That’s awesome to hear!
Glad you feel joy in God.
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Goodnight everyone.
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Reading these posts I’m reminded of a Bible passage I read randomly a few years ago that really moved me.
It’s the end of the story of Job, when he finally confronts God and demands an explanation for why he has been made to suffer so much.
God, rather than actually saying anything, simply asks a long series of questions in response. My best recollection is that they sounded something like this: “Were you there when i made the mountains? When i created the heavens? When i decided the depths of the seas? Did you count the grains of sand on the beaches? Did you plan the number of feathers on every bird? Did you count the number of scales on the laviathan? …”
It goes on for pages, i think. By the end, you have this overwhelming feeling like, “Yeah… why am I sitting here trying to judge God?” And that’s Job’s reaction, too, in the end. After this long story where he’s more or less demanding an explanation, he finally sees how arrogant his attitude is, and accepts that it’s not really our place to question God’s motivations.
I guess i found this especially interesting because the story of Job is used so often as “evidence” that God is unfair or petty, or that the Bible is crazy. At least, I’ve heard it used that way. But it actually makes the point very poetically that the notion that God owes us an explanation is inherently absurd. Anyway, i don’t know if i made my point very well, but those few pages really impressed me. But you might want to read it yourself; I’m probably not explaining it that well lol 
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Job is one of the worst and best books.
I still have questions at times.
But, if there is a moment that stands out in the book of Job, it is two things.
1.) Job never left God, and everything came back 3 times more than before.
2.) The Devil had to ask God to do anything. I ask similar questions. “Why did God allow it? Yes, everything was restored times 3, because Job was of perfect faith to God, but why?”
Anyways, there are stories of people who are satanist/witches/warlocks ect, that where trying to put spells on others, and the Demon simply came back and said, “I can’t do it.”
It’s a rabbit hole and I’ll leave it at that.
But, yes, Job is my favorite but has so many moments where i left at times scratching my head.
I’m still learning, I’m still trying to understand too.
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O Holy Mary, Mother of God, I turn to you with my anxiety and depression. Your love and my love to you calms me down and gives me peace in the midst of my stormy life. I owe you everything, I give my life to you. Thank you for being here for me and for everyone. You are my everything.
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The, “I have overcome the world” hits so differently. One of my favorite quotes of Jesus.
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“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.”
-1 John 2:15-16
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“Meditate on His word.”