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To: 353FMG
God's mercy is infinite, but His plans are often a mystery to us. That doesn't mean God isn't merciful, it simply means that what we desire doesn't line up with God's plan.

Christ Himself prayed in the garden for the chalice to be passed from Him, and He was then excruciatingly tortured and killed -- but His final prayer was "not my will, but thine." Without the Crucifixion, none of us could enter the Kingdom. It was the ultimate act of mercy, but it probably didn't appear that way to the apostles at the time.

Resignation to, working towards acceptance and even to the joyful embrace of God's plan regardless of how painful it is for us in a temporal sense is something we all have to discipline ourselves to move towards.

9 posted on 05/02/2016 12:24:15 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Wow, beautiful words — you must have a job. Want to trade places?


10 posted on 05/02/2016 12:30:16 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

The theft of the Papacy from Cardinal Siri to the leftist John XXIII was the beginning of the end. Vatican II followed and the steady destruction followed. It continues today with this Marxist imposter in the Seat of St. Peter. It will not however end well for them.


12 posted on 05/02/2016 12:41:22 PM PDT by tenthirteen (leftis)
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