HOW TO FACE OUR

DAY-TO-DAY PROBLEMS?

Claudia NunesMarch 2014

WHAT ARE WE COVERING TODAY?

Where is our happiness? Faith Power of Prayer Patience

WHERE IS OUR HAPPINESS?

WHERE IS YOUR HAPPINESS?

Happiness

Blessed are the Poor in Spirit

Matthews 5:3

Everyone searches for happiness. Everyone seeks to find it in love.

WHERE IS YOUR HAPPINESS?

Even when people make mistakes through avenues such as vices or unwise decisions, people obey the constant urge to seek for happiness. However people have a tendency to deviate from the correct pathway by making mistakes in their options or decisions. Some day people will understand that the wanted unfound happiness in hiding from reality is a product of our interior balance, and it can only be found within oneself.

WHERE IS YOUR HAPPINESS?

As we see many people spend their entire life span in search of a love that represents their happiness. They pursuit everywhere and spend precious time and energy in pastime things, changing partners, or unsignifying relationships, constantly hiding under the excuses of the troubled pleasures of life. Searching in vain. Looking for without finding it.

WHERE IS YOUR HAPPINESS?

Happiness is not a product that can be manufactured, nor sold in bars.

WHERE IS YOUR HAPPINESS?

Complete happiness cannot yet be found in inferior worlds. However the search for this true happiness starts and ends within oneself. Many people waist time searching for it elsewhere.

WHERE IS YOUR HAPPINESS?

Spiritism brings the knowledge of God’s Laws and invites everyone to seek self-realization and self-reality. If the world does not offer the resources for legitimate happiness seek for it within oneself, winning over your most intimate difficulties, through enlightenment and through the dedication towards your neighbors life. It is only when humankind learn to love without reciprocity is that it will find real happiness. The one who loves finds himself in the pleasure of loving.

WHERE IS YOUR HAPPINESS?

Some may say: “I am not happy, nobody loves me” We answer “Love yourself and love your neighbor without expecting any tradeoff”, true happiness will be born within your heart brightening up your existence.

WHERE IS YOUR HAPPINESS?

People are only happy as they love, people only truly love as they free this love from their narrow life limitations and embrace our neighbors lives respecting charity’s divine impulse.

FAITH

FAITH

My beloved children, but a short while ago I said to you that charity without faith is not enough to maintain social order amongst men and women and be capable of making them

happy.

Bare charity

Charity practiced with abnegation

Faith can give humanity the courage and perseverance needed to carry the cross of terrestrial life.

God created us to be happy in eternity

Earthly life must serve solely for moral improvement

humanity is intended to be happy in this world, as long as this was search for in goodness

FAITH

Confidence can give Man the capacity to carry out material things

The mountains which faith can transport are the difficulties, the resistances, the ill will

The prejudices, routines, materialistic interests, selfishness, the blindness of fanaticism and the prideful passions are but a few of the mountains which block the way of those who work for human progress.

Robust faith gives perseverance, energy and resources which allow us to overcome these obstacles

Faith does not even try to find the means to win because it does not believe it can.

FAITH

Faith may be either blind or rationalized

Blind faith: Examines nothing Accepts without verification both truth and falsehood Each step may clash with evidence and reason Taken to the extreme it produces fanaticism

Rationalized faith: Based on Truth Guarantees the future What is true in obscurity is also true in light

Faith cannot be prescribed or imposed

FAITH

The dried up fig-tree is a symbol of those people appearing to have a tendency towards goodness, but who in reality produce nothing worthwhile.

Symbolizes all those who can be useful but are not.

Lacking in true faith, productive faith, the kind of faith which moves the fibers of the heart, in a word, the faith which moves mountains.

These people are like trees covered in leaves but without of fruits

FAITH

To have the courage of one's beliefs has always been held in great esteem by mankind

Jesus said that if anyone was ashamed of His words then He too would be ashamed of them

Doctrine we profess is nothing more than the development and application of the Gospel teachings

We plant on Earth what will be harvested in the Spiritual world

It is there that we will gather all the fruits of our courage and weaknesses

POWER OF PRAYER

POWER OF PRAYER

The power of prayer lies in the thought and does not depend on words

The place or the moment in which it is proffered

Therefore it is possible to pray in all places, at any time, alone or with others.

The influence of a place or time is only felt according to the circumstances which favor the meditation.

Communal prayer has a more powerful action when all who are praying join together in a heartfelt thought and envisage the same objective, since it is as if many beseeched together in one voice.

POWER OF PRAYER

In order to be gathered together in the name of Jesus

It is indispensable to be assembled in the spiritual sense

Communion of intentions and thoughts towards goodness

In this way Jesus will be found in your midst, that is to say either He or those pure Spirits who are His representatives.

Spiritism enables us to understand the way the Spirits can be with us.

In order to achieve this it requires merely the emission of a thought.

With these words Jesus wished to show the effect of union and fraternity.

POWER OF PRAYER

The sentiment of charity (mutual sentiment of benevolence) which animates from us is what attracts the good spirits.

If they are animated by mutual prejudice, hate, jealousy or envy, then the fluidic currents of their thoughts will repel each other instead of uniting them in a harmonious impulse of sympathy.

This does not mean to say that Jesus will not listen to only one person.

Jesus did not say: "I will attend anyone who calls Me.“

Jesus demands the love of one's neighbor

people joined through their hearts in a sentiment of true charity

PATIENCE

PATIENCE

What we call pain is actually an opportunity sent by God

When suffering do NOT allow yourself to be afflicted.

Being patient is a form of charity.

Everyone placed in your pathway by God acts as an instrument for testing your patience.

Christ is our Model, he suffered far more than any of us.

By atoning for our past we fortify ourselves for the future.

Be patient! Be Christian!

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Serenidade (Serenity) – Robson Pinheiro Santos (39)

Gospel According to Spiritism – Chap 9, 11, 19, 24, 27 and 28

The Spirits Book