You Are Never Alone

 

August 6, 2024

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 Hi! How is each and every one? Do you ever find yourself or feel yourself alone?  It would help to apply the COAL approach whenever you do find or feel yourself alone at any given day, time or situation.  You will realize you are never alone.  Discover for yourself the reasons why you are never alone. And resolve to never feel alone because you are truly never alone.  The mere fact that you are, there is somebody inside you, beside you and around you holding you in His heart and mind, loving you.

Consider your divine filiation.  You are a daughter/son/child of God created in His image and likeness.  He loves you and He wants you to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this life so that you can be happy with Him in His kingdom in Heaven after. Ask Jesus to teach you how to love freely, totally, faithfully and fruitfully (cf. February 20-March 5, 2024, The Challenge to Change, family-occasions.blogspot.com).

Always keep Jesus present wherever you are, study in His presence, work in his presence, walk in His presence, rest in His presence and you will never be alone or feel alone because Jesus is with you anywhere you are. You will be able to put Him on top of everything and in everything. Then He will draw all things to Himself.  

Following is the continuation of Our Divine Longing for Dignity (From Broken Gods, Hope, Healing, and the Seven Longings of the Human Heart, Gregory K. Popcak, Ph. D. Ch 5).

The Social Dimension of Envy

The Thomson’s gazelle is the McDonald’s Big Mac of the Serengeti. Every predator eats them.  But because they are herd animals, they are not so easily taken. They are fast, and they have powerful antlers they can use to attack or defend themselves with.  If a lioness wants to stop and pick up some fast food for her cubs, she knows that she needs to separate her prey from the herd.  A single gazelle is relatively easy pickings.

Always live the communion of the saints in Heaven, the Holy Souls in Purgatory and the broken gods that you and I are on earth struggling to be the saints God wants us to be through His help.

Aleteia

 Social envy is a tool that Satan uses to ensnare us.  Humans are social animals.  Our communal nature is an essential part of our humanity.  Stress is always hard, and remaining faithful under stress is always harder still, but if our supportive relationships remain intact, we can usually rally. 

Satan knows this, so he uses his best tricks to get us alone.  Where pride causes us to stand alone, convincing us that we have no need of others, envy causes us to stand at a distance from those who could support us. 

God wants us to remain safe and in close communion with him, yet Satan wants us to stand apart so that he can devour us.  Envy makes us despise the company of others.  Envy causes us to look at all the blessings God has given others and, instead of being inspired to hope that God’s generosity will be similarly manifested, in some way, in our own lives, envy brings us the despair of thinking that we must be worth nothing because we do not have everything those around us have.

Consider the talents and gifts God has given you for which you are happy having them and using them in your life, studies, daily activities, work, and relationships.


As always what ought we to do?  Let us talk to God about all the above thoughts in our quiet moments of conversation with Him.  Smile and enjoy even more whatever He tells you and heed them cheerfully.

See you in the next post, “May tomorrow be a perfect day; may you find love and laughter along the way; may God keep you in his tender care; ‘til He brings us together again.”

Affectionately,                    

Guadalupinky   

 

 

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