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The will of God will never take you,
Where the grace of God cannot keep you,
Where the arms of God cannot support you,
Where the riches of God cannot supply your needs,
Where the power of God cannot endow you.
- Author
unknown
(Where do you struggle with accepting God's will at this time in your life? Let this quote reassure you of God's providential care.) |
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HG 1:1-8; PS 149:1B-2, 3-4, 5-6A AND 9B
LK 9:7-9
Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening,
and he was greatly perplexed because some were saying,
"John has been raised from the dead";
others were saying, "Elijah has appeared";
still others, "One of the ancient
prophets has arisen."
But Herod said, "John I beheaded.
Who then is this about whom I hear such things?"
And he kept trying to see him.
USCCB Lectionary
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Luke 9: 7-9 (Herod's paranoia)
If modern psychology has taught us anything, it is that we cannot escape the problems of life by burying our feelings. King Herod
illustrates this truth. Guilt-ridden because he ordered the execution of John the Baptist, he begins to believe that John has risen in the person of Jesus.
* Are there crises and tragedies in your past with which you have not yet finished dealing? If so, are you willing to seek help to work your way through
them?
* When was the last time you became angry at someone? How did you resolve the conflict? What did you do with your feelings of anger? (If you did nothing with them, know that conflicts with this person will probably return.)
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God and I: Exploring the Connections between God, Self and Ego, by Philip St. Romain, 2016 (2nd ed.) ____________ Chapter 5: The Journey to Egoic Authenticity
- Being Attentive
False self conditioning distorts Egoic attentiveness so that only a narrow range of reality is experienced. Some feelings like
tenderness, for example, are considered unacceptable for men to experience and demonstrate; likewise, women are sometimes judged if they give evidence of being angry. Reality is filtered through the Persona in such manner that we are much more tuned in to what can support or threaten our self-image, while the rest is basically tuned out. Thus do we miss out on so much of life!
Being
attentive means widening the lens through which we open ourselves to the world within and outside of us. It is about living more fully in the present moment, noticing what we feel, what we think about things, what others look like, what the air feels like, and so forth. We might need to coach ourselves to do this, reminding ourselves to pause, to smell, to notice feelings and even what we might call strange ideas and hunches that seem to come from nowhere. In doing so, we are intensifying
the level of awareness that is immanent in the Ego, and thus becoming more attuned to the interface between reflecting and non-reflecting awareness.
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