Re: The Ouija Board: A Game or a Gamble? I'm learning the walking in love part, too often I was walking in anger and that's not taking up my cross and following Jesus. The reason I left was hearing how my non-Catholic (Protestant) friends would go to hell unless I converted them and I know now that was incorrect teaching. Back then I didn't. Back then I also knew the supernatural was real, not the God-kind but the deceiving kind. I never stopped believing, never stopped praying but I gave up on religion and thought new age etc was something to try. Even studied wicca for a short time. I've since ripped up all those books I had including the one that had different accounts of people under hypnosis recalling their existence between lives. I think that was the same book that said the Bible was only written to scare people. As way off on the wide roads that I was I knew there was something very wrong with that. I kept seeking but in all the wrong places.
Last edited by HasahZ, 6/13/2007, 1:52 pm
--- ...Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them.
Amen
Re: The Ouija Board: A Game or a Gamble? Yes, but a lot of what you describe also tends to place the power of our future in our knowing hands instead of God's. It also attempts to give us a glimpse of our future so as to take the worries off ourselves for our future, or paces it worse by telling us of impending doom...
Thus us the allurement of about half the New Age mess. The Ouiji board is prolly one of the most well known sources among people. It neither hurts nor wounds physically and it gives us information that we cannot get honestly or find first hand. It is also interactive like tarot cards, in that we can ask of it what we will and get a believable answer in some form.
People, as they get older, tend to get more worried about themselves, others, and the future. Esp the future we are seeing right now, with wars all around. People murdering and thieving and lying. Manywho dabble in it are looking for solid security that they can grasp "right now". All God ever says in the Good Book is to have faith and trust in Him. Many people can't because they see the evil all around them and befalling those they love and feel that it is unjust. That God must not be doing something about it, or He has instagated some of it, or is ignoring it for some reason.
What people don't realise is that everything we have before us as individuals are lessons for us to learn. Each hardship helps us to grow. Each person is another opportunity for us to practice being a loving person. Each wronged act against us (or a perceived wronged act) is a test to see if we can get through it gracefully. Each obstacle is a chance to grow more as God intended. Many choose not to and remain stagnant spiritually. They then wonder where God is or if He is truely there.
Think of it this way, how many of us swore at the person who cut us off in the lane on the freeway? What do you say when road rage takes place, or there is a near accident? Do you bless them, or do you curse them?
God truely there. Make no mistake, He is constantly calling your name. So are the angels for that matter...
I'll give this to you for a thought. It is the same thing I thought some of my little kids in CCD when they consistently disrupted class (or worse)...
Your Guardian Angel is a pure spiritual being. S/he has never sinned and never will by virtue of the descision made at the beginning of creation when one third was cast out. Pure. Pure Love. Doing His will. You do you force your Guardian Angel to watch you sin?
Just a thought for all you guys out there.
You are on the road it sounds like Hasah. Keep going.
Re: The Ouija Board: A Game or a Gamble? Part of it being worried about myself and part being worried/concerned about people in my life, those I meet. I guess it was reaching a point where I didn't want to miss another chance of 'being' a good witness. Then again, haven't behaved as such. I get locked on an opinion and spout my mouth, not good. Slow to speak & quick to listen, that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
And most importantly, keep praying, pray without ceasing, a long way to go there too.
Last edited by HasahZ, 6/13/2007, 4:35 pm
--- ...Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them.
Amen
Slow to speak & quick to listen, that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
Keep in mind that every icon is pictured with large ears and eyes, and a very small mouth. There's a reason for that.
I always remember a famous quote (but I don't remember who said it): It is better to keep your mouth closed and have people think you are stupid than to open it and remove any doubt.
Not that I pretend that I follow my own advice....
Re: The Ouija Board: A Game or a Gamble? Maybe I need my jaw wired together (fingers too?).
Then again, I do have my mouth guard, can't talk well with that in, just leave it in all the time, that could work.
--- ...Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them.
Amen
Re: The Ouija Board: A Game or a Gamble? Posting on this to bump it up and just things on my mind these days.
I still kick myself for being the one that had the idea to try a ouija board with a friend of mine, it was my idea because I thought it would be cool to try. Back then I still fancied UFOs, ghosts, hauntings, all that new age junk. Sad thing is I have no clue how many people we all affected with the garbage that came out of playing with a board.
In some ways this is all so much in my past, almost what seems like another life, in other ways it's still close. I can talk about it in doses but beyond that need the space from it. I'm not afraid of it but at times worry I could still be susceptible. I get that impression from others too like the woman with the occult list on Amazon who said she's still haunted by it... I can relate to that.
It does keep my awareness of things out there still there to an extent. Not the psychic garbage but discernment. I walk carefully as I know how I've meandered in the past. I used ot be one to rush home to watch the psychic on TV, loved reading my horoscope... in fact that was my birthday tradition for many years, even as a kid. I'm not proud of those days and more than anything embarrassed of them... I *should have* known better had I paid attention at Mass. To an extent I was raised in a lot of it or at least exposed to it.
There's a lot we don't see with our mortal eyes and I'm thanking God I didn't see a lot of junk I messed with in those days. I had friends that had seen things, one that even saw what was in front of him pull apart like a drawn stage curtain... that's when he stopped his dabbling.
It is my prayer that now I can be used for good, for God's work in this world. In those dabbling days... who knows, maybe it was my guardian angel but when I was thinking 'psychic' what came in my mind was 'satan's sidekick'.... and that was what I was back then in many ways. All the occult junk I stood up for and did.
People do get out of it, can be delivered from it and I thank God He did get me out.
--- ...Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them.
Amen
Re: The Ouija Board: A Game or a Gamble? and why did I post this here back in June? Anywho...
Jesus, I must be a challenge but I've never been one to take the easy route. Following You is definitely much easier than all the uncertainty I used to have in those dabbling days. May I never slip again.
Last edited by HasahZ, 10/14/2007, 4:31 pm
--- ...Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them.
Amen
Then again, I do have my mouth guard, can't talk well with that in, just leave it in all the time, that could work.
