This measna lot to me. I dealt with things that don’t make any sense, and sometimes I get angry at God, while loving him with as much as I can. This seems like a good instruction.
Me too. It was helpful for me. If I can't talk to God as a son to a father, not with disrespect but still with insistence based in real human need, what kind of God am I believing in? A tyrant? A God who makes me suffer for an unfathomable mystery?
That's not the God who came to earth and became man. To believe in such a distant God, an unapproachable God, a God who demands only worship and doesn't want to hear our complaints, is actually precisely AGAINST the spirit of the "Pater Noster".
That, like all prayer, is supposed to be spoken as a child speaks to his father. His dad. His "Abba". And that's the same attitude the Pope is encouraging here.
So thanks for posting ebb tide; it was helpful for me because it addressed a need I'm struggling with now. Whether or not it's "ok" to get frustrated with God's timing, his plan, and bring this frustration to him and beg. Beg for his mercy and beg for his forgiveness and beg for a deeper appreciation for his love. In my own words.
I thank God for the Pope's words in this regard; I consider it an answer to my prayer. God letting me know he heard me and now answers me through the Pope. And that it's ok to talk to him like a friend.