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Where do you go with your troubles?

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Where with
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Spiritual
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To whom or where
do you bring your troubles?

In the Gospels we read of the people coming in search of Jesus and all crowing round him. They brought their troubles, the sick, those stricken by evil and the deaf and dumb (Mark 1/32). The Gospels simply say - Jesus healed them. The people brought their troubles to Jesus expecting results and they got them.

What did Jesus do with his troubles? 'In the morning, long before dawn, Jesus got up and left the house, and went off to a lonely place and prayed there'. (Mark 1/35). Jesus took his troubles to his Father.

Where did Blessed Charles of Mount Argus take his troubles? As a child, when his mother discovered he was missing, she would call one of the other children to send them down to the chapel to bring him home. He was with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. After a few months as a soldier it was realised he was not suitable and sent home with the rider that he spend too much time in the chapel.

In old age living as a priest in Mount Argus Blessed Charles would climb the staires to the top of the monastery to the Monastery Chapel. There he would walk up towards the altar, turn sharp right and through the door into the sacristy. Leaving the door open he would walk through the sacristy to the door that led into the bell tower. Opening the door he would turn round and kneel on the top cold stone step. Looking through the open doors he could see the tabernacle and here, out of sight, he could be alone with Jesus.

Where do you bring your troubles? At times we need to bring them to a friend, the doctor or therapist. But always we should bring them to Jesus. Make a resolution. Find a place. Find space. Be alone with Jesus.

We discover a secret. As we come to Jesus with our troubles, our relationship with him grows. With his love in our lives the troubles don't seem so bad. Without him the troubles seem to grow until they are unsurmountable and threaten to drown us.