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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just talk to God.  Like a friend - every day.  After a few weeks you may have some answers and peace come to you…that’s your answer.[/quote]

I spoke to god every day of my life for 50 years and never  found peace or answers.    That was my answer...I don't believe there was anyone listening and I'm sorry I wasted all that time.

People that "think" they are "talking to god" or that he is talking to them, are just convincing themselves of something that they WANT to be true.   [/quote]

[b]I didn't have to convince myself. God reached out to me and I had nothing to do with it[/b].[/quote]

Hmmm. I wonder why God "reache[s] out" to some people and not others?  Seems very arbitrary. Like in the OT, reaching out to one particular family in the desert of Iraq.  Well, God moves in mysterious ways that's for sure.[/quote]

No one can understand God's ways, that's for sure.  And how could we, when we are talking about God?  It is like expecting 2 dimensional creatures to understand the ways of the 3D world, or those who see in black and white what it's like to see in colors, except all that times a million.  If you expect to understand exactly how God works before believing, you are misguided because no one will ever accomplish that in this life.  Our brains are incapable of it, and I would be suspicious of any religion that claims otherwise.

We are not all destined to be the same or to have the same relationship with God.  Here are the words of St. Therese of Lisieux (little flower):

Jesus has been gracious enough to teach me a lesson about the mystery of the differences in souls, simply by holding up to my eyes, the book of nature. I understood how all the flowers God created are beautiful- how the splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not take away from the perfume of the violet or the simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty, and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflower.

And so it is in the world of souls… Jesus’ garden. He willed to create great souls comparable to lilies and roses, but he created small ones as well… and these must be content to be daisies or violets destined to give joy to God’s glances, when he looks down at His feet. Perfection consists in doing God’s will… in being what He would have us be.

JUST AS THE sun shines simultaneously on the tall cedars and on each little flower as though it were alone on the earth, so Our Lord is occupied particularly with each soul as though there were no others like it. And just as in nature all the seasons are arranged in such a way as to make the humblest daisy bloom on a set day, in the same way, everything works out for the good of each soul.[/quote]

She lived less than 25 years in total and lived at home and then at a convent. She didn't really venture out into the world.[/quote]

And she managed to become one of the most popular saints of all time.  So your point is?... that people need to do great things and experience lots of worldly glory in order to be great and have anything to offer?  In fact, that is exactly what Christianity argues against.  That God loves every human with an everlasting love, regardless of human accomplishments and circumstances, and that anyone can do things in their capacity to please and honor God. [/quote]

I think a lot of Catholic saints are weird not in a good way. They have some mental issue often and the church venerates these people who are basically against life or who are very sick. A lot of the women are people who are very young and frail and basically submissive in every way. St Catherine of Siena is another one. She was anorexic and didn’t eat. I just think a lot of these people the Catholic Church thinks are so holy are actually people with various major health issues. [/quote]
Not a healthy person mentally or physically
https://www.independent.ie/life/health-wellbeing/fitness/therese-of-lisieux-a-real-saint-or-a-suitable-case-for-treatment-26523648.html[/quote]

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