“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.” – Matthew 7:7-8
Asking for help doesn’t mean I am less capable or valuable or beautiful. It doesn’t mean that I don’t have anything to offer to the world. Asking for help is just being human and being truthful about our human limitations. Let us learn to ask for help when we really need it. Let us give the people who love us a chance to be there for us and to make us feel how much we are really loved.
“It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to put ourselves on the same plane as God – acting as if we had no needs, as if we were not creatures, not dependent on Him and dependent, by His will, on material things, too.” – Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain
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When You’re Giving More Than You’re Receiving
Being a Generous Receiver
Why Can’t We Receive Our Blessings?
The thing about hope is that it’s a positive force that shines the most when it’s dark. When everything’s going well, we hardly notice it’s there. But when things go against us, when our dreams fade and when we see no immediate reprieve from our troubles, that’s when hope does its best work for us.
"Where Hope Can Be Found"