I just want to say this: If you are expecting perfection from this world you are going to be disappointed. The media is not perfect. Your parents are not perfect. Your kids, your spouse, your job, your house… the vaccines. Nothing and no one in this life is perfect except God. We all should be [...]
Tag: theosis
Inner child, Confession, Ancestral Sin
What is your reaction to being told to talk to your “inner child”? My reaction was uncomfortable. I wanted to laugh because it felt like the punchline of a joke. I looked it up to get suggestions on how to do it and LITERALLY THOUGHT, “This is STUPID!” A year has passed and I am [...]
Resisting God’s will is Pride
My greatest struggle is, “Thy will be done.” I want God to give MY will to be done and when God will not give me what I want, instead of trusting God’s love and mercy, I either want to rage at him or stop (talking) praying to him because, “It’s no use anyway.” The worse [...]
Christ is Risen!
It is a gift of God to be able to celebrate Christ’s Resurrection. This is the first time in years that I can celebrate the feast with a community of believers. Last year… COVID had us doing online services while Fr. J traveled to homes to provide the sacraments. We were hurting to not be [...]
Theosis comes
Was thinking as we are preparing for the Tridiuum that this Holy Week has been especially eye opening. Normally I am trying to ‘help’ keep things going and this year I just don’t WANT to. I’m helping in some stuff, but maybe it is growth that I do NOT want to help? I have backed [...]
Struggling to Float
It has taken 5 years, a pandemic, and our own building to understand something that was instinctively understood previously, and I’m still struggling to put it into words, but The Liturgy must be Served. And yet, practically, it cannot ALWAYS BE served. It is both served for the laity and NOT served ‘for us’ (the [...]
Why does God allow Suffering?
Was reading in my newsfeed (on a friend’s page) about someone talking about their struggle with believing God loves us. He mentioned that a parent who allowed their children to rape and kill one another (for example) would be considered negligent. We think God is not just. It’s been rattling in my head ever since [...]
Christian Hate
https://christianfight.com/dogma-or-progress/?fbclid=IwAR0Ziv5RlGXHKl5GfSv0pg2auumNIIVU3GiOsN0ZB-EVg0umD56J0uvzAjc From the article… “I’m not going to pretend that there aren’t some hateful, angry, and vengeful people out there that do some terrible things. However, most Americans that don’t agree with the above behavior try not to force their own beliefs on those that do. I, myself have relatives and acquaintances that have participated [...]
My ‘enemy’
We are all humans who fall short. Politics is pointless. Love my neighbor. Give alms to the poor. Fast. Pray. Go to Church. Serve my fellow man and try to find the beauty of God in my ‘enemy’ who is just someone who sees the world differently than I do because they have different life [...]
Church is growing
We finally moved into our own building and suddenly the church is exploding in growth. We’ve tripled our size in the last month and people are calling to inquire about coming. After so long of it just being our small group, to have so much growth is both exciting and scary. Grateful to God, but [...]
My Theosis Journey 
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