Today has been a bit more difficult than the past few days. The reason why is because my sexual temptations are increasing. As the temptations grow, I feel a growing amount of tension that I am usually prone to release through masturbation. But I will not be doing that anymore, Lord. I want to be holy, chaste, and sexually pure. I’ve had enough of sin. I know that you give me all the graces I need to deal with these temptations, Lord Jesus. I know that you love me and care for me and that you don’t abandon me. I know that these trials are good for me, my Lord. I thank you and praise you for them! I thank you for your many blessings that you constantly shower down upon me. You are so good to me and I love you very much!
Lord, please help me to be at peace with my decision to go back to school. I feel unsettled because I think that I may not be trusting you enough by trying to get a better paying job just in case I get married. But my spiritual director says there is nothing wrong with this. I know that you have given him to me to guide me – help me to accept his counsel as if it came directly from you.
2 Cor 12:7
Therefore, that I might not become too elated, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an Angel of Satan, to beat me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I begged the Lord about this, that it might leave me, but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” I will rather boast most gladly of my weakness, in order that the power of Christ may dwell with me. Therefore I am content with weakness, insults, hardships, persecutions, and constraints for the sake of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
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