We are not alone!

This is a note for those who have always been different.  For those who have had deep spiritual experiences and feel alone with no one to share them with.  One can be in a great church, a good family, and still experience things others don't and not have confidence to share them because others just 'won't get it'.  This happens in families, religious communities, friendship circles, etc.

In the Catholic/Orthodox tradition, the lives of the Saints are always encouraged to be read for good reason.  You see,  these were ordinary people like you and i who experienced extraordinary things in their lives and in their walk with God.  You see even if we find ourselves alone among living men, we are NEVER alone.  God is always with us.  The Angels and Saints march in prayer with us.  And reading the life of a Saint that reasonates with our spirituality let's us know we are NOT alone and NOT the only one with these experiences and struggles.

i love to read a Saint of old that confirms my journey, encourages me on that God is active in my life, and get ideas on how to go on.  They pioneered the road first and continue to pray for us.  For those who do not understand why Catholics/Othodox believers ask for the intercession of the Saints and Angels, i think this article may clarify it a bit:

https://www.catholic.com/tract/the-intercession-of-the-saints

Don't force yourself to read books because people tell you to.  Pray and ask God to lead you to the books you need at this time.  When you pick it up and start, if it does not reasonate or animate you with a new Fire of Joy and Excitement, give it away until the right one comes.  Never, Never force yourself to read something.  There is a prescription that is personal for you and you alone.  A formula God has for your spiritual development and you do not have to rush it, force it, or make it just like someone else's.  God does not recycle when it comes to our journeys.  Each and everyone is individual and personalized just for us.

So open your eyes and ears....listen for God in your heart....and look for the next book on a Saint that walked before you that will nurture you and feed you deeply and help you go to the next level.

til next time....listen to the Litany of the Saints....a great prayer of old calling on God for His Mercy and Blessing and asking the intercession of the Saints that walk in Glory.....Our Heavenly Family that continue to pray for us as we journey toward Home.....It is one of the oldest prayers in the Catholic/Orthodox faiths   It was used in the "Litania Septiformis" of St. Gregory the Great, and in the procession of St. Mamertus. In the Eastern Church, litanies with the invocation of saints were employed in the days of St. Basil (d. 379) and of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus (d. about 270).  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmmeTFYFOMY