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At this phase of life I am facing lots of problems. I need someone who can hear me.
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At
this phase of life I am facing lots of problems. I need someone who can
hear me.
Thanks
for writing to us here at
Truthbook.com.
I
am sorry to hear that you are
facing so many troubles right now. I think that all of us go through
times where it seems that nothing is going right, and we just feel
overwhelmed with it all.
And of course, one of the
most valuable things to have in this life is someone who will be
on our side, who will be with us no matter what, who believes in us,
and most of all - someone who will LISTEN to us and actually HEAR what
we are saying. The human heart longs
for expression.
Ideally, you would be
able to find a friend or family member who you would trust with your
innermost thought and feelings; maybe that is part of your dilemma
these days; maybe you feel misunderstood. Maybe your problems are
just so severe, you have a hard time even putting them into words?
When
we are having trouble finding what we need most - when our deepest
expressions go unheard - when the company of our fellows is just not
enough - the teachings of The
Urantia Book help us to bridge the gap.
It
might comfort you to know that Jesus himself experienced the very human
feelings that you expressed in your note. He was in the middle of
terrible trouble; he had no one who really understood him, no one to
talk to; he felt
alone; he suffered, in a very human way, all of these difficulties.
I
would like to share a short story from the Life
and Teachings of Jesus; this is the scene of
Jesus in the
Garden of Gethsemane, just before his arrest:
(182:3.9)
Jesus' heart was being crushed; he truly loved his brethren. He was
isolated from his family in the flesh; one of his chosen associates was
betraying him. His father Joseph's people had rejected him and thereby
sealed their doom as a people with a special mission on earth. His soul
was tortured by baffled love and rejected mercy. It was just one of
those awful human moments when everything seems to bear down with
crushing cruelty and terrible agony.
Jesus' humanity
was not insensible to this situation of private loneliness, public
shame, and the appearance of the failure of his cause. All these
sentiments bore down on him with indescribable heaviness. In this great
sorrow his mind went back to the days of his childhood in Nazareth and
to his early work in Galilee. At the time of this great trial there
came up in his mind many of those pleasant scenes of his earthly
ministry. And it was from these old memories of Nazareth, Capernaum,
Mount Hermon, and of the sunrise and sunset on the shimmering Sea of
Galilee, that he soothed himself as he made his human heart strong and
ready...
This was how Jesus managed to rise above
one the most terrible times anyone could experience, and maybe in it,
you'll find a way to help yourself, too, in the short-term. Even the
memory of something as ordinary as a beautiful sunset was enough to
lift the spirits of the Master. Abandon your cares for a moment; look
for some beauty in your life; think on happier times for awhile.
Jesus
always practiced communion with God as a way to find all the answers to
the problems of life that he encountered; and there were many. He would
often go apart by himself and talk to God in prayer. Here is one way
for
you to begin to solve your problems in the long-term. It is what Jesus
taught:
(146:2.4)
3.
By opening the human end of the channel
of the God-man communication, mortals make immediately available the
ever-flowing stream of divine ministry to the creatures of the worlds.
When man hears God's spirit speak within the human heart, inherent in
such an experience is the fact that God simultaneously hears that man's
prayer.
You can read Jesus' entire discourse about
prayer HERE
So,
even if you lack a human source of
the "listening ear," you can still do as Jesus did, and turn to your
Father in Heaven. You can be of good cheer, for you are never alone in
this life, as you carry God within your
mind, so he is always as close
as a thought, a longing, a prayer...with continued practice, you'll
become more and more able to find him, and he will become your closest
confidante. God wants to be your all, and he will eventually supply all
that you need to overcome your problems, when you turn to him with an
open heart. He knows you better than you know yourself...
Thanks
again for writing to us. I hope that you begin feeling better very soon.
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