Sit in a quiet corner of the room, relax, take a deep breath, exhale, and let peace wash over you. Get together and become aware: you live. Say to yourself, “I live!” Say your name.
After five to ten minutes, become aware that you are a newcomer, a guest on earth. Someone – God – sent you to earth. He’s here with you. He holds your life. You are not only a body, but also a spirit. That is why you can communicate with God, who is the Spirit.
Surrender to the presence of God around you. Remain in that presence for at least five minutes.
Then think that you are on earth to decide for Love, Goodness, Justice – for God. Now, seriously opt for GOOD or for EVIL. There is only One who is good. Resist evil.
If you feel some resistance, call on Jesus to help you choose a new world – his world:
“Jesus, have mercy on me!”
From the book: An Encounter with the Living God (p. 63)
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/).
