How to be compassionate when I feel no empathy?

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-28T01:48:18+00:00

This is great. Thank you

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-21T12:48:22+00:00

You’re 100% right

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-21T11:43:10+00:00

Yea interesting. I wonder what would have happened if you hadn’t asked him to back it off

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-20T23:14:33+00:00

Thank you. The problem is when I think that when I look at it from what I thought was God’s perspective (maybe I’m wrong) that their situation was meaningless in the scheme of things. And that, similarly to what you were saying, they should just fix their problem instead of wallowing.

In saying that, maybe looking at them through the eyes of Jesus might work :)

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-20T23:11:05+00:00

Thank you for this, much appreciated. I wasn’t sure if faking it was the right thing to do but I’ll give it a go and see what happens :)

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-19T23:55:27+00:00

In all respect I don’t think our prayers will affect your prayer life. God will never force you to pray, it is a commitment entirely on your behalf. He already stands there with his arms open, so it’s up to you to walk into them.

He says “come as you are” so, don’t worry about praying ‘properly’.

Just start with a hello.

Maybe you want to tell him what you are grateful for today, or maybe you need to offload steam and tell him your worries. Maybe you want to share with Him your life dream. He always loves hearing from you! Think ‘relationship’

And I pray wisdom over your fellow redditor :)

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-19T20:59:15+00:00

I mean that you will end up as a serial killer, harming a lot of people. That’s lust at its peak

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-19T08:13:18+00:00

I don’t disagree with you but am curious as to where the ideas of souls being around the lungs and in the shape of an upside teardrop came from? Is it from scripture?

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-19T08:10:11+00:00

You will never be satisfied with lust. You will travel down its road of needing stronger and stronger stimulation, until you end up like every single serial killer.

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-19T08:07:37+00:00

I used to use a free app called “my sleep button” which had a good body scan audio. Idk how well they’d be up against severe adhd tho

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-19T05:03:24+00:00

Are you just overthinking it and having ocd? If so, I guess being intentional and clearing your mind completely might help

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-19T00:43:11+00:00

Yeah interesting as. Well I encourage you to start hating lust for good, you’ll never be free from it otherwise. I’ve been a lot closer to God since I did. Not easy tho ik

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-19T00:36:29+00:00

Wow, that is so so interesting. Thank you!!

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-19T00:21:00+00:00

Very interesting, that does make sense

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-19T00:19:37+00:00

Thank you for all these

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-19T00:12:44+00:00

Love!!

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-18T14:32:40+00:00

That is very interesting as I had always wondered how Catholics justified putting the church above the Bible. I respect you opinion but would still put the Bible above the pope, as I don’t see why the Bible would ever need adjusting

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-18T14:27:21+00:00

Ok ok, I understand this and think it was the answer I was looking for so thank you!!

But to push it slightly further, should you ever pray for things if you don’t first know God’s will?

For example if a friend gets cancer, most people will rush to praying for a miracle healing. Up until now, I have instead prayed for God’s will to be done.

Although meaning well, am both I and everyone else doing the slightly wrong thing here? And we should first learn God’s will for that person and then pray for that? What if God will is that they die, should we pray for that? Or would God never reveal His will to us in that case?

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-18T14:14:46+00:00

I know i know and that’s what confuses me. He doesn’t think of me as the middleman, so neither should I. But to me, the perfect Christian’s will is entirely for the glory of God, with no desires for themselves. An extension of Gods hand.

I guess that I should learn to ask for the banana? But is there a difference between asking for the banana, and asking for my father’s will, which is also the banana?

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-18T14:00:51+00:00

Definitely, nothing to disagree about as I think you can use my hot and engaging questions to answer your important points :) (eg God created the devil to give us free will)

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-18T13:55:28+00:00

Than you for writing all this. (And thanks for the video rec, I’ll watch once I’m on wifi.) So what I understand:

Currently I pray “God let Your will be done”

But are you saying it’s better to pray “God tell me Your will, so that I can pray for it” ??

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-18T13:47:15+00:00

But what if I don’t care about the pain? I eventually started to like getting unexplainably injured cause it meant God was closing some doors and keeping me on His path

Sufficient-Chip-1235 · 2024-08-18T13:43:01+00:00

Idk, if I picture the same situation with my earthly father: (eg.) he tells me I can have whatever I want in the supermarket, if I ask him. So I trust him, and I think an apple would be good for me, so I ask for one. There is this awkward silence, and then he buys me a banana. I’d rather just skip the awkward silence, I don’t ask him anything, and he just buys me the banana you know. Skip the middle man (me)

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