"Every human person is believed, has its own ways or special methods about how they communicate with God."
Communicating with God, raisen a simple question that invites us to reflect for a moment. "Whether we know who we invite communicate ?". in daily life, we unknowingly relegius experiences about communicating vertically or horizontally have been familiar with ourselves. For the example: If we get a gift or the other, by reflexes we said "Thank God", "Thanks be to You Lord" or when we see our brothers and sisters who are less fortunate, we said "God please protect them. We say by a reflex, by spontaneous, but we don’t know with whom we spoke. We talk too so much, so we do not give the slightest chance to talk to our opponents.
A good Communicating is the creation of a balanced relationship between person who talk to person who hear, but it does not stop here but rather a process of dialectics to generate useful conclusions to one another. Two-way communication allows us to understand about what we want to share and what we want. So it is with our steps to communicate with God, should lead to a two-way communication between people who speak and those who listen so that we know more in a conversational partner.
In communicating with God author tries to arranged into three part of major that steps can be taken to communicate with God. The first is spiritual training. In this process the experience of God presence that we perceive with our senses, embodied in the spiritual life that we pour in prayer, meditation, celebration of the eucharist, kotemplasi. The second step is the actual life. See our brothers and sisters as God that we can communicate. The third is how I know God communicate?,. In this stage want to invite us to be more aware of the nature of man and the universe created by Him, so we will be more thankful and reflect upon the gift of God so that by itself invites us to always communicate with God.
Hopefully this simple paper can help us easier to communicate with God. Not just to communicate but rather take the time to listen to your conversation partner.
CHAPTER I
I. Spiritual exercises
St.Ignasius Loyola in his book "Spiritual Exercises" explains what is meant by spiritual exercises.What is meant by a spiritual exercise is any way of examining the heart, meditation, contemplation, vocal prayer and interior, as well as any other spiritual activity,would say later. As long walk, a short distance or long distance running and physical exercise is called, so-called spiritual exercises every way of preparing the soul and provide care to escape from all sense of bonding does not irregular, and after that, then seek and find God's will in real life to salvation of our souls .
A Communicate begins with the existence of a habit which continues to be trained to be a habit. For this exercise allows us to be able to a good communicate is by the following exercises.
I.I. Checking conscience
Checking the conscience is an effort to better understand our conscience. good conscience out of a natural heart and pure without any bond or coercion from other person. Check the conscience by regular can help us to find the answers that have been deemed doubtful. For that conscience need a separate place so that our conscience can be heard by our senses first by the Lord.
I.I.2. Metods of checking concience
I.I.2.I. Thank to our Lord for the gifts we receive
I.I.2.2. Please grace to recognize and escape from the sins.
I.I.2.3. Ask for accountability from the soul, from the time up until the last examination, from hour to hour or from time to time; first about your thinkings and words, eventually the sequence of actions as specified in the examination of the liver.
I.I.2.4. Pleading for mercy to God our Lord for the deficiencies.
I.I.2.5. Make the intention to improve themselves by His grace. Closed with the our father Prayer.
I.2.Meditation
Meditate or reflect on events of life means remembering what happens in life and detailed then understand what the meaning of the moment and asked what should we do . In the face of an event or circumstance that requires a decision that this is the means of meditation can support us in find the best answer. The answer is a result of our vertical communication with God, or even contemplation of a personal nature.
1.3.Prayer
For people who have a lot of stickiness, prayer is the most uncomfortable silence is the most frightening thing because people have to deal with himself . Why? Because of prayer, really, you'll stripped; in the silence, you will stare reality for yourself that you do not realize.
CHAPTER II
II. Actual Llife
From the aspect of spiritual activity can be said as a process of intensive prayer journey. And it was meant to direct the action and live according to God's guidance, which must be translated into concrete life, historical and personal, and includes a choice of life goals and a reorientation of life under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit . In order to achieve the above, people are invited to follow the structural dynamics of the Spiritual Exercises.
After we lead lives by the actions and guidance of God, we should have realize that love to my brothers who need.
