Realign Your Image of God - Feed Your Soul: Gospel Reflections

[@dawnelainebowie3943]

God is not like me, but is without the limits of time and matter that trap me in my humanity. He is goodness itself. Love itself. (1) Limitless; (2) Goodness; (3) Love.

[@edobrien5112]

Message of power,love and hope for the future.

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

Indeed. Thanks Ed.

[@davidchristian8461]

How we see God is how we see ourselves. Amazing.

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

Indeed. Delighted this resonated with you David.

[@lucydohr]

This reflection totally took me off guard since I had never bothered to think about how I see God. I told myself that my image of Him was as a loving father, but in truth, that perception was colored by my experiences with a father who I know loved me, but was emotionally and at times physically abusive. I feared him. I realized that in my relationship with God, there was always fear of punishment and it was making it difficult to trust Him and love him fully. I am working to change this image through prayer and reading the gospels so that I may have a deeper connection and closer relationship with the Lord. Thank you for opening my eyes with your words today, Matthew.

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

Thank you for sharing this part of your story Dawn. It is a powerful exercise and a deep question to contemplate how we see God. I am delighted this resonated with you.

[@janicegensheimerr4064]

Matthew your Sons comment moved me to tears in a incredible wonderful way.. 🙌✝️

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

From the lips of babes

[@kimberlyhauptman9366]

I want to see God as a loving Father, who is close to me, always at my side, a teacher, merciful and full of love. Sometimes I am so hard on myself that I wonder why he would still love me and care about what I am doing and what is happening. I know that is not true. Hearing your message is another affirmation to keep trudging the road with God at my side. I will keep praying, meditation, reading the daily gospels, listen to you and I will feel closer to Him. My relationship with our creator will keep growing. Thank you, Matthew.

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

Powerful. Thanks for sharing with the community Kimberly.

[@dadwatts3606]

I feel like I understand you, and comprehend God more, because you shared about yourself.

[@Abby-GodLovesYou]

Thank you Matthew 🌷🌷🌷

[@jenniferminor4103]

Thank you for thinking about how God is 😍

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

I am delighted this resonated with you Jennifer.

[@rosehouse55]

I went to a theatre production last week with a friend, and we were early so we sat in the car and the topic of how we viewed God came up. Then, today, I opened my email to discover this video. This was not a whisper in my heart moment. This was the Holy Spirit with a sledgehammer shouting at me, THIS! The power of God is active and alive. Thank you for the reminder. I have shared this video with my friend.

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

Powerful. Thank you for sharing this with the community @rosehouse55

[@delmonteslusher6736]

WOWSZAAA. So powerful, so simple yet challenging. A message for the world. Thank you for your mission. May the Lord give you his Peace today and everyday !!!

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

Very welcome Delmonte.

[@lindafucci4672]

I keep going back and listening to this......

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

I am delighted it has resonated with you Linda.

[@nadinek7795]

Lord, let me set aside everything I think I know about you..to open myself up to a new experience today with you, your love and your grace and mercy you bestow upon me.

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

Love that.

[@julianneheck6759]

Nadine, thank you for this! I have been saying a new (to me) prayer, called the "Set Aside" prayer, where I ask God to help me set aside everything I think I know about Him, everything I think I know about myself, everything I think I know about other people, everything I think I know about the past, and everything I think I know about the future, for a new experience in God, in myself, with others, and in today. It is a powerful prayer. God bless you!

[@nadinek7795]

Julianne Heck It’s a borrowed prayer to me as well. Some friends of mine generously share it with me. My reality is this; There can only be one All powerful, All knowing, All seeing..and it’s not me. My peace is directly connected to me remembering and living in this truth.

[@sleepinglioness5754]

When I returned after years away from the Church, the greater I got to know Jesus, the deeper and more easily was my love for God. I had always believed in God, but never thought about 'loving' Him. Now I do. I guess we could say that's what Jesus meant when He told us "No one can come to the Father except through me." I don't know what I'd do without Him.

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

Powerful. Thank you for sharing your experiences and wisdom @Sleeping Lioness.

