FREE FROM DESPONDENCY
The course of the meditation: Sitting in the silence of the room or nature, direct all your attention to Jesus who is in front of you. Look at Him and after thorough composure ask Him: WHAT IS MY TASK ON EARTH? Say the question lightly, aggravatingly, with the depth of your heart, several times. And then listen to the inner voice. God created you. Be as he made you. In this way you will achieve success, meaning, joy usefulness for others. Do not run away from yourself, do not be ashamed of yourself. Be proud of every detail of your life, behaviour, work, opportunity, because it is all from God. No one can dishonour you, no one can stop you, no one can deny you the necessities of life, if you are with God. Rely on the power of God in and around you. You can be holy as the saints were. If you want, you can, because God is with you. Don’t be afraid of human considerations, because God allows you to be respected and appreciated. Surrender to God’s arms, that Providence, and after ten minutes begin to thank God for every detail of your being.
People do not have a decisive word about life and success. God created every life according to His plan and He gives success to every man. Every man has reasons for existence. God gives the power and knowledge that man can fulfill and perfectly accomplish his life task.
When we surrender to God’s guidance, we certainly succeed.
As soon as we start relying only on people, we start experiencing frustrations. It all depends on God. Without God, fear, insecurity, and helplessness begin in us. God loves all people equally. He has no priviledged ones because all people are His children. Every man can be holy, successful, joyful, and happy. Every life can be designed. The question is on which you build your life: whether on the omnipotent force of the universe, on God, or on the fragile forces of man and creature.
Let this meditation free us from the inferiority complex.
He was born in Davor in 1938. After studying philosophy and theology in Zagreb and Rome, he was ordained a priest of the Zagreb Archdiocese in 1966. After achieving a master’s degree in philosophy and a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he returned to Zagreb in 1971, where he became a professor at the Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb. He is the head of the Chair of Fundamental Theology, and was one of the editors of the Theological Review. Areas of his scientific work are philosophy, theology and literature. He explores the relationship between philosophy and theology, faith and science, atheism and religiosity, revelation and faith, the Church and ecclesial communities, Christianity and religion, the phenomenon of sects and issues of theological epistemology. His special field of interest is the study of man’s existential-spiritual dimension, where he discovers the way of modern evangelization and the necessity of the development of spiritual medicine, which, along with somatic and psychological, is indispensable in the complete healing of man, especially in the healing of spiritual diseases and addictions. For this purpose, he developed the method of hagiotherapy and founded in 1990 in Zagreb the Center for Spiritual Help, of which he is the head. From 1971, in addition to working at the faculty, he was a student religious teacher in Zagreb, the initiator of the prayer movement within the Church of the Croats, the founder of a religious society called the Prayer and Word Community(MiR), and the leader of numerous seminars for spiritual renewal and evangelization at home and abroad. After completing his studies and scientific doctorate in fundamental theology at … (Read more at https://hagio.hr/tomislav-ivancic/).
