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Seeking Peace

Lately there have been so many hard deaths to have to deal with. The latest one was one of the hard ones, the one where I struggle and try to grasp at anything to tell me why. Why did this have to happen? I just do not understand. I want to understand so that the loss won’t sting as much. To see people you love have to endure so much pain is gut wrenching. I had a restless sleep last night because I just couldn’t quit thinking. It is hard to know that we will never fully understand because we were not made to. Things like this that happen test our faith in so many ways. It disrupts the peace within our hearts. Beloved, do not be surprised that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as if something strange were happening to you. But rejoice to the extent that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that when His glory is revealed you may also rejoice exultantly. 1 Peter 4: 12-13 The Catholic Bible, Personal Study Edition. Oxford University Press, 2007. Trusting in the unknown is hard at times because God has…

Disappointed

Being disappointed is hard to deal with some times. There are times when your disappointments come from the decisions that you made or when there is something you really wanted but God told you that you have to wait. If God tells you now and you follow the flesh instead of trusting in Him, you can become disappointed when that doesn’t work out either. I rea in a book recently that we become slaves to whatever has mastered us. If we trust in our flesh more than God then we become slaves to our flesh. If we trust social media before we trust in His word we will become slaves to what the internet feeds us. If we trust the scale to hold our worth then we become slaves to that number it shows. If we begin to trust in ourselves more than we trust on God we become slaves to earthly things. For me I have put my trust in a lot of things social media, the scale, people of this earth and every single time I have been left disappointed because I have put my trust in things that cannot uphold it. When we are disappointed…