[@marthalittenberg941]

I really enjoy your wisdom. I find I learn more about my walk from your wisdom and love of the Lord. Thank you Matthew and your Dynamic team.

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

I am delighted the message is resonating with you Martha. Thank you for your support and encouragement.

[@cmbreed8772]

The timing of viewing this is uncanny for me. Thank you, Matthew.

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

I am delighted this found you when you needed it @CMB Reed.

[@julianneheck6759]

For me, too! Just what I need right now, today.

[@oceanblue3803]

My image of God is “big, mean, and scary”, which I didn’t even know until I attended a retreat many, many years ago. I realized that was my image of my daddy when I was a little girl. I still cannot relate to God as a loving father. I still just wait for Him to “strike me down, and punish me for every wrong/sinful thing I do. He has taken away so many people I love, my mom when I was 12, my baby daughter, my younger sister who was my best friend ever, and most recently, my husband of 41 years. It feels like a punishment. I withdraw and try not to love too deeply which is impossible with my children and grandchildren. I desperately need my image of God to change because of all this. It seems to me God is a vengeful God. The ONLY way I can pray and speak is through Jesus. Thank you for this, I just wish I could believe it!

[@julianneheck6759]

Prayers for you, Julie, from me, another Julie! Peace and blessings.

[@ceciliacrawford1823]

Jesus recently revealed to me that he Understands Me. Jesus Understands Everyone!!! This hit me like a brick. I'm so used to he loves me but to understand brought it to another level for me. God bless you greatly for all your wise insights. 🙂

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

Powerful. Thanks for sharing Cecilia.

[@enaukara5535]

Good morning 🙂

[@julianneheck6759]

This is, I pray, one of the most impactful things I have seen or heard for a long time. Matthew Kelly has a beautiful way of speaking and sharing that touches my heart, and in this video has touched upon something critical holding me back from God and from life and from others and from myself -- my perceptions! My false beliefs and old ideas and the way I have viewed our Father in Heaven, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus. I have seen and believed God through the lens of parents who abandoned me, others I was left with who were sick themselves and abusive, and then the fearful, wounded, diminished self that developed out of those relationships and experiences. I am going to ask God, as Matthew suggested, to reveal Himself to me and help me to open my heart, mind, and eyes. I know, deep, deep in my heart that God is good and is Love, but I yearn for that very personal experience I need in order for my life to be transformed. Peace and blessings to all.

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

Thanks Julianne. I am delighted the message served you.

[@mariaceledon2997]

💚💚💚 thank you

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

Very welcome Maria.

[@cathyschneider4564]

Thank you for once again sharing such a beautiful and thought provoking message. I feel blessed every day, since I discovered Dynamic Catholic, and your books of faith, Matthew Kelly. ❤️

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

Powerful. I am delighted the message is resonating with you Cathy.

[@LennyinFlorida]

Terrific message! 👍

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

Thanks Lenny.

[@MoonFlowerCreations]

Beautiful message. Thank you. 💕

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

Very welcome @ S.S.K., I am delighted it resonated with you.

[@lisac5844]

Thank you! This message hit to the core. Knowing about and learning about God is so very different than of our image of God but more importantly our relationship with God. In my life and faith journey I pray that my relationship grows and builds each day…my image of Him along with having a close, intimate relationship with our Good and Loving God! Amen.

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

I am delighted this resonated with you Lisa.

[@jibp3975]

This message contains such wonderful, descriptive thoughts and feelings that I need to watch and listen to it a few more times. I am going to challenge myself to make the list, as you did. I feel that I will come up rather short. Your list was great and each descriptive word held a special thought in my mind and heart. I like how you evaluate how much you know God, more than yesterday and yet, still so much more to know. Once again, thank you!

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

I am delighted this resonated with you @JIBP. I hope you will share it with others.

[@TinLizzy1]

Thank you Matthew. Bullseye for me. I emerged from a severely abusive father and neglectful mother. I learned over the last two years that God is not like them. Unfortunately I am stuck with severe , anxiety from my home life. I pray that God restores family life soon.

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

I am delighted the message is serving you Liz. Praying for your situation.

[@KathleenBanfield]

I can relate. I am praying for you!