II.I. Finding God in everything
Every person has their own concept to finding God in dayli life. With the humility that everyone can say and believe in the concept of the presence of God in goodness, of truth, of beauty, or we could find God or believe in God will in the crime, like robbery, accidents and others. But we again become aware that it is the view of a sujektif concept . Who is needed is a concrete manifestation of the existence of social relationships between individuals with individuals, individuals with groups or one group with another group.
II.II. Humans are social beings
Human beings are social in nature. All human beings are interconnected and united in the overall social or community; and public addressed to the interests of all members. In the fight for the goal, each person must consider the circumstances and friends who struggle equally and all together should create a general prosperity that helps all its members, whether a natural person, either in groups formed .
Solidarity is human nature to get together to create a unity, a brotherhood, a strong relationship, a communion-together. Solidarity is more internalized, more specifically in doing good to the others, whoever needs us.
In the journey, they unable to reach the goal of his own will and strength. Mutual dependence of all human experience. From there arose the longing and the human desire to overcome this interdependence contact with each other, help each other, complement each other, "people began to live, and seeks solidarity." Sense of solidarity had entered a whole, which is not hollow. Beside of the human individuals and groups or nations can develop themselves toward goals, develop self-esteem.
For a sense of solidarity in which people act in solidarity, there should be an equality and human nature is the same value and dignity of all people, like getting out of the hands of the Creator!. True solidarity across all boundaries of race, color, education, wealth, language, culture. solidarity existence between humans, the human longing for warmer by the helpless, the very needy, who can’t afford (the sick, physically or psychologically flawed) parents, displaced drug addicts, drugs, alcohol, sex.
In the Christian view, it also come from the solidarity of love, the love of God and human others. And love that is the source of encouragement and strength to really try to live in common solider. God planned for mankind is from higher and more specific: that is to become children of God. Become children of God by living union with Christ. So here is specifically the nature of solidarity must be built. Solidarity with the whole church and its leader, we celebrate and biodiversity in the celebration of the eucharis
Chapter III
III.I. How did we know God communicate ?
In the book Spiritual Exercises, Ignatius gives an appendix, the "guidelines for the discernment of spirits". He said that it was a guideline to help us feel and recognize the various movements that arise in the soul: a good received, and the bad in the waste . " In this appendix I would like to clarify the guidelines that have been said by Ignatius is to help you interpret the vibrations in the mind, heart and body when you are in dialogue with God.
III.II. Discernment of spirits
Recognize two different spirit is the spirit of internal and external
Internal Spirit is our own spirit or the human spirit, linked from a person's character
External Spirit is still divided into two, namely: the Divine and the Holy Spirit diabolik or evil spirits.
The purpose and function is to better understand who we are, and, determining where the repetitive action is coming from.
III.II.I. Type discernment of spirit
III.II.I.Types of Divine of Spiri
Truth
Seriousness
Enlightenment
Obedience
weigh carefully
Humble
Peace
Confident with God
Supple
Plurity of intention
Passion in suffering
Self obligation
Simplicity
Liberty of spirit
Desire
III.II.II. characteristics of an evil spirit
Spirit of falsity
Unhealthy curiosity
Confusion / anxiety, deep depression
Tubborn
Blunder continuous
Spirit pride
False humility
Desperate and less confident
Lack of patience in suffering
Uncontrolled Lust
Hypocrisy, false impersonation
Excessive Institute of consolation
The shallowness of devotion to Jesus and Mary
Excessive obedience to the law and very passionate to promote it.
Conclusion
Sometimes we find the spiritual aridity arisen when we are afraid to step forward in our relationship with God or acts of direction in our lives that seems required if we want to remain true to ourselves and to God . In this time communicating with God is the seasoning that must to be implemented prior to cultivate the spiritual seeds in every human life.
A lot of methods used by individual communication with God. For the example there are communicating with prayer, meditation, contemplation, and other activities that are spiritual. In daily life without us knowing , we have communicated with God, namely through our brothers, especially our brothers and sisters less fortunate. Because it is said that the real man is the image of God himself..
Communicating with God is not just we always speak, but take a moment to take the time to listen to God speak to us, so we know and understand that God also speaks to us through the people around us, the universe and through our conscience.
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