Perfection and anxiety repost with additions
The entire world may be facing this financial difficulties--not just me. Banks make mistakes, people create problems where there are none. Patience and trust are the only solutions. A friend of mine just lost a tremendous amount of money because of the Euro crisis. I have had smaller problems, but stressful. but, I am a bell-weather. Things happen to me first in order to warn others. I do not know why, but this has been the case for a very long time.
Some of you may be able to do this already-trust. God bless you. It is a grace. It is a gift of knowing Divine Providence. I know in my deepest soul and heart that He has not given me a spirit of fear, or anxiety, but one of power, love and a sound mind. When I originally posted this, I did not know this, but now I do. Amazing, in less than two years, a major healing of mind and body took place and I did not even see it happening. It began in Cobh.
If we all knew this, how easy some relationships would be, as anxiety interferes with love. I had to apologize for causing another person irritation because of my own anxiety. Silly me. This is a bad habit for women. We can fall into nagging and being so anxious that love is blocked. But, forgiveness is good, and we need to be reminded that perfect love drives out fear. One must decide not to be anxious. Love and freedom are in the will, not the emotions. The emotions will follow. Believe me on this one.
In my series on perfection, I add this. In order to be perfect, we must trust in Abba Father. We are not to be presumptuous, but to be like a little child asking for our needs. Be not afraid,
Be not afraid to ask. That is the key.
"Divine Father, call all men to Yourself. Let all the world proclaim Your fatherly goodness and Your divine mercy... Divine Father, Infinite Goodness poured out on all peoples, may You be known, honored, and loved by all men."
May I also add something which many know. We cannot be made perfect in a vacuum. We need to be in
relationship with others. We also need to ask others to pray for us and we need to pray for others. This is our Faith, our baptismal unity in the Church. I saw a note today addressed to someone which was shown to me. The note
read something like, "God open her heart so that she knows I really love her." That is God speaking to you and
to me. God, open our hearts so that we know your love truly. We close our hearts because of fear and anxiety.
What a great wonder this is, to be loved by the Almighty God.
He gave us His Own Son. What Love is this. I trust in Love. I trust that true love happens for a reason and that
love is always from God. I trust that if love is from God, it is a good which will come to fruition. Perhaps, we shall
not see love in this world, but we shall in the next.
I pray for my readers and I hope you pray for me.
I find that in some cultures, no one wants to seem to be in need. No one wants to seem to have to need anyone
else. These ideals are false, based on a rabid individualism which is not the way of either the Catholic ideal of
charity, or the ideal of Catholic community
By the way, keep a Thank you Diary. Everyday, try and think of at least ten things for which one can thank God.
Clean water, friends, food, shoes, daily Mass, the list can be longer than ten. I highly suggest you try this
if you tend to forget Who gives us all. God loves a grateful heart. Thank you God for everything.
Be perfect, even as your Heavenly Father is Perfect. He desires our perfection in Him.
I can honestly say that one learns trust in the Dark Night of the Senses and the Soul. One cannot see the way,
but it is there. God leads one down a dark tunnel in order to lead one to a new light.