April 7, 2024

¿Cómo gestionar el miedo? Salmo 91

¿Cómo gestionar el miedo? Salmo 91

El miedo es una emoción sana, pero necesitamos saber cómo gestionarla. En este episodio quiero compartir contigo una experiencia personal con el Salmo 91.

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El miedo es una emoción sana, pero necesitamos saber cómo gestionarla. En este episodio quiero compartir contigo una experiencia personal con el Salmo 91.

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Why the affective relationships I have are
not stable. I like assertiveness because it

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invites us to prudence that what should
motivate our word is always love is You,

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and that is already the basis to
go out to conquer many goals,

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to fight, to give a better
version and enjoy life fully. You know

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my nephew, he looks at me
and with his usual firmness he asks me,

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uncle what spirituality is for. He
replied with affection, but trying to

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connect with him and generate those concerns
that allow him to develop his spirituality,

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I tell him spirituality helps us to
properly manage our emotions. That is,

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someone who has spiritual practices is more
prone, namely, to respond emotionally to

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the stimuli he receives daily. He
looks back at me with approval. But

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he tells me and you give me
a clear example, of course, yes,

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I do, of course I can
give you an example. One of

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the most difficult emotions to control is
fear. We' re having a hard

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time managing fear. We know that
it is healthy to experience fear, as

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this is the way. As we
realize the difficulties, the risks, the

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threats. We could say that fear
allows us to alert ourselves to situations that

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endanger us. But not only that. It also helps us to prepare ourselves

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physically to respond to these threatening situations, for I make you believe that a

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good spiritual experience helps us to recognize, accept and adequately express our fear,

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our fear. Each one lives his
spiritual experience from concrete, personal practices.

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Each one knows what spiritual space allows
him to grow. I, in particular,

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Albert Joseph, live my spiritual experience
in the midst of my faith Christian

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faith. I am a Catholic believer
and my spiritual practices are always lived from

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that reference framework. To me,
the psalm or psalms, that is,

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those poems, those prayers, help
me to manage my emotions. I am

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convinced that Psalms, which are an
experience we share in Judaism and Christianity,

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produce in prayerful readers ways to understand
the situations and emotions they live. I

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want to share with you who are
with me today in this episode, just

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as I did with my nephew.
Tiago a psalm that helps me to face,

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to manage fear whenever I am in
situations of threat by any experience.

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I use this balance, a psalm
that gives memory. Since I made my

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first communion, I learned it in
the translation of the Nacar Colunga translation.

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Then I recited this psalm many times
in the liturgy of the hours with seminarians

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and priests. You know that in
my role I participated in those two stages.

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Praying it fills me with a confidence
that allows me not to be afraid

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of the harsh situations that I can
live daily. When I repeat his verses,

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I am flooded with a river of
serenity that pacifies the restless corners of

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my soul. Meditating it makes a
downpour of joy soak with the faces gives

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warm drop all my being it,
I repeat when I get up before shooting

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an infinite series of thanksgivings for everything
I live in some cold mornings, when

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I wake up to the minimum movement
in my room, I say it to

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feel loved, protected and blessed.
I' ve never had it open in

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a Bible on some of the tables
in my house, because I don'

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t believe in fetishes, but I
respect whoever does. Yes, I'

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m talking about Psalm ninety- one. According to a scholar of the psalms,

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German Gunkele, this psalm belongs to
the so- called sapiential psalms and

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he believes that by its reflexive tone, by its didactic tone. On one

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of the most complex daily situations,
fear, the human fear of some in

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no way, the psalmist responds to
the fears that all humans experience daily the

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fear that discontrols us by making us
act in an irrational way or paralyzes us

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to the point of not being able
to respond to the threat we face from

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their intimate and intense relationship with God. The psalmist reminds us of who he

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is for us and what his presence
means in our lives, with beautiful poetic

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tax pictures of his existential scenario.
He tries to convey to us the assurance

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that God’ s presence in us
generates. He who dwells under the shelter

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of the Most High shall dwell under
the shadow of the Almighty. I'

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ll say I' ve raised my
hope and my castle, my God,

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who I' ll trust to say. When I say this first verse of

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Psalm ninety- one, I tell
you everything in my heart and mind when

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I repeat it with the cadence of
the one who loves deeply. To dwell

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in gods is the daily life of
those who love him, of whom he

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has opened his heart to reign.
It' s not about going to a

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physical place, it' s about
being in continuous relationship with him. To

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dwell in it is to know that
it is present in us in the midst

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of all our wanderings, is to
know that its presence protects us, because

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it fills the most important place of
our being and that we represent with the

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heart. He is with us who
can do everything to make sense of our

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daily actions. Living in the shadow
of God reminds us that we can face

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the winds that prevent us from moving
forward and that we can overcome the storms

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that shake us with force, because
there is always a refuge in him.

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Living under its shadow assures us the
warmth under the leafy tree of life,

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in which we recognize who we are
and are not afraid to live authentically without

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any pride. We feel sheltered like
the chick under the shadows of the mother

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' s wings, where, recognizing
our possibilities, we do not let ourselves

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be despaired by the anguish of the
problems that, like predatory Jauria, haunt

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us. We have hidden ourselves in
the bowl of his hand, in which

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no one can harm us and in
which we feel prepared for the battle of

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life. God’ s names express
the experiences humans have had with him.

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That' s why so many names, because he' s infinite and you

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can live at different times. The
psalmist gathers several of those names, showing

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how full the presence of God in
his life has been in different emotions.

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These first two verses of Psalm ninety- one, which I am commenting with

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you, use four wonderful titles or
names of God. It is named as

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did the patriarchs, the ion that
expresses God as supreme, as he who

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is above all and above all,
which implies that he has experienced it as

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the absolute. He also tells Shadai
almighty, the one who has the power

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to create everything, to beat them
all, to fill us with his infinite

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love and to make us fully happy
to the one who gives hope, because

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it is jafe that I like to
understand as I am the one who will

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be. This is how he translates
it from the biblical ecumenical translation and that

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he makes us know that the future
is his constitutive time and we can hope

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for it and build it with hope, with the assurance that he will always

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have blessings for us and the Ohai
or elojim, that is, the one

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who has strength and power to defend
us from everything and from all. Listen,

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having these experiences of God, it
is no wonder that the Psalmist jade

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saying my castle hope, or that
whoever lives that intense and intimate relationship with

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him and has experienced him as one
who defends and cares for him, claims

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that in him we will always have
hope, because God does not disappoint.

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That does not mean that it is
a puppet of our desires or that it

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has to move to the sound of
our whims, but it will always allow

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the best for us, even if
sometimes we are not able to understand it.

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Thus, I am impressed by God’ s approval of the psalmist.

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My God says it' s everyone' s, but in that moment of

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intimacy it' s yours, mainly
yours. So we have to live it

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so that all those fears that sometimes
shake us, so that the evils of

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the wicked do not destabilize us inwardly, so that fanatics, with their poisoned

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tongue, do not hurt us,
so that the hurricanes of poverty do not

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tear us out of a pit.
I have to know he' s my

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God. No one has imposed it
on me, but as that woman Ruth

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I am able to say, you
are my God in that personal relationship,

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which allows us to have peace even
in the worst storms. Hey, that

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' s the psalm I pray when
I' m afraid and I wanted to

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share it with you, as I
shared it with my nephew, hoping that

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he will learn it from memory as
I do and learn to pray them.

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Hey learn to find spiritual experiences that
fill you with peace and make you overcome

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the fear that sometimes shakes you.
Thank you for being there and thank you

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for sharing this moment with me.
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re in desert we' re also
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we' re boom boxes you know
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