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Thanks Lila... you feel like to get extra strength to undergo your family struggles because of your love and commitment

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Thanks Lila... you feel like to get extra strength to undergo your family struggles because of your love and commitment

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Lilia, because of the drinking and at times the violent and abusive behavior of your husband, you feel anxious and afraid. You also seem to seek answers why a loving God will allow this in spite of all your prayers and religious activities-- Fr. David

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Lilia, because of the drinking and at times the violent and abusive behavior of your husband, you feel anxious and afraid. You also seem to seek answers why a loving God will allow this in spite of all your prayers and religious activities-- Fr. David

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Thank you so much for sharing this with me. I appreciate your sincerity and honesty as you are trying your best to be faithful to your husband. Believing that God is calling you to be faithful to this, I admire your willingness and commitment to your husband and children.

Is it ok to begin with this? Or are there other things you want to share?

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Hi Lila. Thank you so much for coming to me and sharing a glimpse of your life story. You shared earlier that you go to church and pray regularly. You also shared with me about your husband. And then, you mentioned that God wants you to remain faithful in spite of the abuses you’re getting from your husband. It seems to me, we have two important matters to consider: your relationship with God and with your husband. Where do you want us to begin your journey? Give it a thought for a moment. Just relax. And begin when you are ready.

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Hi, Lila!
you feel in pain because of the attitude of your husband, do I understand it right? You know Lila, I salute your courage and faithfulness to your vocation and to God. But I think we need to unpacked your burden one by one and maybe we can start with your problem with your husband...

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You are a devoted wife and a loving mother who regularly spend time in prayer. However, you feel bad and helpless because of your husband’s violent and abusive behavior towards you and your children whenever he is drunk. Yet, in spite of that, you feel that God wants you to remain faithful to your family. You are a courageous woman indeed.

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Hi Lilia.  thanks for the openness and trust.  

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Hi Lilia.  thanks for the openness and trust.  

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I admire your desire to become more pleasing to God and His call for you to be faithful to your husband amidst the painful situation you are having.  Because of your husband's violent and verbally abusive behavior towards you and your children, you feel frustrated.

Ronel

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Thank you Lila for sharing your life to me..

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Thank you Lila for sharing your life to me..

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Because of your husband's insecurities being alcoholic, violent, constantly abusing you and your five  loving  and beautiful children;
As  mother and wife, you feel the courage to remain prayerful, and faithful to your husband and your family, and as you continue to seek God's guidance and enlightenment.

Sr. Remia, OP

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Despite your husband's drinking problem, and his violent and abusive behaviour, you are trying your best to be a good wife to him and a good mother to your children. You feel the weight of your responsibility because you are fully aware that this is your God-given vocation.  And for this reason, you are willing to embrace the consequences no matter what. Because you are a devout Catholic, you feel you need to have a spiritual director. You want someone to guide and help you on how you could respond well to God's invitation to be faithful to your husband and your family, to be faithful to your vocation as wife and mother.

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Despite your husband's drinking problem, and his violent and abusive behaviour, you are trying your best to be a good wife to him and a good mother to your children. You feel the weight of your responsibility because you are fully aware that this is your God-given vocation.  And for this reason, you are willing to embrace the consequences no matter what. Because you are a devout Catholic, you feel you need to have a spiritual director. You want someone to guide and help you on how you could respond well to God's invitation to be faithful to your husband and your family, to be faithful to your vocation as wife and mother.

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FR. ANGEL SDB

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Thank you Lila for sharing to me your very important concern. I feel that you are in a dilemma because of the conflicting situation between your faithfulness to God and the reality of abusive action of your husband.
Fr. Hermy

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Lila, I thank you for your openness in sharing this to me. Because you want to be pleasing to the Lord and grow in your relationship with Him, you feel the need of spiritual direction. You love your children and see your life as a mother and a wife, but at this point, because of the violence of your husband, you feel burdened and unsafe. As Christian, because of your love for God and your commitment to your husband, you feel trapped, not knowing what to do. You are searching for some guidance to know God's will for you.

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Because you experience violence and verbally abused by your husband, you feel like being called to still be faithful to him. i admire you for that. and despite your closeness to God through those prayers, you still feel frustrated because of your husband who is a drunkard and abusive.
However, you feel blessed because you have a loving children.

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thank you Lila for sharing your life of faithfulness to God and your married life. i admire your life of faith in God.