[@TinLizzy1]

@@KathleenBanfield thank you Kathleen.

[@ZIPPERSPRING2CATS]

I too experienced neglect and abuse in my family. Hope you truly know you are not alone and with God the Father, God in His Son, and God the Holy Spirit, you are certainly not alone. I am a convert to the Catholic Church and it saved my life! Praying for you and wishing for you all good things! God bless you!

[@TinLizzy1]

@@ZIPPERSPRING2CATS thank you Susan.

[@MissPopuri]

Jesus is my brother, my father, and my friend. I was the oldest in my immediate family growing up. None of the older brother tropes in tv shows really resonated with me because I was the older sister to two brothers and a sister. It reminds me of how I need to step up and lead my fellows into a new frontier. My father could teach me things, and I would pick them up without much help. I don’t know if the scar on my left foot from a Spaghetti-O getting lodged in my sandal when I was four makes sense here, but I wanted to make myself lunch one day and all the contents spilled on my foot when I pulled the bowl out of the microwave that was too hot. It reminds me why we need to have rules and honor our parents and authority figures. My friend is kind of hard because I’ve had a hard time wanting to trust people outside my family. Jesus has shared blood with me (in a manner of speaking). He knows how I feel when I am going through that time of the month. I’m so tired and worn out with everything that he doesn’t give me a lot of work to do.

[@owenlawson8660]

I imagine God to be gender neutral. Created in the image of God compels me to slow down on the vision of God as Patriarch while being ignorant or dismissive of traits that speak to God’s nurturing and loving presence. When I fail to balance God’s masculine and feminine traits, it often sets the case to undervalue women who are created in God’s image. Thank you for this reflection.

[@marykiewlak5605]

I always have seen God as loving and forgiving. I don't know how or why, but I can remember even as a very small child when mom would try to keep me in line by saying "God will punish you". Something inside of me always rejected that. I can even remember saying to her something along the line of " well if He is going to punish me for being angry, but not someone who stole or murdered, He's a stupid God." ( I literally had to be 4 or 5 at the time). I don't know what made me think or say that, or reject what may have been part of my mother's image of God. But I just never thought of Him as an angry, vengeful God.

[@chachatruth3534]

THANKYOU!THANKYOU! THANKYOU! I asking myself this question constantly! & You articulate it exactly how I'm thinking! I know My God Loving Merciful! His ways are so far above mine! I want His will! In everything I do! I really want to know why He that called me into being What does He want me to do for Him! So many many questions! THANKYOU you are an amazing person!

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

I am delighted this inspired you!

[@peggyriehm6209]

Friend, Guardian and Healer. That’s how I imagine God to be today. ❤️

[@josephzammit8483]

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[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

Powerful attributes of God.

[@davesmietanski512]

These are my favorite videos you make. Very calming and insightful. Sounds silly, but I love the music haha .

[@MatthewKellyAuthor]

Thanks @D Smitty, glad you enjoy the music.

[@dennisshannah4978]

I hope this is an introduction to your next book.

[@SajiSNairNair-tu9dk]

👉everything is image ₹🤔

[@rjskeptic5273]

God has never been anything other than imaginary.

[@sleepinglioness5754]

Have you ever read The Lord of the Rings book or watched movie?

[@rjskeptic5273]

@@sleepinglioness5754 what's your point?

[@sleepinglioness5754]

@@rjskeptic5273 Did you?

[@sleepinglioness5754]

@@rjskeptic5273 Mythology/fairy tales were created and told to get a story/a point across. JR Tolkien wrote his Lord of the Rings story and created his mythological characters to get the point across about Catholicism (Christianity). The book is about Christianity. So if you liked the book and felt the movie made the book 'come alive', then you may already be believing in God and don't even realize it. Remember, Tolkien made imaginary characters based on real characters. Check it out and read about Tolkien. Joseph Pearce has written books on the subject of Tolkien and made documentaries. If you like the book, you'll enjoy Pearce's discussion and insights on the writings. There are other great documentaries on Tolkien and his book.

[@rjskeptic5273]

@@sleepinglioness5754 and what is your argument based on evidence for a god.