Finding Hope in Times of Darkness
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- Finding hope in times of darkness is difficult, but so necessary to our happiness and attitude towards life.
Hope is so often a misunderstood virtue, it’s no wonder people usually undervalue it.
Bobby Angel lets us know that hope is not the false optimism that says, “I hope I live to see the day when poverty is no more,” and it’s not simply a wishful expectation like when you say, “I hope I get that awesome laptop for Christmas.”
Hope is a gift from God that helps us keep our eyes on heaven, even when things seem dismal and dark here on earth.
As Pope Benedict XVI said, “One who has hope lives differently.”
Here are some excellent resources on this essential topic.
Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl (amzn.to/2FXXVD8)
Life is Worth Living by Archbishop Fulton Sheen (bit.ly/2U89fQ9)
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"...but that (darkness) doesn't have the final say in the end." Such good words to always remember.
Wow I legitimately am in a rough state rn like this very second and as I am crying on the phone I get this notification. It almost has to be a sign from God.
Keep the faith Cain. Our prayers are with you and for you. Whenever you feel down...just pray the sign of the cross on yourself and the I Believe. It'll do you wonders
@@CK-wc8ow thank you
I am praying for you Cain.
It popped on my phone just when I needed it the most. Just when I wondered what to do
I will pray for your uncle. Cuz I'm exactly like him. I make music, teach, study my 3rd uni, I know 6 languages and I laugh all the time, I have travelled all over the world at 24 but when I'm alone, I tend to think to myself what is worth living. Majority is lying and the relationships are corrupted. I want to meet Jesus,etc. I am depressed. I have 2 more wishes to realize if God helps me. And then I will feel real happiness. And one of them is to teach the orphans every wonderful thing I know. The only thing that makes me continue is the kids. Of course after Jesus.. Anyway. May God forgive and bless your uncle. 💙
AMEN
Perfect timing for this video 😊😄
God bless you. my friend 😊😃
I suffer from chronic depresssion . I accept this suffering as my existence in this life , which helps me through my day . My hope is all with God in eternity that it will be better there . Sadly many people keep trying and struggling to be happy . This backfires as life is pain and sorrow but only sprinked with true joy .
I hope things have gotten better for you.
So sorry about your uncle. That scenario you described with your family is what keeps me here. I couldn’t bear to do that to my family, even though living is sometimes unbearable for me. I just pulled out my copy of Victor Frankl’s book. I’ve had it for a while. It’s probably time I read it. God bless you.
Thank you for sharing the story of your uncle, Bobby. I'm sure it's not easy to talk about that (let alone speak about it in a TH-cam video), but it helps me and I'm certain it has and will help many others. God Bless
Many people hide their inner pain through humor. Look at comedian Robin Williams.
I've noticed something extraverted people have a more difficult time coping with hardship in life than introverted people. An extraverted person needs the approval of other people to make themself feel better about themselves. They also tend to be more sensitive when bad things happen in their lives. An introvert doesn't need approval from people in fact they tend to have few or no friends they know that no one has their back but themselves therefore they are better equipped to deal with what life throws at them.
Bobby, you have no idea how valuable and timely this video was for me right now. Thank you and thank God for you and your witness you've shared.
This video came at the perfect time! Thanks be to God! Life is hard and especially serving God daily, but I take up my cross and I get to become who I’m meant to be
Amen
Great video Bobby. God bless you and your family 🕇🌹🌼🕇
Thank you very much for your video. I really need it because I had a depressing times but I had to get up because There's still hope with God. God bless always ⛪👼
I hope your fine now. Sending hugs and prayer 🫂❤️.
@@bearhugforyou9330 Awww thank you for that. I really appreciate it very much 😊😊😊
Thank you, Bobby, for sharing such a painful thing in your life. God bless.
Been waiting for this all week!
Thank you so much for a beautiful message of hope and love!! GOD BLESS YOU!! !
Part of living this life is that we all will be mostly depressed sad grieving worrying frightened but it’s meant to be that way the good times will come and raise us up for a short time but if you find god who is Jesus it’s a lot easier to get through the hard times and when they come you find it wasn’t really much to care about plus the next life with Jesus will be brilliant and last forever so just confess with your lips Jesus died for your sins and you will be saved god bless
Thanks sir Bob.
Thank you happy new year from Ireland!!
Fantastic lesson. Thank you!
Well said Bobby, God bless❤
Great video well said
Wow, hope! Nearly forgot about that.
God love you
Heres my poem to pain i conveyed to a friend .
PAIN
Run where too,
Pain knows,
Pain sees,
Pain hunts,
Pain smells the Stench of your happiness.
Pain devours your dreams , to vomit them.
Pain ubiquitous friend .
Pain shadow and air.
Pain light and Dark .
Pain life and death.
By paul mc Gorian Dublin ireland .
Love Frankl’s book!
helped me a lot:-) thank you ♥️
Thanks... having a bad day...
Great video
God Bless u too! :)
It is hard to live in joy when so many are suffering. I just pray. Any other advice?
April 1, 2022
I’ll pray for you. I had rough afternoon yesterday even though I was given a great blessing in the morning actually two. I’m feeling better today. God bless us and give us strength and hope.
@@marybeth1747 thank you so much. I needed to see this.
Attend church at least once a week ,pray the holy rosary daily, read the Bible, and gospel.
How does the Rock church compare to the Catholic Church?
😇😇😇
For the past two weeks on Sunday it has seems that I started and truly hate the music that is played at chruch. I use to like singing in chruch but now the music is so blan to me. It seems stupid but for a guy who is in band it means quit a whole lot to me. I like more of orchestra than a Christian rock band.
You should try going to a really traditional church. They don't have guitars and modern music and sometimes they sing in Latin and it's really beautiful
@@loganeverly4910 thank you I appreciate it means a bit for the help.
Early morning masses are usually quieter and for the more traditionalists. All the 6 or 7am ones in my area have no music. I love it too because all you see is a sea of gray hair.. the die hard older Catholics that make the experience and prayer so much better.
Stop using nazy history as a comparison or allusion.
Are you saying using it as a comparison or allusion is boring?
@@vima602 the atrocities of WWII have become a secular satan. An example of what could be the most extreme evil.
Some people use the loss and suffering of their people as secular stand in for Our Savior Jesus Christ. They completely deny him.
Catholics should avoid using those allusions completely.
Oh sure, oh magnanimous anonymous commenter, I'll get right on that. It will go right next to the allusions that I will stop using in reference to Soviet Russia and the Gulag Archipelago. Goodbye also to many of my comparisons on the economy to 19th Century British literature because they certainly have no meaning to us in the 21st Century. Thanks for setting me straight.
@@ninjamaster3453 hmm that's interesting are you saying catholics deny Jesus because they use what Jewish people have gone through?
You don't need a god to have a purpose in life.
richard lawlor
If God does not exist, there is nothing to look forward to beyond death. In the end we will die and it will be for nothing; what is the point? We can make up a purpose that makes us feel good and forget our inevitable death, but the only thing that gives us true purpose is the reality that God exists. Because that means we have somewhere to go, and that means there are things we have to do to get there.
Not really..
@@mariastephens8643 yeah that's the only reason why you believe in your god, you want to live forever. Well it ain't going to happen darling.
Yes, right. We need God not 'a god'
@@cayanaraycaudhuri you might but I don't
Amen
Amen