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thank you Lila for sharing your life of faithfulness to God and your married life. i admire your life of faith in God.

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I see,  your life is centered around God amidst ups and downs of  your life.

1. You feel aspired to do Go'd will.
2. You Feel He is calling you.
3. You  deeply desire to be more pleasing to God.

Sr. Pratima

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You feel afraid by your husband's tendency because he can be so violently and verbally abusive to you and your children.

However, it seems that you are courageous and determined enough to be a loving mother to your five children and at the same time a prayerful believer of God.

How do you feel right now?

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I marvel and am amazed by how much you value your life as a loving mother and a wife even if your husband is not the ideal one for you.  I have the impression that you are also faithful to your relationship with God because you attend church and pray regularly.  You believe that God wants you to be faithful to your family including your husband who at times was abusive to you and even your children and now you   seek ways of how you can become more pleasing to God. I understand that you came to see me because you want somebody to walk with you in your desire    to  become more pleasing to God.  Maybe we can start from here to talk more about this?

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I admire your courage and determination of wanting to be a loving mother  to your children and at the same time  a good wife to your abusive and violent   husband.  It must have been  rather tiring, difficult and hard for you.

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I admire your courage and determination of wanting to be a loving mother  to your children and at the same time  a good wife to your abusive and violent   husband.  It must have been  rather tiring, difficult and hard for you.

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It seems to me you have good relationship with God and you believed that God still want you to be faithful in this difficult  relationship.

Sr Agatha

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Thank you, Lila, for your openness and for the trust.

You feel that you are having this longing for a spiritual companion/director -- he/she who will accompany you to become more pleasing to God and to be more responsive to His will -- because you desire to continuously become a good and loving mother to your children and a more understanding and compassionate wife to your husband.

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Thank you for trusting and hoping that I could be of help. I do realize that you feel helpless and burdened by your husband who drinks and at a times verbally abusive to both you and your children. and I can see that you might have taught of leaving him but since you are married; and you have been deeply devoted and continue to go to mass on Sundays. And amidst of this you sense that the Lord is calling you to remain faithful to your husband. That’s shows to me that this is an invitation of the Lord for you to grow more in loving and forgiving as you have been doing to your husband. How do you feel about this?

Also, I see that even though you have been praying the prayers that your mother taught you, I do not hear you saying of bringing into prayer all the experiences you are having with your husband. So, I encourage you to bring all of these into prayer before the Lord as well. And we can talk more about this in our next meeting.

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*It must be a very challenging situation for you because your husband drink and at time he is violent and verbally abusive to you and your children and you also believe that God is calling you to be remain faithful to your husband.

*  in spite of this difficult situation you are seeking a spiritual director because  you want help and yo think you could become  more pleasing to God.

* Did you tell how you feel about your situation and your plan to God?

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Thank you for sharing with me your struggles in life of being both a mother and a wife.

You are saying a while ago that in your experience of having a drunkard and a violent husband, you feel you are invited by God to be faithful and pleasing to Him?  This is because as you said that you always pray and you love your children.

Is this what you mean?

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Thank you for your sharing, I admire you very much and sympathize with your family situation. I feel your hard work and sacrifice and I also see that you are a courageous mother who is doing because you have quite a few children without complaining, because you were born in a  model society and people are afraid to have many children because of the hard work. I don't think you have a lot of time to spend for yourself, for hobbies. In spite of being so busy you do not forget your duty of a revered son to your Lord. I see you as a wife and great mother of the family. And a mother who has a deep moral foundation

You were born into a pious, exemplary Catholic family. You lived what you were taught
Your mother and you are very respectable types.
You are a person who has a deep faith in God and have an intimate relationship with Him. So you want companionship to help you better understand what God wants
You are a tolerant and an optimist person, without a single blame to God. You are still trusting, relying on and entrusting to God's providence to try to find what God wants for you, and fulfil God's word is to love and take care of your children and faithful to your husband
Unity with you in prayers.

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Thank you Lila for sharing you life history, and I'm thankful because even in times of difficulties in life you remain faithful to God's invitation to love, and I know you are seeking Spiritual director because you want to be more pleasing to God's call.
I encourage you that seeking therapist or counseling will help your husband's behaviors, so that he to can response to God's call.

Bro. Deon

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Hi Lila!
Thank you for coming. I feel with your difficult situation. Because you believe God is calling you to remain faithful to your husband but he is abusive and violent and you love your children, you are seeking a spiritual director so that you can be more pleasing to God. You must be in a bad predicament wanting to please God and remain faithful to your violent and abusive husband. Am I correct in my understanding?

