1. Don’t give up. Pray your way thru it!

2. Don’t give into passions, or they win.

3. Don’t blame God, turn to Him, and don’t leave His Side. He will help you.

4. God is not blind. He sees what you saw, experienced and endured.

5. Resilience will get you thru any un-merited honors an opponent gets, from lies and calumny, to cover his/her own sins. (Never doubt that God sees all this, and no one can escape His Gaze.)

6. Remember your opponent’s resume, does not contain their Un-Confessed Mortal and Sacrilegious Sins, covered up by more lies and half-truths geared to get them, to their next “Ta Da Moment” amongst other unknowing Catholics. You have nothing to prove. You know them better, than their Confessor, or even the Pope does. You know their sins. You know they are cowards and liars. That’s not power. That’s an impetus to pray for them and work for Justice, and Peace. You may not get total justice, until you reach Heaven.

7. Love Forgive them. (If they make it to heaven then they Confessed it, or maybe they were nuts and have mitigating circumstances, like being on Psychotropic Drugs.) You’ll have to see their mug forever, so get thru it, with God’s graces.

8. This is the time to find out about that Patron Saint of the Problem Your Dealing, with!

…. I guarantee that Saint will work with God to affect astounding miracles, in your life that will boggle your opponents….!

St John Nepomucene – Martyr of the Seal of Confession defended me, big time. A Catholic Opponent who called me a liar and threatened me with a litigation was found dead, on the Feast Day of St John Nepomucene! So, miracles do happen, when you pray with great faith! No doubt St John defended me, as my personal lawyer, at the only Court Date that ever matters…that Catholic Opponent’s Personal Judgment Day. You will be vindicated, so there is no need to retaliate. God will avenge you. He always does.

*** Never buy the lie, that the Seal of Confession has never been violated. My Seal was violated many times, by several priests. I could fill up a book with what I’ve gone through. But why bring you down. The fact that the priest used one of the witnesses to the Seal’s Violation to lie about me, in court, to save his own skin is astounding. They attributed to me their own stupid, fearful thoughts, and accused me of what they were doing to me: namely harassing me as I prayed, in Church (witness and; another man) and lying about the Seal Violation. God gave me a witness, who couldn’t stand me, but came forward and told the Truth. That witness to the Seal’s Violation was fired. Because his harassment with another man in Church was provable. Their “stories” were never known by the Judge to be untrue. Plus, I got run off the road and called, before and after court. My Diocese is truly filled, with sick, immature, lying Catholics. Their integrity is nil.

(You haven’t lived until you get flipped the middle finger, by a priest, during your confession, because you told him you believed the woman who complained to me; that her best friend’s son was raped, by him.)

One priest – an enemy – told me “you know too much.” I did not ask to know this information. But, victims know I’m on their sides, not the priests, who are accused. No one wigs out like that, had it not happened. A mother’s instinct tells me that much.

So, you see, I struggle to love both sides yet I side with the side of Truth, not Lies. If it was the other way and the Truth was the laity was bad and not the priest, and I knew it to be truth, then I would side with the priests, who were telling the truth. This Diocese lies from the Top on down. Frankly, I am tired of it.

I don’t play dumb.

Gay Marriages are going on, since June 2009, at one liberal parish.

And, etcetera, etc. So, it does disgust and anger me.

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However, God taught me, not them how to play the Piano in front of the Blessed Sacrament, at age 43. Yes, God can teach an old dog new tricks. I’m living proof!

…. When I needed defending, God pulled through, for me. Big time! And, I am Eternally grateful.

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….. I guarantee that God wants to affect that miracle, in your life, too. God will increase your faith, in Him.

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…. The Devil will use even Catholics who are not, in the State of Grace, or who are weak in their Catholic Faith, from years of giving into their particularly committed sin…to trip you up, bar your Way of Entering, or participating even in Christ’s Church, Sacraments, or to tempt you tacitly, to tempt you to stop praying. Obviously, some of these folks only pray, to be seen to be praying. Their hearts are far from Him.

So don’t be surprised, shocked or get hopeless when even a group of foolish Catholics attack you or your good name. They are deaf, dumb, blind and stupid. Forgive them. Love them. And, walk away from them. Their deeds are nonsense.

