{"id":2577,"date":"2015-04-29T09:17:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T14:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/moniqueocampowrites\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2015-04-29T09:17:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T14:17:49","slug":"his-mercy-is-a-ground-of-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/moniqueocampowrites\/2015\/04\/29\/his-mercy-is-a-ground-of-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"His Mercy Is a Ground of Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>My latest contribution to the Heart of Mary Women\u2019s Fellowship is up!<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #5c5c5c;\">f there\u2019s one word that summarizes St. Faustina, it\u2019s \u201ctrust.\u201d Keep in mind that private\u00a0revelations are mostly a \u201ctake it or leave it\u201d case and that not many saints receive visions. Many\u00a0of Faustina\u2019s sisters doubted her visions or belittled her as not being worthy of having them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #5c5c5c;\">Many skeptics would probably see her visions as hallucinations or delusions of grandeur.\u00a0Faustina had to trust that these visions were really and truly coming from God Himself.\u00a0Thankfully, she had a good support system. But as today\u2019s verse stated<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: #5c5c5c;\"><p>\u201cThe righteous will see\u00a0and they will fear; but they will laugh at him.\u201d (Psalm 52:8)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartofmarywf.squarespace.com\/blog\/2015\/4\/28\/mercy-day-21-mercy-is-a-ground-of-trust\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read the rest here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest contribution to the Heart of Mary Women\u2019s Fellowship is up! An excerpt: f there\u2019s one word that summarizes St. Faustina, it\u2019s \u201ctrust.\u201d Keep in mind that private\u00a0revelations are mostly a \u201ctake it or leave it\u201d case and that not many saints receive visions. 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