Episode 111: Messing Up the Will of God 

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Father Jacob Bertrand made a joke 😂😳 Even though it was true, still sort of a joke from him😂😂

it is almost over decade that my dad expired and also mom expired

I’ve got my kids’ teeth in a wooden box. (That’s where the tooth fairy put them late at night, in a sleepy daze.)

I saved some of my kids teeth too, it does sound odd though, doesn't it?😊🤣

[ ▼ BOOKS AND QUOTES ▼ ] I. Books 10:40 - Twitch Upon A Thread; Book 2 of Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - The Queer Feet; The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton - Bonconte I da Montefeltro; Canto 5:88-108; Purgatorio (Book 2 of The Divine Comedy) by Dante Alighieri 27:13 - Searching for and maintaining peace by Jacques Philippe - Interior Freedom by Jacques Philippe 30:02 - The Religious Sense by Luigi Giussani II. Quotes 26:03 I think just this simple fact that God loves your destiny more than you do is a really helpful one for discernment or decision making in a more humble and modest sense. 26:13 Sometimes we feel like, again like you said, we need to wrestle this gnostic knowledge from God's mind or like we need to somehow convince God that it's in His best interest to give us insight into our own futures... When truth be told, God is making Himself known (and) God is making Himself loved in the way that is best suited to our growth and salvation and to His glory. So we have to be able to believe that, and to trust that, and ultimately to love that reality. And when we start loving that reality, that's when we have the confidence to say... "All right, I'm going to play the hand that I'm dealt because this is the only hand that I have to play. So my real life is here and whether or not it seems better or worse by comparison to the person on my left or on my right is a kind of uninteresting claim... What is interesting is that God loves me and that God wants me to know Him and to love Him and He is supplying me with everything sufficient to that end, so I need only consent." 27:13 When you were talking about kind of keeping panic at bay, I was thinking of Jacques Philippe's book Searching For and Maintaining Peace. In this particular setting, I think of Jacques Philippe's book Interior Freedom that point about consent. This idea that real life is not elsewhere. Real life is here and by recognizing that fact, by loving that fact, I'm able to embrace the will of God in all of its small particular details. And to do so with a kind of spirit of abandonment... to do so with a spirit of genuine freedom, so that I'm not haunted by the fact of "it could have been otherwise" or "it could have been better" or "I could...(fill in the appropriate blank)" It's just a matter of simply saying that God is here and He makes Himself present to me. By responding generously to His grace, I may be present to Him and He'll do with it what He will. I think ultimately that gives you the kind of certainty that the will of God may look this way or that way but ultimately it will be good... provided that it's His.

Thank you! This was very useful.

@@veronicahispana Happy it helps : )

How could MK Gandhi have a baby without ever marrying ...? Truth and virtue are ....... essentially questionable contents Who can fund more than one child ? Countries funding one child don't really fund any one ?

Your 4th paragraph - sometimes I wonder if that's me.

@@thisgirl5933 In my experience, being completely honest with ourselves about every aspect of us and in us which is still resistant to the total surrender - this the right step, the right reflective/repentant work which can bring us closer to trusting in God's grace and mercy, to accomplish the surrender. Don't be discouraged. It takes courage to hide no longer - to enact fully our own coming into the light. To be aware of our own insincerity, how we put on masks, how we cater to human perceptions, even how we deceive ourselves in our inner life - all these are the crucial humiliations which lead us to that state of humility that allows God to work in us. "Despise yourself for God's sake, and without your being aware of it your glory will become great." St Isaac of Nineveh God bless and thank you for the care you take.

Purge your life from sin? Is that possible?

I love the opening banter!