{"id":2862,"date":"2018-02-12T21:25:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T02:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/?page_id=2862"},"modified":"2022-02-17T08:44:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:44:55","slug":"gods-ways-not-ways-lent-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/gods-ways-not-ways-lent-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Ways Are Not Our Ways &#8211; Lent 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"youtube-responsive-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rEqYiwhCB0A?rel=0&amp;modestbranding=1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"summary\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Father Chase talks about Abraham and how he is a great example of trusting God\u2019s will as through the most difficult time of his life, his faith never wavered and kept believing in God\u2019s plans. Father Chase encourages us to follow the path of Abraham, to strengthen our faith and to go out and help others to realize that God will never leave us and that even through difficult times, He is here guiding us, and loving us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for watching and participating in this retreat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Not Registered, yet? Don\u2019t miss the rest of the talks! Register for the Pray More Retreat!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/2018-lent-retreat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click Here to Register!<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"downloads\">Downloads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"audio-mp3\">Audio MP3<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/audiolent\/02%20-%20Fr.%20Chase%20Hilgenbrinck%20-%20God%27s%20Ways%20Are%20Not%20Our%20Ways.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click&nbsp;here&nbsp;to download audio file.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"printable-study-guide-pdf\">Printable Study Guide PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gods-Ways-Are-Not-Our-Ways-Study-Guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to download the printable study guide.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"printable-transcript-pdf\">Printable Transcript PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gods-Ways-Are-Not-Our-Ways-Father-Chase-Hilgenbrinck-Transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to download the transcript of the video presentation.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"reflective-study-guide-questions\">Reflective Study Guide Questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cBrothers and sisters: If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him? Who will bring a charge against God&#8217;s chosen ones? It is God who acquits us, who will condemn? Christ Jesus it is who died\u2014or, rather, was raised\u2014 who also is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us.\u201d <\/p><cite><em>Rom 8:31b-24<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The mass readings for this Sunday are here: http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/022518.cf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>God\u2019s ways are not our ways, and our ways are often not God\u2019s ways. How have some of your ways not been God\u2019s ways?<br><br><\/li><li>Fr. Chase says that God does not give us trials that we are not capable of handling. What are stories of some saints or people you admire who have gone through difficult times and persevered in their faith? How are you able to emulate this type of great faith despite your trails this Lent?<br><br><\/li><li>Think of the story of Abraham and Sarah, and how God\u2019s ways were not their ways. They had a hard time understanding how God was going to fulfill His promise to them. Have you struggled like this? How has God come through for you? How has He provided for you?<br><br><\/li><li>God was able to bring forth a son out of Abraham &amp; Sarah\u2019s barrenness. What seemed impossible was possible for God. What seems impossible in your life? How can you hand that over to God this Lent?<br><br><\/li><li>Faith is the assurance of things that are unseen. What might God be asking for you to have greater faith in this season?<br><br><\/li><li>Is God asking you, like the Apostles, to go and strengthen other people\u2019s faiths? How can you do that?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"text-god-s-ways-are-not-our-ways\">Text: God&#8217;s Ways Are Not Our Ways<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>My name is Father Chase Hilgenbrinck, and today\u2019s retreat reflection will be based upon the readings that the church gives us for the second Sunday in Lent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"opening-prayer\">Opening Prayer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Heavenly Father, we thank You for this time of preparation, this time of purification. That we may be able to live our lives more fully in You and with You. We ask You especially for the gift of clarity, so that we may see from Your perspective, that we may adopt Your ways. So that we may think and see, speak and act as You would, so that we may become Your representatives in this world that needs Your help so much. So we ask Your blessing upon us in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"god-is-love\">God is Love<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, years ago, I was on a retreat, and the retreat master asked us \u201cWhat is the most predominant theme in all of sacred scripture?\u201d And of course, as good Catholics, good Christians, we thought that that answer might be easy. We wanted to come up with the right answer. And most of us repeated that the answer would be that God is love. It\u2019s certainly a theme that we see throughout all of the entire Old Testament to God\u2019s covenants with His people, constantly forgiving them, constantly taking them back. Of course, in the New Testament, we see God\u2019s love through the person of Jesus Christ, and we\u2019re going to celebrate the culmination of His love when He gives His body and His blood for the salvation of our souls here in Easter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, of course, that theme is explicit in John\u2019s Gospel. John says the words \u201cGod is love.