God Has a Better Plan for You Than the One You’re Trying to Control | Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

God Has a Better Plan for You Than the One You’re Trying to Control | Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Have you ever felt a loneliness you could not explain — a loneliness that arrived quietly, without warning, as if God Himself had stepped back?
Have you ever wondered why the people you relied on suddenly grew distant, why relationships shifted, why companionship faded just when you needed support the most?
And have you ever sensed that this emptiness was not abandonment, but a strange and silent invitation from God — a call to release something you were trying too hard to control?

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux understood this mysterious kind of loneliness. She believed that God sometimes allows certain silences, absences, or separations not to punish the soul, but to redirect it — away from self-reliance, away from human dependence, and back toward a deeper intimacy with Him.
She wrote: “When I lean too much on creatures, Jesus withdraws a little, to remind me that He alone is my peace.”

Loneliness is not God leaving you — it is God clearing space for something better than what you were clinging to.
— Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

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This channel presents content inspired by the life, writings, spiritual accounts, and biographical works attributed to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. The prayers, reflections, and narratives shared here are developed based on recognized historical, spiritual, and literary references, but also include a touch of pastoral interpretation, human sensitivity, and contemplative language.

Some passages may employ narrative, symbolic, or poetic devices to facilitate spiritual understanding, promote inner reflection, and bring the viewer closer to the central message of faith, trust, mercy, and abandonment in God.

This content does not replace the direct reading of the saints' original works, the official teaching of the Church, or personal spiritual guidance, but seeks to serve as an invitation to prayer, inner silence, and a deepening of Christian life.