{"id":49007,"date":"2023-05-25T03:51:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T07:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=49007"},"modified":"2023-05-26T18:47:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T22:47:25","slug":"day-12-my-image-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/day-12-my-image-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 12: My Image of God","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/God-the-Father-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49010\" width=\"590\" height=\"787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/God-the-Father-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/God-the-Father-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/God-the-Father.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>IN<\/strong> Day 3, we talked about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/day-3-gods-image-of-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">God&#8217;s image of us<\/a>, but what about our image of God? Since the Fall of Adam and Eve, our image of the Father has become distorted. We view Him through the lens of our fallen natures and human relationships&#8230; and that too needs to be healed.<!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s begin <em>In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Come Holy Spirit, and pierce through my judgments of You, of my God. Grant me new eyes with which to behold the truth of my Creator. Grant me new ears to hear His tender voice. Grant me a heart of flesh in place of a heart of stone that has so often built a wall between me and the Father. Come Holy Spirit: burn away my fear of God; wipe away my tears of feeling abandoned; and help me to trust that my Father is always present and never far. I pray through Jesus Christ my Lord, amen. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s continue our prayer, inviting the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Come Holy Spirit\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/122402755?h=4c2f050ede&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Come Holy Spirit<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Come Holy Spirit, come Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Come Holy Spirit, come Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/span><br><br><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Come Holy Spirit, come Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Come Holy Spirit, come Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>And burn away my fears, and wipe away my tears<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>And trusting you are here, Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/span><br><br><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Come Holy Spirit, come Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Come Holy Spirit, come Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/span><br><br><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Come Holy Spirit, come Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Come Holy Spirit, come Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>And burn away my fears, and wipe away my tears<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>And trusting you are here, Holy Spirit<br>And burn away my fears, and wipe away my tears<\/strong><\/span><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">And trusting you are here, Holy Spirit<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Come Holy Spirit\u2026<\/span><br><br><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">\u2014Mark Mallett, from&nbsp;<em>Let the Lord Know<\/em>, 2005\u00a9<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Taking Stock<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>As we come into the last days of this retreat, what would you say your image of the Heavenly Father is today? Do you see Him more as the title St. Paul gave us: &#8220;Abba&#8221;, which is Hebrew for &#8220;Daddy&#8221;&#8230; or as a distant Father, a harsh judge always hovering above your imperfections? What lingering fears or hesitations do you have about the Father, and why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a few moments in your journal to write down your thoughts of how you see God the Father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Little Testimony<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>I was born a cradle Catholic. From the youngest age, I fell in love with Jesus. I experienced the joy of loving, praising, and learning about Him. Our family life was for the most part happy and filled with laughter. Oh, we had our fights&#8230; but we also knew how to forgive. We learned how to pray together. We learned how to play together. By the time I left home, my family was my best friends, and my personal relationship with Jesus continued to grow. The world seemed like a beautiful frontier&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the summer of my 19th year, I was practicing Mass music with a friend when the phone rang. My dad asked me to come home. I asked him why but he said, &#8220;Just come home.&#8221; I drove home, and as I began my walk to the back door, I had this feeling my life was going to change. When I opened the door, my family was standing there, all of them crying. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What??&#8221; I asked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Your sister has died in a car accident.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lori was 22 years old, a respiratory nurse. She was a beautiful person who filled a room with laughter. It was May 19, 1986. Instead of the usual mild temperatures around 20 degrees, it was a freak blizzard. She passed a snowplow on the highway causing a whiteout, and crossed the lane into an oncoming truck. The nurses and doctors, her colleagues, tried to save her  \u2014 but it wasn&#8217;t to be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My only sister was gone&#8230; the picturesque world I had constructed came tumbling down. I was confused and shocked. I grew up watching my parents give to the poor, visit seniors, help men in prison, assist pregnant women, start a youth group&#8230; and above all, love us children with an intense love. And now, God had called home their daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Rose-Grave-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Rose-Grave-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Rose-Grave-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Rose-Grave-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Rose-Grave-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Rose-Grave.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Years later, when I held my first baby girl in my arms, I often thought of my parents holding Lori. I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder how hard it would be to lose this precious little life. I sat down one day, and put those thoughts to music&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"I Love You Baby\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/830015700?h=935f3725bf&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">I Love You Baby<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Four in the morn&#8217; when my daughter was born<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">She touched something deep in me<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">I was in awe at the new life I saw and I<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Stood there and I cried<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Ya, she touched somethin&#8217; inside<\/span><\/strong><br><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">I love you baby, I love you baby<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">You are my flesh and my own<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">I love you baby, I love you baby<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">As far as you will go, I&#8217;ll love you so<\/span><\/strong><br><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Funny how time can leave you behind,<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Always on the go<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">She turned eighteen, now she is rarely seen<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">In our quiet little home<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Sometimes I feel so alone<\/span><\/strong><br><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">I love you baby, I love you baby<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">You are my flesh and my own<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">I love you baby, I love you baby<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">As far as you will go, I&#8217;ll love you so<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Sometimes in summer, the leaf falls too soon<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Long before it&#8217;s fully bloomed<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">So every day now, I bow and I