following more of the beauty and love of God
Thank You Jesus Christ for Creating The Way of Your Word!
You have been is faithful with what you are given, so you will be given so much more to understand. . . When YOU TREASURE the WORD of God in YOUR LIFE, all else comes with ease. As the days are lengthened to meet the Life of God, filled with this Joy
“Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart. Honor the Lord from your wealth, And from the first of all your produce;” Proverbs 3:3, 9 NASB2020 https://bible.com/bible/2692/pro.3.9.NASB2020
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding.” Proverbs 3:5 NASB2020 https://bible.com/bible/2692/pro.3.5.NASB2020
I am here for you Jesus. I know that it’s always all about you. It’s about a long and happy life filled with the Fruit of Gods Word! I Love You Dearest Loving Lord Jesus Christ. Proverbs 3, two verses are critical. KEEP KINDNESS AND TRUTH!!!!“In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and turn away from evil.”
Discernment is Choosing Love over Fear!
Evangelism by attraction vs promotion is really about sharing more love.
Function out of love, not fear, attracts interest where it is easy to share.
An answer without a question is seen as manipulation
Make a friend, be a friend, bring a friend to Christ. => faith, trust & mystery begins with asking about their lives. What was great for you this week?
Saint Ignatius of Loyola's step-by-step process for discernment of spirits is based on his
Spiritual Exercises. He provides different rules for those in different spiritual states. The fundamental process involves three steps: Become Aware, Understand, and Take Action.Discern LOVE next
Step 1: Become awareThe first step is to recognize and pay attention to the "motions of the soul," which are your interior movements, including thoughts, emotions, desires, feelings, and inclinations. This is an exercise in prayerful self-awareness. Ignatius suggests practices such as the daily Examen to help you review your day and notice these inner stirrings.
Step 2: Understand and reflect
Once you are aware of these interior motions, you must analyze them to understand their origin. The crucial aspect of Ignatian discernment for those growing in holiness is distinguishing between two primary states of the soul:
- Spiritual consolation: This is a movement of the soul that increases faith, hope, and charity. It brings a sense of peace, courage, and closeness to God. It can also include tears of compassion or an increase in spiritual fervor.
- Spiritual desolation: This is the opposite of consolation. It is a movement that brings darkness, anxiety, sadness, and discouragement. It can also lead to a lack of faith, hope, and love, and a feeling of separation from God.
- The good spirit (God) uses consolation to encourage and strengthen those who are striving to serve God.
- The evil spirit (the enemy of human nature) uses desolation to put up obstacles, create confusion, and discourage the person from moving forward in their spiritual life.
Based on your understanding of the movements, you must take the appropriate action:
- Accept and live according to what is from the good spirit. Embrace the feelings of peace, courage, and love that come from God.
- Reject and remove what is not of God. When experiencing spiritual desolation, resist the temptations that arise from it. Do not make any major decisions while in a state of desolation. Instead, persevere in prayer and spiritual practices. RENOUNCE satan IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST and COMMAND THE spirit of satan TO LEAVE IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST!
- How the evil spirit works: The evil spirit will attempt to sow doubt, anxiety, and discouragement. It might remind you of past sins or point out imperfections to cause you to lose hope and quit trying. The evil spirit's temptations can also be disguised as something good and subtle, leading you to compromise your commitment to holiness.
- How the good spirit works: The good spirit will bring courage, strength, and consolation. It will affirm your efforts and help you to persist in your good works, removing obstacles and giving you quiet and peace.
Summary of the process for those growing in holiness
- Become attentive: Notice the interior movements within your soul.
- Characterize the movement: Does it feel like consolation (peace, joy, growth in faith) or desolation (anxiety, sadness, discouragement)?
- Identify the source: If it's consolation, assume it is from the good spirit. If it's desolation, be on guard against the evil spirit's temptations.
- Respond appropriately: Welcome consolation and use it to strengthen your resolve. Resist desolation, and do not make decisions based on it.
- Seek counsel: If still in doubt, Ignatius advises seeking the wisdom of a spiritual director or wise counselor.
What you have felt now in this is very important please write specifically about this feeling above. Chapter 14, adolescent 151, storing up Gratitude, Dry Spells, and Dessert
Experiences….GRATITUDE We all want to be Happy? Be Grateful.Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB, NY Monk in 90s, review week five, principals and foundation: WHY STATEMENT, Lexio Divinia, divine reading, read slow, deliberately, words of phrase that sparkles. Spark of God… Divine Listening….
These Experiences…. That You are engaged with, opens more for you all the time. . . . You see so much clarity and focus all the time. And again, you are getting the support and guidance that you need to step into a new higher place. Each new insight, realization, and understanding shifts your whole world and your experience into a higher level. Yes, you have seen this before and understand how much your responsibility shifts and grows. Now as you grow, learn, and share more this increased understanding and respect for your own personal place and responsibility shifts before you. You are finding more ease and comfort as you progress and grow into these activities that you really delight in.I know and see so much GRATITUDE. I try to love and share my own kindness and joy around me all the time. Each new experience I have is about sharing the love and joy I have with You, and all that comes is new creative and inspiring opportunities. I really have been trying to accept BEING twelve again and having that young ambitious attitude to stepout and do more all the time. I'm learning to trust more and step more freely into events and opportunities. Each day I'm speaking more with Jesus, my saints and guardians, and each day I'm doing and following more of the beauty and love of God. I know it is really about trust and acceptance, knowing I have the Grace and support of Jesus to act and step more clearly and consciously into all the experiences and opportunities set before me.
Yes your experiences…. All are about your love and power in Christ Jesus. Each day you allow your love to grow and evolve before you. Fearlessly you share and understand more that is before you and each day we send you new and exciting opportunities for you to enjoy and
share in the Joy and the love that you are graced with!GRATITUDE: Thank You Dear Lord Jesus Christ, I Love You Dear Lord Jesus Christ, Thank You Dear Lord Jesus Christ, I Love You Dear Lord Jesus Christ, Please lend Your Strength, Love, & Wisdom to step into more each day…
Experiences…. Really include all the challenges you have before you. Again you are always pressed to do so much more and really have no bearing or understanding as to what is really happening or where it is all going. Trying to be twelve and stay in joy as you bike and listen to us is really wonderful, but it is not clear to where it's going. You get a feeling about school and so much more but still have some serious gaps in your understandingGRATITUDE means that have faith and trust that all things will come around and be the best for everyone...
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