seraphim08
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« on: December 06, 2007, 02:16:37 AM » |
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hello all! i could really use prayer for stronger faith and for constancy right now. in the last few weeks i've been having a really hard time dealing with loneliness and fear. i don't have any Orthodox friends my age. since i graduated college i've already been feeling disconnected from some of my friends. and in coming to the Orthodox faith, i'm afraid that feeling of disconnectedness will only get worse. also, as childish as it sounds, i'm afraid that i'll never find someone to spend my life with. i've wanted to get married for a long time, in it was just a little less than 5 months ago that i was dumped by my girlfriend who i was planning to marry next year. i want to have faith that God can still bring me someone and still bring me friends to have fellowship with. but it's just difficult right now. any prayers would be greatly appreciated. thanks.
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« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2007, 02:32:43 AM » |
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Lord, have mercy on your servant Serafim; comfort him in this difficult time that he's going through. I humbly pray that his lonliness be strengthened by your love, and that you will guide him towards true Christian friends. Amen.
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« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2007, 02:47:15 AM » |
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Lord, have mercy.
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As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future.
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Holy Father Patrick, thank you for your help!
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« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2007, 08:55:24 AM » |
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Lord have mercy on Your servant!
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"As the sparrow flees from a hawk, so the man seeking humility flees from an argument". St John Climacus
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« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2007, 08:57:14 AM » |
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Lord, have mercy.
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Love never fails.
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« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2007, 12:30:12 AM » |
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Prayers...
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An old timer is a man who's had a lot of interesting experiences -- some of them true.
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« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2007, 03:11:33 PM » |
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Lord have mercy.
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"It is remarkable that what we call the world...in what professes to be true...will allow in one man no blemishes, and in another no virtue."--Charles Dickens
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« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2007, 08:49:20 PM » |
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Lord have mercy on Your servant and grant him that perfect Love which drives out all fear.
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If you're living a happy life as a Christian, you're doing something wrong.
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« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2007, 09:15:11 PM » |
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hello all! i could really use prayer for stronger faith and for constancy right now. in the last few weeks i've been having a really hard time dealing with loneliness and fear. i don't have any Orthodox friends my age. since i graduated college i've already been feeling disconnected from some of my friends. and in coming to the Orthodox faith, i'm afraid that feeling of disconnectedness will only get worse. also, as childish as it sounds, i'm afraid that i'll never find someone to spend my life with. i've wanted to get married for a long time, in it was just a little less than 5 months ago that i was dumped by my girlfriend who i was planning to marry next year. i want to have faith that God can still bring me someone and still bring me friends to have fellowship with. but it's just difficult right now. any prayers would be greatly appreciated. thanks.
Wow, Seraphim, I've recently gone through a lot of the same things you are going through. You will be in my prayers, brother. |
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« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2007, 11:57:04 PM » |
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Lord have mercy on Seraphim.
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I believe in One God, maker of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible.
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Theodosius Dobzhansky, Russian Orthodox Christian (1900-1975)
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« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2007, 12:53:24 AM » |
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Prayers.
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Religion is a disease, and Orthodoxy is its cure.
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O sweet Jesus, cleanse my soul.
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« Reply #11 on: December 08, 2007, 12:59:06 AM » |
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Lord have mercy on your servant.
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« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2007, 07:13:10 AM » |
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Grant this, O Lord.
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Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything so that he may do it no more.
A hasty quarrel kindles fire,
and urgent strife sheds blood.
If you blow on a spark, it will glow;
if you spit on it, it will be put out;
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« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2007, 08:09:25 AM » |
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Lord have Mercy! U know, love just pops out of the blue when you least expect it..  You are in my prayers... Pinaagi ni Kristo atng Ginoo... |
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""Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.""
— Iroh- Avatar:The Last Airbender
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« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2007, 09:08:24 AM » |
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Some of the feelings you describe I have been having at times. May the Lord and the intercessions of the Saints be with you.
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"Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!" (Priestmonk Christodoulos Aggeloglou, Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain Mount Athos, Greece, 1998,pp. 29-30, 48)
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