\u201d But, of course, he refuted that and said \u201cYes, but there\u2019s something even deeper. There\u2019s a foundation. What is the foundation of God\u2019s love? What is the predominant theme that brings out God\u2019s love?\u201d And the answer that he gave us, something that I continue to think about and pray about today, is \u201cGod\u2019s ways are not our ways. And therefore, our ways are not His.\u201d And this is the most predominant theme in all of sacred scripture, because even God\u2019s love had to be revealed to us. His love was so different than ours, that He had to show us that His love is not our love, and that we had to learn the way that He loves. We have to adopt His ways. We had to come to know as He knows, and see from His perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-story-of-god-s-work-in-my-life\">The Story of God&#8217;s Work in My Life<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, I can say that this is the story of my life too. I know that my ways have not been God\u2019s ways. So often, so many people ask priests to tell their story, right. And what I mean by that, their vocation story. \u201cHow did you know that you were called to be a priest?\u201d And so often, I hopefully humorously say, but also at the same time in all truth, tell them \u201cWell, this isn\u2019t my story. If I were to tell my story, it would be very different than the story that I\u2019m about to tell you. Because I had chosen a different path. I had different desires than what God had desired for me. And so, the story that I tell you is truly my vocation story. It\u2019s the story of God\u2019s work in and through my life, that allowed me to see as God sees, and to adopt His ways.\u201d That\u2019s a priest\u2019s vocation story. That could be anybody\u2019s vocation story, who has been called for a particular purpose for the Lord\u2019s will in their life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-story-of-abraham\">The Story of Abraham<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the greatest vocation stories in all of sacred scripture, according to my opinion, is the story of a man named Abram who, as we know him more famously when his name was changed to Abraham. Abraham was a man that God had chosen from the beginning, a man that would become, as Saint Paul will say, the father of faith, right. He\u2019s the father of all of our faiths. He is the first, he is the one who trusted first in the Lord and had faith in the Lord throughout all of the trials of his life. And he had trials. Let me name a few of those right now. Some of those are less famous to us, but we probably know the one great story of Abraham\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But nevertheless, before that ever happened, the story of he and Isaac, we should know that Abraham was tested many times. And he wasn\u2019t tested with Isaac, with the killing of his own son until he was matured in his faith. Until he had gone through many trials. We should remember that about God as well. God never gives us trials that are beyond our ability to respond to them, right. And so, look at all of the trials that Abraham went through. First, when he was Abram, God told him to leave his family and his country, so that he could become a father of a great nation. Of course, talking about his family Israel, right, God\u2019s chosen people, that Abraham would become the father of that family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, he leaves his own country. And when he gets to that country, that promised land, right, there\u2019s a famine there, right. And so he leaves his own country and he goes to a place of famine, right. \u201cThank you Lord for bringing me here.\u201d I can only imagine that that tested his faith so much in God. And not only that, but when he gets there, the Egyptians seize his beloved wife Sarai, right, and she goes into the presence of the Pharaoh, right. What suffering would that be? For a man\u2019s own wife to be taken away from him in a strange country. How he must have feared for her. How he must have detested of the sinfulness that he only imagined in his mind, right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then he marries Hagar, right. In a moment of weakness, probably, he thinks that God will not make him a father with Sarah, because she is unable to bear a child. He takes Hagar into his own, and he has a son with her. A son named Ishmael, right. Talk about suffering. Then God would ask him to send Hagar away, and send the son away. Ishmael, his only son, becomes estranged from him and from his family. The king of Gerar then captures his wife Sarai, and intends to take her for himself, right. So, she\u2019s captured for a second time. This guy has been through a lot of things, there\u2019s no doubt about it. But of course, we know the final trial came, or perhaps not the final trial of his life, but the culmination of all of those trials, when God knew that Abraham was primed and ready, and he could be trusted with anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abraham asked God, he requested God, \u201cGod, You have told me that I was going to become a father. And I have yet to bear a son. I have yet to be able to bring forth Your creation in order to fulfill Your will for my life.\u201d And so, he requested that to God. And that\u2019s when God changes his name, and He changes his wife\u2019s name. Abram, the word Abram, his name means \u201cbeloved father\u201d. He must have felt like the laughing stock amongst the rest of the men. A beloved father who was unable to bring forth children, right. And so, God changes his name and ups the ante, right. God ups the ante. He doubles down on His promise, and He names him \u201cAbraham\u201d, which means \u201cfather of multitudes,\u201d right. Not just father of one, not just beloved father, but father of multitudes. And He changes Sarai\u2019s name to Sarah, which means \u201cmother of nations,\u201d right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">So, God has doubled down on His promise. He has promised to fulfill this. And they are now in their old age. Imagine that. And Abraham even says that. \u201cHow will You do this in our old age?