http://whatgodwantsforyourlife.com/wordpress/?p=651 Finding Answers to the Deepest Questions Thu, 29 May 2014 16:05:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 http://whatgodwantsforyourlife.com/wordpress/?p=651&cpage=1#comment-668 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:14:04 +0000 http://whatgodwantsforyourlife.com/wordpress/?p=651#comment-668 Actually, I don’t think that my director is using the image in a superficial way at all — but in a deeply provocative way meant to challenge. People who refuse to acknowledge their needs fail to acknowledge their creatureliness. There can be a great deal of false humility in apparent self-denial.

]]> http://whatgodwantsforyourlife.com/wordpress/?p=651&cpage=1#comment-667 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:43:13 +0000 http://whatgodwantsforyourlife.com/wordpress/?p=651#comment-667 This is a very good analysis. Thank you, Father. I wonder though why your spiritual director uses the word “cross.” I have a problem with using “cross” in superficial ways and in fact in ways that have nothing to do with the “cross.”
I understand that the cross is the symbol of sacrifice, but it is such a powerful and universally efficacious symbol of Christ and his work. I hear people constantly referring to their problems and how they are at the foot of the cross or carrying their crosses and think to myself,” Really?”

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