{"id":18567,"date":"2017-06-22T01:01:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T06:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=18567"},"modified":"2017-05-18T06:16:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T11:16:21","slug":"lets-put-our-suffering-in-the-hands-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2017\/06\/22\/lets-put-our-suffering-in-the-hands-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Let's Put Our Suffering in the Hands of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Acampamento RVJ 2015 - M\u00f3dulo Radical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cancaonova\/16045405620\/in\/album-72157649783227438\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/8\/7560\/16045405620_87cca14266_z.jpg\" alt=\"Acampamento RVJ 2015 - M\u00f3dulo Radical\" width=\"320\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><span lang=\"en\">We are passing through this world, and our path is similar to that of Jesus: the way of the cross, because the disciple is not greater than the Master. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">But we need to be alert to a reality: many of our sufferings are fruits of misuse of our freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">We do everything that we want, but we don&#8217;t think of the consequences that our attitude will bring to us. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">God gives us the freedom of choice, because He loves us; <\/span><span lang=\"en\">So allows us freedom.\u00a0We are\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en\">the lord of\u00a0our own freedom, but we don&#8217;t always know how to make right choices, because we are\u00a0\u00a0limited.<\/span><span lang=\"en\">That&#8217;s where we need to be aware that alone we cannot lead our lives. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">We put our lives in the hands of God. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Let Him point us which way we should go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">With God, we don&#8217;t run the risk losing ourselves amidst the disappointment and adversity of our day, entering the abyss of indifference and disbelief. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">We pray with the psalmist: &#8220;<em>do not remember our sins of the past, but hurry about us with your kindness, for we are humiliated in extreme&#8221; (Psalm 79).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Jesus, I trust in you!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"en\">Lucia Santiago<\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"en\">Co-founder of the community\u00a0Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/luziasantiago.cancaonova.com\/mensagem\/por-que-estou-sofrendo\/\">Portuguese version<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are passing through this world, and our path is similar to that of Jesus: the way of the cross, because the disciple is not greater than the Master. But we need to be alert to a reality: many of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10351],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18568,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18567\/revisions\/18568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}