\u201d Nevertheless, we know the end of the story, that God is faithful, and God does something that is beyond our imagination. Our ways are not God\u2019s ways, right, and God is able to bring forth a son even out of their barrenness. And that Son\u2019s name was Isaac. And, of course, God said that \u201cthrough that son, you will become a father of nations.\u201d Through that son. So, you can imagine why he\u2019s called the father of faith, when in the face of seeing his son, who was meant to become the father of nations, God says \u201cNow sacrifice that son.\u201d Every promise that God had given to Abraham to that point has been negated. The greatest test of his life. Yet Abraham <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/trusting-god-in-the-unknown-healing-2019\/\">trusts in God<\/a>. Even when He says that \u201cthrough this son, you will become the father of nations, and now you must kill this son.\u201d Logically, in human logic, that is impossible. What God has asked Abraham to do is humanly and logically impossible. Yet, Abraham trusts God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"faith\">Faith<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to what it says in the letter to the Hebrews, Chapter 7, right. It says: <strong><em>By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. And he who had received the promises was ready to offer up his only-begotten son, of whom it was said \u201cthrough Isaac, your descendants shall be named.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Now listen to this: <strong><em>He considered that God was able to raise men, even from the dead.<\/em><\/strong> He had no idea how God was going to do this, but he trusted God. Hebrews will also say that faith, as a definition, faith is the assurance of things that are unseen. It\u2019s the assurance of things we can\u2019t see. So, Abraham becomes the father of faith, because he is assured by God\u2019s promises that he will complete something that he is unable to see with his own human mind, his own human logic, and even beyond his wildest dreams. He dreamed that, perhaps, God can raise people from the dead, something that before Christ\u2019s time we would have never conceived of either. And therefore he becomes this father of many nations, right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And so, we go into the <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/the-good-news-ization-part-ii-healing-2020\/\">gospel<\/a>, and somehow the church wants us to see this story of Abraham, this faithful story, to become seen in the light of the transfiguration, which is what our gospel is today. Notice some peculiarities of this story. Jesus takes His inner circle. He takes Peter, James, and John, and He takes them up high on a mountain. We know the details of the transfiguration perhaps, that while He\u2019s up there, Jesus transfigures Himself, He shows Himself to be bright as light, bright as light, as no man has ever seen. And He reveals Himself to these men. What He is showing him is He is showing him His glorified body. He\u2019s showing him His very glory, right. He\u2019s proving to them that He is God. And why is He doing that? Well, we understand it when He says to them something that sounds illogical to us: He has shown Himself for them to be able to see, and then as soon as they see it He says, \u201cTell this to no one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">Why would He do that? He adds something to it. He says \u201cTell this to no one until I have been raised from the dead. Until you see Me die, you must not tell anyone.\u201d Well, therein, we see Jesus\u2019 plan for them. We see Jesus\u2019 plan for His life revealed in them. He is building them up in faith. He knows that these men do not see as He sees. He knows that these men do not yet believe in the resurrection. In fact, these men do not even believe that He is going to suffer and die, which is what Jesus reveals to them immediately after. He says \u201cThe Son of man is going to suffer at the hands of other men. You\u2019re going to see Me die. But wait for it, you\u2019re going to see me rise from the dead.\u201d And, of course, Jesus knows that their faith is weak. <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/the-genealogy-of-jesus-and-why-it-matters-advent-2020\/\">Jesus<\/a> knows that they can\u2019t possibly understand this. There is no Jew that could ever conceive, in that time, of a Messiah who would come and who would suffer. The Messiah was the one who was supposed to be the most powerful, the one who was supposed to rout all of the Romans who were oppressing God\u2019s chosen people, the Israelites, right. And so they could never conceive of the fact that He must suffer. But that\u2019s exactly what Jesus was telling them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And He knew that when they saw Him suffering, their faith would grow so weak that they would start to believe that maybe He wasn\u2019t the one. And so, He\u2019s telling these men \u201cWhen you see Me suffer, remember what you saw on this mountain. Don\u2019t lose faith. Remember that you saw My glory. Remember that you saw that I truly am God. And that My ways are not your ways. And I will show you the glory that is to be revealed in humanity.\u201d And so, Jesus is strengthening these men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder if we look at our lives, how we\u2019ve grown in our own faith throughout time. I bet if we were to examine our own consciences now, we would be able to recall times in our life where we didn\u2019t believe a certain thing about our faith. Where we didn\u2019t believe something to be true about God, or we said, \u201cHow could I ever believe that?\u201d And today we believe in it. I know for many people that may be the Eucharist. We look at the Eucharist and we say, \u201cHow could that possibly be true?\u201d But yet each of us, pray God, have come to the faith that it actually is true. Perhaps some of us in our life have experienced extreme suffering, abuse, broken families, broken relationships, death of someone in our family that we\u2019re very close to and we could say \u201cI could never live life without them. Why have I been dealt this hand? How could I ever go on living my new life ever again?