Friday, June 18, 2010

Hope. Faith. Love

What is your personal relationship to Jesus look like? Yes, what does it look like? What do you support? What do you tolerate? How does that relationship translate into your life? Do you live a life of hope, faith and love? Do we really have faith in the Gospel as so much to live it fruitfully? Are we hopeful when times are tough, when no substantial answer is in sight? Alot of questions for one paragraph!

I know it has been awhile since my last post, but I feel the need to say something about having faith and hope in our lives and truely living a life of these. In my struggles I find myself having to dig deep, find hope and have faith that by cooperating with God's graces and taking advantage of the Sacraments i can be delivered from sin. The devil feasts on our lack of will, lack of hope and faith in Our Lord. If we remain strong here, we can forge a solid relationship with Christ through sufferring. Man, it seems hard alot of the time, like starting over after a good confession feels so amazing, but the direct contrast of feeling empty and low right before. Both are extreme feelings that inspire hope and faith. But how can we install hope and faith to perservere throught the challenges in life? How can allow those two values to culivate a spirit of love within ourselves in the darkest moments?