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Thank you Lila for sharing your life history to me Clement. You feel you are a faithful mother and wife who loves her children in the happy family. You trust God's guidance in any situation in your life.
I feel you feel trusting in God who will make your husband a Lovely in his family's affairs. You were taught how to pray to God who answers the prayers in your early years before you married. You feel like starting anew to pray to God who answers those who trust him. Let us say a pray before we leave this place.

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Sr Maria Jiwing

Thank you Lila for sharing your life with me and thank you for your trust. I admire your courage to remain faithfull to the promise of you mariage (family life) and to remain united with your husband and children. I also admire your faithfulness in practising your faith despite the hardship you are experiencing now. I understand your desire to have a spiritual director as well. My question is have you ever tell God about your state of life?

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Hi Lila!
Thank you for coming. I feel with your difficult situation. Because you believe God is calling you to remain faithful to your husband but he is abusive and violent and you love your children, you are seeking a spiritual director so that you can be more pleasing to God. You must be in a bad predicament wanting to please God and remain faithful to your violent and abusive husband. Am I correct in my understanding?

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Thank you Lila for you have shared.  It seems to me that you would like to give up in remaining faithful to God's calling due to your husband's behavior.
I empathize with your sharing,  seeing that you desire to have a spiritual  director because you want to persevere and fulfill God's calling for you; to remain faithful as a mother and a wife.  Acknowledging of your primary role, I advise that seeking a counselor/therapist to process your husband's behavior and his alcoholic addiction.

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Dear Lila !
I thank you for your sincere sharing. I know you are in need of a Spiritual director to help you in your  challenging  life . It's good to have your spiritual direction help you. You are such a courageous person and also a wonderful wife and mother.
Do you feel that your right?
You pray to God every day as often as your mother taught you.
So what do you pray? about?
Is it about your husband ? or about your children? Is that your suffering ?
Do you pray for your husband complain to God?
How do you feel after the prayer? Does God listen to you?
Does God answer you?
Do you believe that God is really there with you?
You want to be faithful to your husband and your children.
So God  want that? what do you think?   Do you know the example of Saint Monique.
I think you have answer for yourself.

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Lila I understand that you love your family. Because your husband drinks and abuse you and your children violently and verbally, you feel disturbed and you wish to see a Spiritual Director.

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Good morning Lila. Nice to meet you. Thank you for your concern sharing and trust. It's seem and i understand you are carrying a heavy Responsibility and you have been a good Christian mother to your family. It shows your great and constant love to your children. You feel very much sad about your husband's behavior towards you and your children. you are confused and waiting for the spiritual director who can direct you to God's presence and experience in your faithful life.

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Thank you, Lila! for your trust shown to me. I understand that you have been a good christian mother to your family. It shows your constant love to your children. You feel sad about your husband's behaviour towards you and your children. You are waiting for the Spiritual director who can direct you to God's experience in your life.

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i sympathize with your sharing. this is a challenge for your life. I want to share the burden you are carrying with my sincerity and a little experience.
The first thing : you should continue as your wife and mother with love. Hope that one day your husband will change his lifestyle with your sincere love .
The second thing : you often pray to God. Pray according to Mt 11,28-30. Jesus empathizes with our human condition . Look up the cross to hear the story of his human life . i believe  you feel your  family's burden will be light.

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Good afternoon Lila, thanks for what you just shared. It seems that you’re like carrying a heavy load on your shoulders because of your husband’s behavior, and the troubles it brings in your family life. you're living this with courage and great love. Am I right in saying that you’re confused about what God wants for you?

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hello Lila, how are you? It must be  difficult in a situation as yours? I hope you are okay?

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hello Lila, how are you? It must be  difficult in a situation as yours? I hope you are okay?

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I see, you are faithful in attending mass and keeping your prayers. How has that helped you cope with the situation?

Sr Shanti

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1.you desire to have a spiritual director because you want to be more pleasing to God.
2. So, you feel being called by God to be faithful to your  family and to your husband even he drinks a lot and  he abuses you and your children verbally.
3. you desire to have a spiritual director because you want to be more pleasing to God and perhaps to guide you of your being faithful to your husband even he abuses you and your children.
4. you are craving to have a spiritual director because you want to be more pleasing to God in your role in life as a faithful mother and a faithful wife to your husband who abuses you verbally.