#With God

[wiirocku]

Luke 1:37 (NASB1995) - For nothing will be impossible with God.”

#Luke 1:37 #nothing #will be #impossible #with God

[momentsbeforemass]

Intrusive thoughts

“What do you do about intrusive thoughts during prayer?”

This is the heart of a beautiful question I received from someone who’s thinking about becoming Christan. Specifically, a Catholic Christian. And they’re starting to pray the Rosary.

They’ve already figured out that the Rosary is meant to help you be present with God. It’s Christian meditation. To make a quiet place inside us to just be with God.

Something a lot of cradle Catholics don’t know.

They’re having problems with intrusive thoughts. It’s frustrating. It feels like the opposite of a quiet place to just be with God.

Something everyone of us who prays the Rosary knows all too well.

So what do you do about intrusive thoughts during prayer?

I don’t pretend to have all the answers. But I can tell you what I do. And it depends on the thought.

If it’s small potatoes. Something I just remembered. Or something I need to do. Or an email I need to return.

I just jot it down on my phone. Then I can let go of it. Because I know it won’t get lost.

What if it’s not small potatoes? What if it keeps coming back? What if it’s something I’m really wrestling with?

Maybe it’s a relationship that’s struggling or a health issue that’s getting worse. Maybe it’s a job search that’s gone cold or financial problems that keep growing. Or anything else that’s weighing on your heart.

Whatever it is, that’s what you need to be talking with God about.

If this time when you pray the Rosary, it creates a place for you to be with God – about what’s weighing on your heart?

Then that is how you need to pray.

Be with God, about what’s weighing on your heart.

If this time when you pray the Rosary, you never even finish the first decade – and the Lord’s Prayer trails off into pouring your heart out to God about the stone on your soul?

Then that is how you need to pray.

Pour your heart out to God about the stone on your soul.

If that is the Rosary that you need to pray in this moment, then that is how you should pray.

Whatever it is, share it with God. Let God be there for you.

Don’t waste your time trying to sort things out so you can have quiet time with God. Do it with God.

Pray as you are, not how you think you should be.

“We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.” - C.S. Lewis

Today’s Readings

#Intrusive thoughts #Prayer #Lord's Prayer #Rosary #Meditation #Quiet #With God #God #Jesus #Catholic #Christian #Church #C.S. Lewis #Moments Before Mass

[feminineenergylife]

#manifestation #manifesation #manifesting #prayer #with god #dreams #success #home #car #new car #business #successful #affirmations #abundance #believe #success moodboard #moodboard

[wecanbeperfect]

PERSERVED BY DISCRETION

#Wemustbebornagain #Wecanbeperfect #with God #with his Spirit #A More Perfect Tabernacle #Jesus Christ #The Son of God

[dearjewels22]

As I'm on this road to allowing my faith to blossom and getting closer to Christ, I want to attract a like-minded man that is on the same journey and willing to walk it with me.

#life #quotes #dear jewels #feelings #love #christian life #faith walk #walk in Christ #christian love #relationships #couple goals #goals #love life #single life #future husband #proverbs 31 #With God #black love #God in me

[arielarriaga]

What if I told you every relationship were a romantic one?

#with God

[peaceandnature]

There's no doubt about it

I'm on my way home

I'm not yet where I'm going

But I'm a long way from where I was

#heaven #Jesus #songs #words #lyrics #song lyrics #on my way home #confidence #hope #hopeful #with god #souls #your soul #song #music #wonderful music #the journey #life’s journey #peace #progress #rest

[fyexo]

kntv_info

#exo #d.o #p: other #with god

[sylvialuceleroberts]

Life Hurts

#youtube #life hurts #WITH God #you are not alone #don't give up

[mohabbaat]

december???? what next??? 2024?????

#god forbid 2025

[plaguedocboi]

I hate the “open floor plan” that everyone is obsessed with in houses now. I want nooks and crannies and bizarre floor plans. I don’t need to be able to see what someone is doing on the other side of the house. I want places to hide and lurk and dwell in the shadows. I am the beast who awaits in the labyrinth

#stop renovating old weird houses into white hotel lobbies for gods sake

[wiirocku]

John 1:1 (NKJV) - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

#John 1:1 #in the #begininning #was the #Word #Word was #with God #and the #Word was God

[momentsbeforemass]

Silent Times

“The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him.”

That’s how the Gospel wraps up the Christmas story. You’ve got all the amazing events surrounding the birth of Jesus. And then?

Not much of anything. Apart from finding Jesus in the Temple, there’s nothing until Jesus is 30.

