Great article! I truly appreciate your honesty and straightforwardness in sharing your experience. I recently completed a Silent Retreat focused on St. Ignatius' Meditations, and it deeply resonated with me that I wanted to share a powerful meditation you can do as it relates to what you are facing.
Below, I’ve included the first meditation, known as the Principle and Foundation. Read it first and see my commentary after at the end:
“God created human beings to praise, reverence, and serve God, and by doing this, to save their souls. God created all other things on the face of the earth to help fulfill this purpose.
From it follows that we are to use the things of this world only to the extent that they help us to this end, and we ought to rid ourselves of the things of this world to the extent that they get in the way of this end.
For this it is necessary to make ourselves indifferent to all created things as much as we are able, so that we do not necessarily want health rather than sickness, riches rather than poverty, honor rather than dishonor, a long rather than a short life, and so in all the rest, so that we ultimately desire and choose only what is most conducive for us to the end for which God created us.”
It reminds us that in all we do, we should aim to praise, reverence, and serve God. If our actions stray from this purpose, we must realign and rectify our intentions to avoid them becoming distorted by sin, which leads us away from God.
Also, the meditation highlights the importance of indifference. In your case, it looks like there is a ‘disordered attachment’ to being in one place or the other for the sake of its enjoyment without considering your grand purpose of praising, reverencing, and serving God.
Don’t get me wrong. Things that God created like Spain and America are good in regard to the end they were created; but not all ‘creatures’ are good in every time nor on every occasion no for every person. All disorder springs from a disorder love for creatures. We must work on taking away all disordered affections for creatures so that we can take them or leave them depending on how they help us to achieve our final end.
The root of our sins is that we deviate from our principles and foundation.
Beautiful meditation brother, thank you so much for sharing it. I completely agree with your take and you are right, it might be necessary to take a step back to reconnect with that deeper purpose: serving and praising God in everything I do and am. I appreciate you taking the time to share this, it really is helpful.
Thank you for reading the article and supporting as well Martin, you know it means a lot. God bless you my friend!
Couldn't agree more. It's become another form of escapism and distraction. It's very difficult to find your calling and follow God's plan for you if you don't know where you are going to be every couple of months.
Glad you enjoyed the article and thanks for reading Marco!
Great article! I truly appreciate your honesty and straightforwardness in sharing your experience. I recently completed a Silent Retreat focused on St. Ignatius' Meditations, and it deeply resonated with me that I wanted to share a powerful meditation you can do as it relates to what you are facing.
Below, I’ve included the first meditation, known as the Principle and Foundation. Read it first and see my commentary after at the end:
“God created human beings to praise, reverence, and serve God, and by doing this, to save their souls. God created all other things on the face of the earth to help fulfill this purpose.
From it follows that we are to use the things of this world only to the extent that they help us to this end, and we ought to rid ourselves of the things of this world to the extent that they get in the way of this end.
For this it is necessary to make ourselves indifferent to all created things as much as we are able, so that we do not necessarily want health rather than sickness, riches rather than poverty, honor rather than dishonor, a long rather than a short life, and so in all the rest, so that we ultimately desire and choose only what is most conducive for us to the end for which God created us.”
It reminds us that in all we do, we should aim to praise, reverence, and serve God. If our actions stray from this purpose, we must realign and rectify our intentions to avoid them becoming distorted by sin, which leads us away from God.
Also, the meditation highlights the importance of indifference. In your case, it looks like there is a ‘disordered attachment’ to being in one place or the other for the sake of its enjoyment without considering your grand purpose of praising, reverencing, and serving God.
Don’t get me wrong. Things that God created like Spain and America are good in regard to the end they were created; but not all ‘creatures’ are good in every time nor on every occasion no for every person. All disorder springs from a disorder love for creatures. We must work on taking away all disordered affections for creatures so that we can take them or leave them depending on how they help us to achieve our final end.
The root of our sins is that we deviate from our principles and foundation.
Beautiful meditation brother, thank you so much for sharing it. I completely agree with your take and you are right, it might be necessary to take a step back to reconnect with that deeper purpose: serving and praising God in everything I do and am. I appreciate you taking the time to share this, it really is helpful.
Thank you for reading the article and supporting as well Martin, you know it means a lot. God bless you my friend!
This is a great response! Thank you for the reflection
Home is the people around me.
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Put your hope in God. He will call you where He wants you. Your home is where your heart is. Is your heart with God?
Stay strong brother, thank you for the reading. It really made me reflect and trust in Our Lord.
Pax et bonum 💪
“Is your heart with God” is definitely the right question. Thank you, brother. God bless you and thanks for supporting and reading, means a lot 👊🏻🙏🏼
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Traveling has just become another drug for most. Changing one’s environment is not traveling, walking the road got paved for you is.
Great read.
Couldn't agree more. It's become another form of escapism and distraction. It's very difficult to find your calling and follow God's plan for you if you don't know where you are going to be every couple of months.
Glad you enjoyed the article and thanks for reading Marco!