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I am a little bit uncomfortable to tell to much about what bothers me, but it has something to do with habitual sins and it is the ghosts in my closet from my old. Have let my priest know that i need to talk to him about this and getting some advices-help-hope.
Trying to pray every day morning and eve, read the scriptures, praying the Jesus prayer and live as fully as possible. But sometimes i hit the ground so hard and one feel so guilty, shameful and sometimes even in despair.
So please pray for me. I admit my problem and know i got a battle ahead of me, a daily one.
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The meaning of life is to acquire the grace of the Holy Spirit.
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« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2012, 08:04:11 PM » |
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Do not try to be perfect. You are not perfect. You are not going to be perfect. Christ did not die on the cross for perfect people. You will fall. Over and over and over again. It is what you do after you fall that matters. But perfection is not going to happen. Do not even start beating yourself up in this. It is not what you do so much as what you are trying to do.
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« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2012, 08:05:25 PM » |
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Lord have mercy.
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« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2012, 08:47:38 PM » |
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I am a little bit uncomfortable to tell to much about what bothers me, but it has something to do with habitual sins and it is the ghosts in my closet from my old. Have let my priest know that i need to talk to him about this and getting some advices-help-hope.
Trying to pray every day morning and eve, read the scriptures, praying the Jesus prayer and live as fully as possible. But sometimes i hit the ground so hard and one feel so guilty, shameful and sometimes even in despair.
So please pray for me. I admit my problem and know i got a battle ahead of me, a daily one.
I struggle with this also. Definitely talk to your priest and obey him in what he advises you to do. That has been helping me. |
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« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2012, 09:41:16 PM » |
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Lord, have mercy on Tommelomsky.
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« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2012, 11:06:35 PM » |
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Lord have mercy!
May the lord be with you as you vest in his armor, and pluck out the sins that take you from him.
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« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2012, 11:11:04 PM » |
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Lord have mercy.
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Prov. 3: 5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.
Psalm 37:23 The Lord guides a man safely in the way he should go.
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« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2012, 11:18:30 PM » |
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prayers ongoing... hang in there!
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« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2012, 08:11:22 AM » |
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Lord have mercy!! Lord have mercy!! Lord have mercy!!
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« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2012, 10:16:44 PM » |
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Thank you all for the prayers. My priest is rather busy but have e-mailed him and hope he can book some time for me, for a conversation in some future from today on.
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The meaning of life is to acquire the grace of the Holy Spirit.
Saint Seraphim of Sarov
Thomas said to him: “My Lord and my God!” (John 20:28)
+ Glory be to God for all things! +
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« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2012, 08:14:45 AM » |
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Update: despite being ill, my priest contacted me today and will offer help. Glory to God (and His servant) in all things.
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The meaning of life is to acquire the grace of the Holy Spirit.
Saint Seraphim of Sarov
Thomas said to him: “My Lord and my God!” (John 20:28)
+ Glory be to God for all things! +
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« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2012, 09:48:35 AM » |
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Update: despite being ill, my priest contacted me today and will offer help. Glory to God (and His servant) in all things.
God guide you and have mercy! |
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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;
and both come out of your mouth
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« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2012, 12:04:26 PM » |
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Lord, have mercy.
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« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2012, 12:38:42 PM » |
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Lord have mercy.
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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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