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And maybe we\u2019re experiencing that right now. And God is telling you, and He\u2019s telling all of us, \u201cYour ways are not My ways. Trust in Me. Have faith in Me. Behold, I make all things new.\u201d He is the one who is faithful. With our own human logic, we can\u2019t possibly understand. Our own human logic compared to the eternal wisdom is tiny, it\u2019s puny, it\u2019s small, it\u2019s insufficient. And therefore, that is why we need faith. That is why we must have faith. Because our human minds cannot grasp the eternal realities. Not meaning that they\u2019re not true, but just meaning that we\u2019re unable to grasp them in our current state. But nevertheless, we have come to faith, we\u2019ve come to believe <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/impossible-things-can-happen-the-story-of-zechariah-elizabeth-and-john-avent-2020\/\">things that we thought previously impossible<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"go-strengthen-your-faith\">Go Strengthen Your Faith<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And so, I\u2019d ask you to consider for yourself this week: Is God asking you, like the apostles, like those 3 who went up the mountain with Him and said, \u201cYou\u2019ve seen something that other people have not seen before.\u201d And I\u2019m asking you to go and strengthen their faith. I\u2019m asking you to go to those who are struggling, who are suffering, your family members, your <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/sharing-gods-graces-christian-friendship\/\">friends<\/a>, your coworkers, your classmates. You know those who are suffering who are around you. Those who don\u2019t understand, those who felt like they had been dealt a bad hand of life. And God is asking you, who have received faith, who have come to know Him, to now go out and say, \u201cWe may have seen all of this suffering,\u201d but you are to be the one to strengthen them. You are to tell them what you have seen. You are to allow them to see from God\u2019s perspective. To know that their ways are not God\u2019s ways. But that God is faithful, and in Him we put our trust. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"about-fr-chase-hilgenbrinck\">About Fr. Chase Hilgenbrinck<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:27% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"382\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Fr.-Chase-Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2613 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Fr.-Chase-Headshot.jpg 310w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Fr.-Chase-Headshot-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/speaker-fr-chase-hilgenbrinck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fr. Chase Hilgenbrinck&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong>is originally from the Bloomington-Normal area where he grew up serving as an altar boy at Holy Trinity in Bloomington, IL.&nbsp;He was also a very gifted athlete as well.&nbsp;Fr. Chase made the United States Under 17 National Team in high school and was named a high school All-American before moving on to play at Clemson University. While at Clemson, he was a four-year starter helping the tigers to the 2001 ACC championship and four NCCAA tournament berths including two elite eight appearances.&nbsp; After Graduating in 2004 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Spanish and international trade, He signed with the Chilean first team division soccer league.&nbsp;&nbsp;On a second division club in 2006, he helped the team achieve promotion to Chile\u2019s top flight while winning the league title.&nbsp;Father played the 2007 season in the first division while completing his fourth and final year in the Chilean league.&nbsp;&nbsp;In two of those years he was selected the league\u2019s most valuable player at the left full-back position.&nbsp;&nbsp;He also spent time with the Colorado Rapids and played for the New England Revolution in the United States Major League Soccer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He ultimately left it all to enter the seminary to become a Catholic priest and was ordained for Diocese of Peoria by Bishop Daniel R. Jenky on May 24<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;2014. After ordination Father served as the Parochial Vicar in Moline and Silvis, Illinois as well as a chaplain at Alleman High School in Rock Island. In 2016 Father Chase became the Assistant Chaplain at the St. John Catholic Newman Center at the University of Illinois in Champaign, the nation\u2019s largest Newman Center.&nbsp;Father now mentors the Newman Hall resident advisor team and serves as the spiritual leader for the Koinionia and freshman retreat programs.&nbsp;&nbsp;He also helps to lead and mentor the student athletes participating in the Catholic Illini Athletic Intramural teams. While his life has been filled with many incredible experiences as a professional athlete there has been nothing in his life that has been as rewarding as serving our Lord and His people as a Roman Catholic Priest.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gods-Ways-Are-Not-Our-Ways.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gods-Ways-Are-Not-Our-Ways.jpg 800w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gods-Ways-Are-Not-Our-Ways-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gods-Ways-Are-Not-Our-Ways-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gods-Ways-Are-Not-Our-Ways-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"701\" height=\"316\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Pray-More-Lenten-Retreat-Image-without-many-words-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Pray-More-Lenten-Retreat-Image-without-many-words-1.png 701w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Pray-More-Lenten-Retreat-Image-without-many-words-1-300x135.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Father Chase talks about Abraham and how he is a great example of trusting God\u2019s will as through the most difficult time of his life, his faith never wavered and kept believing in God\u2019s plans. 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