Falling In Love With God

[littleflower~]

This is a great thread......

When I first got to know God, and started reading spiritual books, going to church, etc, - I felt so much love for Him and thought of Him all the time... it really does feel like being in love! Right now, I'm going through a sort of a trial where I don't feel anything and have to just choose Him, in faith...... but the experiences I had made me realize how much I want to be with Jesus and who He is in my life. i think I would have left Him so many more times if He hadn't shown me His love. I'm so weak that maybe i would have left Him permanently. God is very good to us

After all this though, I find it difficult to think of being in a relationship with a man..... it's like Christ captures your heart and no one else can be first in your life. I usually never talk about this with anyone but I can see there are people here who probably feel similarly.

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I went to church on Saturday night feeling tremendous temptations to quit going. During the homily though the priest was talking about faith and he said "you must guard your faith" and this really struck me. Shortly after that the statue of St. Joseph holding the child Jesus caught my eye which looks something like this
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I realized how can I be mad at a child, how can I stay away from the most adorable toddler? it was also like Joseph was saying take Him. For the rest of the Mass my focus was on Jesus but the child Jesus. So for anyone struggling to understand the love of God, the love of Christ, or to not lose faith look at Joseph and Jesus and try to accept the love of the Christ child.