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From: "vanderkok [via Pixelpipe]" <postmaster-noreply@pixelpipe.com>
Date: Mar 17, 2011 8:26 PM
Subject: 3/17/11 GOD DOESN'T SEND US TO HELL or PURGATORY, WE SEND OURSELVES
To: <vanderkok@gmail.com>3/17/11 cblog GOD DOESN'T SEND US TO HELL or PURGATORY, WE SEND OURSELVES ; omgc st. Pat day, m: "...imagery our lord uses..different levels..picture yourself in a desert, more than this semi desert..around Jerusalem..snakes there..venomous..who would give a serpent if asked for fish.esp own son..who hands stone if wants bread..see this combo in bible esp in desert..stoning in punishment...slow painful..secnd to crucifixion in terms of shame..who would do harm to son when asks for something nominal...heavenly father will give good things to those who ask..cath theol..god does not send us to hell or purgatory..we do it..our decision...father is always doing good to us..for us to recognze..overcome evil tendencies inus ..
Est C:12, 14-16, 23-25 "Queen Esther, seized with mortal anguish had recourse to the LORD. She lay prostrate upon the ground, together with her handmaids, from morning until evening, and said:“God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, blessed are you. Help me, who am alone and have no help but you, for I am taking my life in my hand. As a child I used to hear from the books of my forefathers that you, O LORD, always free those who are pleasing to you. Now help me, who am alone and have no one but you, O LORD, my God.“And now, come to help me, an orphan Put in my mouth persuasive words in the presence of the lion and turn his heart to hatred for our enemy so that he and those who are in league with him may perish. Save us from the hand of our enemies; turn our mourning into gladness and our sorrows into wholeness.”
e. The LORD will complete what he has done for me; your kindness, O LORD, endures forever; forsake not the work of your hands. R. Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me. J
Matt 7.7-12
"Jesus said to his disciples“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Which one of you would hand his son a stone when he asked for a loaf of bread or a snake when he asked for a fish? If you then, who are wicked know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him.“Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. This is the law and the prophets."