pray:<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">&#8220;Lord, hold my little girl today,<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">When you see her, tell her daddy says:&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><br><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">&#8220;I love you baby, I love you baby<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">You are my flesh and my own<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">I love you baby, I love you baby<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">I pray you&#8217;ll always know,<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">May the Good Lord tell you so<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">I love you baby&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">\u2014Mark Mallett, from&nbsp;<em>Vulnerable,&nbsp;<\/em>2013\u00a9<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">God is God \u2014 I am Not<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>When I turned 35, my dear friend and mentor, my mom, passed away from cancer. I was left once again realizing that God is God, and I am not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">How unsearchable are His judgments and how inscrutable His ways! &#8220;For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been His counselor? Or who has given a gift to Him <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">that He might be repaid?&#8221; (Rom 11:33-35)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, does God owe us anything? It was not He who initiated suffering in our world. He gifted mankind with immortality in a beautiful world, and a nature that could love and know Him, and all the gifts that came with that. Through our rebellion, death entered the world and a bottomless chasm between us and the divine that only God Himself could, and did fill. Is it not we who have a debt of love and gratitude to pay? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not the Father but our free will that we should be afraid of! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">What should the living complain about? about their sins! Let us search and examine our ways, and return to the LORD! (Lam 3:39-40)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus&#8217;s death and resurrection did not take away suffering and death but gave it <em>purpose.<\/em> Now, suffering can refine us and death becomes a doorway to eternity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Illness becomes a way to conversion&#8230;<\/strong><\/span> (<em>Catechism of the Catholic Church, <\/em>n. 1502)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>John&#8217;s Gospel says that &#8220;God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_49007_1('footnote_plugin_reference_49007_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_49007_1('footnote_plugin_reference_49007_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_49007_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_49007_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">John 3:16<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_49007_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_49007_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> It does not say that whoever believes in Him will have a perfect life. Or a carefree life. Or a prosperous life. It promises eternal life. Suffering, decay, sorrow&#8230; these now become the fodder by which God matures, strengthens, and ultimately purifies us for eternal glory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">We know that all things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to His purpose. (Romans 8:28)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">He does not willingly afflict or bring grief to human beings. (Lam 3:33)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In truth, I had treated the Lord like a vending machine: if one just behaves, does the right things, goes to Mass, prays&#8230; all will go well. But if that were true, then wouldn&#8217;t I be God and He would be the one doing <em>my<\/em> bidding?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My image of the Father needed to be healed. It started with realizing that God loves everyone, not just the &#8220;good Christians.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">&#8230;He makes His sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. (Matt 5:45)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good comes to all, and so does suffering. But if we let Him, God is the Good Shepherd who will walk with us through the &#8220;valley of the shadow of death&#8221; (cf. Psalm 23). He doesn&#8217;t remove death, not until the end of the world \u2014 but offers to safeguard us through it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">&#8230;he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. (1 Cor 15:25-26)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the eve of my sister&#8217;s funeral, my mom sat on the edge of my bed and looked at my brother and I. \u201cBoys, we have two choices,&#8221; she quietly said. &#8220;We can blame God for this, we can say, &#8216;After all we have done, why have you treated us this way? Or,\u201d mom continued, \u201cwe can trust that&nbsp;<em>Jesus<\/em>&nbsp;is here with us now. That He\u2019s holding us and crying with us, and that He\u2019ll help us get through this.\u201d And He did. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Faithful Refuge<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>John Paul II once said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Jesus is demanding, because He wishes our genuine happiness. The Church needs saints. All are called to holiness, and holy people alone can renew humanity.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014POPE JOHN PAUL II, World Youth Day Message for 2005, Vatican City, Aug. 27th, 2004, Zenit<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Pope Benedict later added, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><b>Christ did not promise an easy life. Those who desire comforts have dialed the wrong number. Rather, he shows us the way to great things, the good, toward an authentic life.<\/b>&nbsp;\u2014POPE BENEDICT XVI, Address to German Pilgrims, April 25th, 2005<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Great things, the good, an authentic life&#8221; \u2014 this is possible in the <em>midst<\/em> of suffering, precisely because we have a loving Father to sustain us. He sends us His Son to open the Way to Heaven. He sends us the Spirit so that we may have His Life and power. And He preserves us in the Truth so that we may always be free. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when we fail? &#8220;If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_49007_1('footnote_plugin_reference_49007_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_49007_1('footnote_plugin_reference_49007_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_49007_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_49007_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">1 John 1:9<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_49007_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_49007_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> God is not the tyrant we have made Him to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">The LORD\u2019s acts of mercy are not exhausted, His compassion is not spent; they are renewed each morning \u2014 great is your faithfulness! (Lam 3:22-23)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What of sickness, loss, death, and suffering? Here is the Father&#8217;s promise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">&#8220;Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet My unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor My covenant of peace be removed,\u201d says the LORD, who has compassion on you. (Isaiah 54:10)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The promises of God in this life are not about preserving your comfort but preserving your <em>peace. <\/em>Fr. Stan Fortuna C.F.R. used to day, &#8220;We&#8217;re all going to suffer. You can either suffer with Christ or suffer without Him. I&#8217;m going to suffer with Christ.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Jesus prayed to the Father, He said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the Evil One. (John 17:15)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, &#8220;I am not asking You to remove the evils of suffering \u2014 their crosses, which are necessary for their purification. I am asking that you keep them from <em>the worst evil of all<\/em>: a satanic deception that would separate them from Me for eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the shelter the Father extends to you each moment. These are the wings He stretches forth like a mother hen, to safeguard your salvation so you may know and love your Heavenly Daddy for eternity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of hiding from God, begin to hide <em>in<\/em> Him. 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