Wednesday, November 19, 2014

When It's Hard to Find the Strength to Go to Him


I was thinking about the sisters.












Your tears matter to God.


"And Jesus wept."





I'm praying for you.




    1. Hi Anonymous! Thanks for your comment! Please don't ever feel like you can't leave a name with a difficult comment-- I certainly wouldn't judge you for your thoughts! You are always welcome to share here. :)

      I agree that any type of sexual/physical/mental abuse is horrifying and tragic. Having worked with victims myself at a crisis pregnancy center, it breaks my heart. However, we find this abuse across the board-- within the church and without, from leaders and those in authority as well as those without education or career. Abuse is not isolated within the Catholic Church. It's a symptom of a greater disease-- the rejection of morality and the sexual confusion within our country and world. The media will certainly always focus on abusers within the Catholic Church-- or any church for that matter (it happens with nonCatholic pastors too)-- because of the secular slant of the media, always up for slandering or drawing people away from Jesus. Don't believe everything you hear. The Catholic Church actually takes such occurrences very seriously and takes action.

      Instead of being drawn into condemning a specific denomination or religion, let's pray for those so confused by their sexuality or so weak in the face of evil temptation, and realize that they come from all sorts of walks of life. Bottom line-- anyone abusing another human is sinning against God. But we cannot assume that the Catholic Church is sinful because it contains sinners.

      Peace to you, friend!

  2. Thank you Laura, this is beautiful.. God is good all the times, :)