You aren’t the only Catholic who has gone thru Catholic BS and you won’t be the last. It happens! Even Jesus went thru Jewish Religious Leader’s Bullshit, and He was left by 11 fearful Apostles, but one, when He was crucified. Only St John stood beneath Christ’s cross, with Mary, Our Blessed Mother. Forgive them and try harder not to hold a grudge against them. It will only destroy you. Not them. You are to love and forgive them and pray for them to Confess their sins against you. Wash, rinse, repeat aka go to Confession and confess the sins of un-forgiveness.

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…. I asked God in 1992, if I could suffer more. And, God answered that prayer. So, I have no one but myself, to blame, for the Hardballs hurled, my direction.

… Thing is: to bat at each hardball and run the bases. Or walk, if you’re older, now. You will Win! You have a Savior who has run those bases: faith, hope and charity, in His Life and He made it to home base, all the way to Heaven….and so can you.

Talk to God, as a friend. When you are mad, glad, sad, and even bad: thank God thru it all. When your neighbor is mad, glad, sad, and bad: thank God thru all their bullshit too. If nothing else, just to piss off Satan at the absurdities of any kind of sin, he tries to trip you or your neighbors up with.

Love your enemies and forgive them a gazillion times over. No that does not mean you let them get away with their bullhsit. It means you do that, so you can see your way through, with a clear mind and heart.

…. Look at Christ bidding you to look at Him bidding you to Walk on Water towards Him.

… Those folks trying to piss you off are jealous of your strong prayer life. They will even “Bar The Way” that leads to Jesus, just to get your goat. How well I know.

… Don’t get excited about it, that’s what the devil wants. He wants your discontent. Ignore those people. They are “dust, and unto dust they will return!”

…. Ignore the waves, stupid folks do to push your buttons, and focus on Jesus instead, who bids you to ignore them and their man-made twisters, and look at Jesus, in your mind and forge ahead until you reach Him.

…. A great big bear hug from Jesus, awaits you!

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And, it’s the daily grind, that will bring you closer, to God and others, in the end.

All the Way to Heaven is just one big bear hug, after another. God is like that. He loves you and He’ll see you thru. T’aint nothing He h’aint seen. Nothing He h’aint had to overcome, Himself, when He walked thru the streets of Jerusalem. He tells us in Scripture, that He is The Way, The Truth, The Life. He knows when you’ve been lied about, pushed down by fellow Catholics.

…. God is not aloof. Nor is He deaf, dumb, blind or stupid. He knows and is concerned about everything in your life. And, He’ll get you thru it all. He is your personal Savior. Trust Him.

…. And, don’t forget to thank God, for the opportunity, to carry a cross, even a heavy one, with Him at your side.

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…. Thank God for the Good, the Bad, and the Bullshit, in your life!

… I know it sounds crazy, but “In everything, e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g give thanks.”

Just remember it was a Bad Catholic who was King of England, who lost sight of this Bible verse. King Henry VIII went barefoot, on a Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Walsingham, to thank her for his newborn son, little Henry IX. Shortly after the King got back home his son died.

… So King Henry the VIII went nuts!

He destroyed the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. He confiscated the Catholic Churches and destroyed them too, or remade them into his own image of church.

…. Henry VIII – Lost his head in anger!

(And, all of England paid dearly, for it.)

…. He made himself a false head of his own Church.

…. He loped off the heads of all his wives, but one.

SOooo….giving thanks, for all the bullshit in your life – allowed by God or dished out to you, by others, and not loosing your head over it, is better, than loosing your head over your problems, like England’s infamous, King Henry VIII, and wrecking havoc in your life and those around you.

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Life is a cross. Carry it. The furrows, that your crosses make on earth, will be used, by God to sew flowers, in other people’s path, when they see that you have made it through, the Gauntlet’s of Life.

… Grinning and bearing it, works!

And, for all the times I did not follow my own advise, I could describe in detail what a Mud Puddle, Cow Pie or The Pits looks like. But, well, after describing the texture, consistency and smell of a mud puddle, cow pie or a pit …. there’s just not much to say about it.

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After reading this long winded banter you deserve a reward. So here’s my bear hug, from me, to you.

I hope this article heals and helps you get through each new trial, with a smile.