Biblical scholars refer to this as the Silent Years. The Bible falls silent. Because there’s nothing to see here.

But just because there’s nothing to see, that doesn’t mean that nothing is happening. So what is happening?

The Gospel tells us, “the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him.” Which means?

When it comes to the life of Jesus, this is God leading by example. How? Think of the surrender to God’s will we see in the Gethsemane Prayer (“…yet not as I will, but as You will.”). That’s probably the most recognizable example of God setting a pattern for us with the life of Jesus. But it’s far from the only one.  

The Silent Years are the same thing. God is setting a pattern for us. So what’s the pattern?

That in those times in our lives when it seems like nothing is happening. Like what we’re doing doesn’t make any difference. Like our prayers don’t matter. Like we’re stuck.

That’s when we have a choice. We can let ourselves get frustrated by that stuck feeling. Or we can turn to God, and let Him use this Silent Time.

We can let go of our timetables, our schedules for what has to happen and when. Drop up our wisdom about how things have to work. And let ourselves be filled with God’s wisdom.

Because in those Silent Times, that’s when God is doing the unseen work on us that needs to be done. There’s nothing to see, because it’s all happening on the inside.

If we give the Silent Times to God, God will use them to change us, to develop us, to grow us.

If we let God use them, the Silent Times will be our schools of patience, of faithfulness, of wisdom, of endurance, of courage, of strength.

Because the Silent Times are when God teaches us what to trust. And what not to trust.

To not trust in our own understanding. To not jump off after our own ideas, or whatever grabs our attention. To let go of thinking that we have to do it all by ourselves.

And, instead, to trust Him. To trust that God will lead. And that God will provide. 

Doing that? Using the Silent Times well? It’s hard. One of the big reasons that it’s hard?

Notice that this time in Jesus’ life is known as the “Silent Years.”

While I would be totally fine with the Silent Afternoon. Or, better yet, the Silent Minute-and-a-Half. This stuff takes time. Why?

I can tell you one of the reasons. If it’s just a Silent Minute-and-a-Half, or even a Silent Afternoon? You and I can do that on our own. We can fake our way through that.

That’s why it can take years. Because God’s got to help us get over ourselves. And that can take some time.

But that’s got to happen first. Before we can ever grow and change. Before God can ever trust you and me with all that He has planned for us.

So as we wrap up a year that we will be happy to see behind us. Set yourself up to grow and change in the New Year.

Starting today, make the time every day. To spend with God.

Make the time during the day. To spend with God.

When you do, ask God to help you get over yourself. Ask God to help you rely on Him.

Ask God to make you into someone that He can trust with all that He has planned for you.

Make this New Year your Silent Time.

Today’s Readings

#Silent Times #New Year #God's Plan #Trust #Grow #With God #God #Jesus #Catholic #Christian #Church #Moments Before Mass

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

#greek mythology #ares #athena #greek gods #dont get me wrong it aint athena slander but it sure is ares praise #on some level at least #man justly accused of bad things deserves some mid praise more at 11 #thank you romi for helping me with words though i duly noted you insisted on ares not being cautious rather than him not being careful #romi be like “i want him to care” and honestly good you should say it #also EPIC led to this and i just..... i want to draw some animatics man i just need infinite time now #my long lost love for greek myths just will never stop coming and they dont stop coming and they dont stop coming #i want some vulture design in here for ares but not sure about this one #kochei doodles

[lotrmusical]

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

#was calling beckett and scouring the works of eliza cook looking for lesbianism #good amounts of lesbianism in evidence but unfortunately very little in the way of good poetry #APART from this worm one which DOES NOT MISS #eliza cook #is there a thriving eliza cook tag on tumblr. somehow i doubt it #the hand of the giant and the heart of the brave / must turn weak and submit to the worm and the grave! #not an original theme ofc but GOD the treatment is delightful. so fresh so gleeful some rlly nice use of sound. rlly solidly constructed #words #gay belligerence

[tariah23]

Oh…. Well, it’s over for Crunchyroll I guess

#Crunchyroll #piracy #funimation #money hungry ass streaming service #rambling #I’ve never paid for a streaming service in my life thank god #I appreciated using others accounts but I personally cannot see myself paying this much for a service if I had the funds 😭! #get back to pirating kings!!! #anime has always been one of the easiest forms of media to pirate anyway so y’all got this #CR is definitely not worth paying for though #CR is certainly not worth paying this much for even if it’s a yearly one time fee #capitalism #the fact that CR has always had pretty bad quality as a streaming service anyway #it buffers every time you pause or rewind anything