Chatting about: Discerning God’s Will

Ruth (Guest): Hi. I just got home –– mainly for chat and computer research; will probably spend the night and at least part of tomorrow. My stuff is still at DeChantal. I have to take care of a few things in the main house before I can settle in for the chat. And I have not yet (?) done any prep. Talk with you soon. Haven’t been in my main house yet.

Ruth (Guest): I’m feeling pretty good, thanks be to God.

Ruth (Guest): OK. I’m back. Will read what I can of what is written above.

Ruth (Guest): How often I’

Ruth (Guest): ve thought; something like: How different everything would be if I had not stayed to ask that question or if I’d have been a little slower or a little faster hear or there . . . I think though, that in offering my day all that I do and say, all that I experience, every joy and suffering each morning, that gives a kind of freedom and a sense that even when things seem to go very badly I can, I must trust that God is with me and he can make good come out of this, for myself and maybe for others.

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Ruth (Guest): The extra question at a World Trade Center medical conference caused me to miss my train to a friend’s house in NJ. That train was derailed. My friends thought I was on it and back then there was no way I could notify them until I found a pay phone and could call them.

Ruth (Guest): A few seconds later I would not have hit the moose that crushed my Subaru with me in it.

Ruth (Guest): A little slower moving about the home of a quadriplegic man I was helping might have given him time to warn me that the painting he suggested I look at on the other side of the room divider was on a wall over an open, unprotected, staircase to his cellar.

Ruth (Guest): changed. . . “

Ruth (Guest): It certainly does work miricales of grace.

Ruth (Guest): Very probably, Carol Ann. And even if he is not, God can change him.

Ruth (Guest): But I think it is fine, to delete his inappropriate speech, and to attempt to keep him from being disruptive. It’s like just not listening, continuing your discussion and prayers. I loved working with those young adults, and I had a good, co-leader of our group, also a medical student.

Ruth (Guest): Good observations, Carol Ann. I agree, Sister Susan Marie.

Ruth (Guest): Sorry I was distracted. Phone calls x 3 on cell came through. Land line out for the moment. I was responding in chat, but now “thread” way back, so deleted.

Ruth (Guest): Judy, prayerful good wishes. You have a lot to cope with. Seems we all do.

Ruth (Guest): Carol Ann for the past nine days I’ve had only a radio to get news and not much time with that. I’m so sorry about the California fires. Natural causes AND Divine “permissive will” I’d say are the main contributors.

Ruth (Guest): Yes. Blessings on all. Interesting what you write, Carol Ann, about the natural history of the situation.

Ruth (Guest): Don’t worry Tito, we know your name; we’ll be praying for you. You did not find this chat room by accident. God know’s your name, too. In fact, he may have a wonderful new name for you. One that only He and you know.

Ruth (Guest): There’s a passage in the Bible, book of Revelation, that tells about a little white stone with a new name on it. Try “trolling” that. I have to go now and respond to some friend’s calls.