tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post7429514105521593375..comments2024-02-26T09:30:54.111-06:00Comments on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: The Wrong QuestionsFr. Philip Powell, OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-215583369413521352010-08-23T12:52:12.660-05:002010-08-23T12:52:12.660-05:00I know God loves me, but obviously my sins have go...I know God loves me, but obviously my sins have gotten me where I am. I have always believed that if I didn't sin, good things will come. You disagreed with me. That was part of the conversation we had. I have always felt that my calling was for marriage... it was then that you said, "You are alone because nobody loves you." I thought I found someone that did love me at last.... and I was wrong. I think it has to do with my sins... because although I consider myself a good person, I wasn't good enough. Father Robison always said that God would never give you a vocation and then deny you the ability to achieve it..... but that is what has happened, I am alone because nobody loves me.... nobody loves me because I'm a sinner.... I'm not good enough. It doesn't matter that I help people as a counselor, that I teach student at a college, that I don't cheat people, etc.... "I'm alone because nobody loves me". I was wrong in my vocation like I have been in so many other things...Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15062749305385997617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-3095993345000868812010-08-23T03:43:21.401-05:002010-08-23T03:43:21.401-05:00Rebecca, I would appreciate knowing a little more ...Rebecca, I would appreciate knowing a little more about the context of my comment to you...it doesn't sound like something I would say.<br /><br />God loves b/c Love is Who God Is. . .love is what He does. We experience His love most intensely in the love we have for others. Read 1 John for the best explanation of this.Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-41230032171854885992010-08-22T11:56:06.155-05:002010-08-22T11:56:06.155-05:00Father Phillip, you told me a few years ago when y...Father Phillip, you told me a few years ago when you were still in Dallas: "You are alone because nobody loves you". I never forgot that.... I still cry over it and although I found a man I thought loved me, cared for me, I found out I was wrong. I helped him in his time of need. Now he no does not need me, but because he loved me I didn't care.... I was wrong...Today your words ring in my hear and open the the raw wound "You are alone because nobody loves you". Does this apply to God and I just don't see it like I didn't see it with this good man before either?Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15062749305385997617noreply@blogger.com