Certainly “Jesus, I trust in you” are not magic words. If they reflect a sincere abandonment of everything to God (and that is not easy to do), then the attitude the words reflect should lead to serenity. When I offer that prayer, I say, “Jesus, I trust in you. Please help me believe that, mean it, and live it.” With God’s help, I will.
Thank you Literalman. I like your answer. Peter
Stephen Andrew, my friend…….I know (I feel in my heart) that your a most sincere. But I must confess that it is a challenge to understand your sermons. I do try. What I do derive from your words is a wonderful faith, that there is great hope for all of us if we can open our hearts to God’s love. Thank you my dear friend, Peter
O.K. Dave, you are correct. I am a stubborn rascal. And a sinner. I do have emotional needs. And I do have wishful thinking. My wish is to feel God’s presence in my heart as I go through the activities of daily life……….but I find myself to be easily forgetful and distracted. At the same time, I pray to God every morning, because without this little sense of connection I find my life to be empty.
You say that a tattoo on a woman is a mortal sin? What gives you the right to judge anyone for a tattoo? It’s very personal and I have several tattoos myself. I had many years of emotional abuse. That I transfer the emotional pain to a physical pain. I can honestly say that getting a tattoo is a release for me. I feel no pain at all. It’s my body and my business. Not everyone and their opinions matter, judge your own decisions before you make a judgement on a complete stranger.
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I don’t have tats for the simple fact that the ink used actually constricts your aura. But, honestly, if a person wants to wear a tattoo, it’s really none of my business.
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Have you ever seen the Robin William’s movie, “The Final Cut” (2004)? Babies are given a chip under the skin that records all of a person memories and at the end of their life a “cutter” removes all the bad things a person has done and highlights the good things, creating a film that loved ones can come watch in a theatre for memorial.
An underground movement arises of individuals who get these tattoos where the ink can scramble the chip so that it only records static.
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Alan Hakman (played by Robin Williams) is a cutter who has to see all the horrible things that very powerful individuals (a politician in particular) has committed in their lifetime. So, as the cutter his chip is recording every life he edits. So, he goes into the underbelly of the city to get tattooed so these images will not have to be seen by the next cutter and the cutter after that.
Fun Fact: Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus in “The Passion of The Christ,” is also in this film.
Interesting. Yeah….but there’s lots of stuff that constrict your aura. The very clothes we wear constrict it.
Oh no, we’ve already had a problem on this forum with a nudıst who got a little too comfortable. Just don’t post images of yourself and your Wife (as he did) and we’re cool. I’m not implying that you would, but it was a problem that we have had to deal with in the past.
I remember that. Ick! I stayed away from Catholic Talk for a few weeks for fear of what I would find. The nudists’ original question was interesting (something like what does the Bible or the Catholic Church say about nudity) but I think it was just an entree to slap us Christians with pictures we didn’t want to see.
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Oh no, it’s fine. I don’t plan on showing pictures of me naked lol. Just saying, most of the stuff they put out on the shelves constrict your aura. The type of clothes you need to wear are expensive to begin with, so most people don’t. There’s a certain type of fabric that’s good for your aura, but I don’t remember what it is off the top of my head. But yeah, the 7 families that have run this Earth messed with everything.
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