sympathy for themselves and the bondage they are in - they are 'in' but can't get 'out' - since it's all they know and pride holds them there.

Nothing seems to irk a Catholic as much someone who has confidence in the promises of God, that those promises are for the here and now and that we can have confidence to boldly approach the throne of grace to find help in our time of trouble.

God is truth and cannot lie and our not trusting or believing His promises to us that He saw fit to record in Scripture for us is essentially calling God a liar. It's saying that we know better than God and that what He's promised us isn't true or trustworthy.

Thank God that He did not leave us as orphans but gave us the Holy Spirit, by whom we are sealed until the day of redemption, so that by Him we can cry out Abba, Father.

Philippians 1:6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

3,198 posted on 11/21/2011 4:44:15 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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