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Faith, Do I Believe? Part II Lourdes Pinto Isaiah 7:2-4 When the house of David was told, "Syria is in league with Ephraim," his heart and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind. And the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go forth to meet Ahaz… and say to him, `Take heed, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint. I. TAKE HEED – To be attentive to our hearts and to God – During the storms of our lives we are also shaken, and our emotions can be so intense that we too become confused, scared, and react in those intense emotions. 1. We need to be attentive to what is happening in our hearts, so we need to BE QUIET – PRAY, and ask the Holy Spirit & Mary to enter our hearts with us. – Simple Pathpp.106-107, Being attentive and going deeper by asking, “Why?” – What is the piercing I am feeling? – What is the pain? Name it. – Why am I feeling such intense sorrow? We need to begin to dissect the pure pain from the emotions of resentment, anger, revenge, hatred, disappointment, frustration & discouragement by asking the questions in prayer and journaling the answers. This process will begin to quiet our hearts so that we can become attentive to the movements of the Holy Spirit guiding us through this process. – What negative emotions am I feeling? Be transparent with God. – Why do I feel so much resentment, anger…? – How have I reacted? What did I say? How did I gaze?   Simple Path, #105, p.292 By being attentive to how you use your hands or fail to use your hands, how you gaze at others, and how the words flow from your lips, you will come to know the sin that remains in your hearts. My Mother is forming each of you to be My living chalices.   2. Give the negative emotions to Christ and REMAIN in the PURE PAIN. If I reacted in anger, REPENT. First, to the person I hurt and then in confession.   3.   Suffer the pure pain WITH Christ, NOT ALONE! See our sorrow in Him. Jesus cries in the Eucharist with us and for us. - Allow the Holy Spirit to be our Spiritual Director through The Simple Path. - Simple Path, 3-A-4, Tears, p. 124-129 - Simple Path, #34, p.104 Be attentive to each person you encounter in your life. I live in them. I suffer for them and with them. This is My Body (Mt 35:31-41). My little one, have the docility of heart to receive the brokenness of all people into your heart as ONE with Me. This is participation in the love of the Trinity: to receive the wounds of your brothers and sisters and to give the sacrifice of your life, as ONE with Me, for their salvation and sanctification. This is Love. Simple Path, p.117, Fruit of Healing One of the fruits of healing the core wound is that you find your heart freer. You can feel emotions that you had only read or heard about, and feel to a more profound depth the emotions you already knew. Another fruit of healing is that we come in touch with our interior life, with our hearts. We come to know ourselves and to be attentive to what is taking place within us. We no longer live disconnected from ourselves and others. When we lived in our wound we were unhappy, afraid, depressed, in bad moods, we lived according to our emotions but were not aware of what was taking place within us. A healed person is “tuned in.” This sensitivity becomes the means to live as victim souls receiving the wounds of others and participating with Christ in their redemption. 4. During the storm our hearts can feel wounded as if pierced, and at that moment when we are feeling wounded, hurt, vulnerable, scared, confused, angry, frustrated, discouraged, or resentful when we’ve been “shaken” like the Israelites, the blessing of the grace...