¿Cómo gestionar el miedo? Salmo 91

0:00 Why the affective relationships I have are not stable. I like assertiveness because it invites us to prudence that what should motivate our word is always love is You, and that is already the basis to go out to conquer many goals, to fight, to give a better version and enjoy life fully. You know my nephew, he looks at me and with his usual firmness he asks me, uncle what spirituality is for. He replied with affection, but trying to connect with him and generate those concerns that allow him to develop his spirituality, I tell him spirituality helps us to properly manage our emotions. That is, someone who has spiritual practices is more prone, namely, to respond emotionally to the stimuli he receives daily. He looks back at me with approval. But he tells me and you give me a clear example, of course, yes, I do, of course I can give you an example. One of

1:34 the most difficult emotions to control is fear. We' re having a hard time managing fear. We know that it is healthy to experience fear, as this is the way. As we realize the difficulties, the risks, the threats. We could say that fear allows us to alert ourselves to situations that endanger us. But not only that. It also helps us to prepare ourselves physically to respond to these threatening situations, for I make you believe that a good spiritual experience helps us to recognize, accept and adequately express our fear, our fear. Each one lives his spiritual experience from concrete, personal practices.

2:46 Each one knows what spiritual space allows him to grow. I, in particular, Albert Joseph, live my spiritual experience in the midst of my faith Christian faith. I am a Catholic believer and my spiritual practices are always lived from that reference framework. To me, the psalm or psalms, that is, those poems, those prayers, help me to manage my emotions. I am convinced that Psalms, which are an experience we share in Judaism and Christianity, produce in prayerful readers ways to understand the situations and emotions they live. I want to share with you who are with me today in this episode, just as I did with my nephew. Tiago a psalm that helps me to face, to manage fear whenever I am in situations of threat by any experience.

4:09 I use this balance, a psalm that gives memory. Since I made my first communion, I learned it in the translation of the Nacar Colunga translation. Then I recited this psalm many times in the liturgy of the hours with seminarians and priests. You know that in my role I participated in those two stages. Praying it fills me with a confidence that allows me not to be afraid of the harsh situations that I can live daily. When I repeat his verses, I am flooded with a river of serenity that pacifies the restless corners of my soul. Meditating it makes a downpour of joy soak with the faces gives warm drop all my being it, I repeat when I get up before shooting an infinite series of thanksgivings for everything I live in some cold mornings, when I wake up to the minimum movement in my room, I say it to feel loved, protected and blessed. I' ve never had it open in a Bible on some of the tables in my house, because I don' t believe in fetishes, but I respect whoever does. Yes, I' m talking about Psalm ninety- one. According to a scholar of the psalms,

5:42 German Gunkele, this psalm belongs to the so- called sapiential psalms and he believes that by its reflexive tone, by its didactic tone. On one of the most complex daily situations, fear, the human fear of some in no way, the psalmist responds to the fears that all humans experience daily the fear that discontrols us by making us act in an irrational way or paralyzes us to the point of not being able to respond to the threat we face from their intimate and intense relationship with God. The psalmist reminds us of who he is for us and what his presence means in our lives, with beautiful poetic tax pictures of his existential scenario. He tries to convey to us the assurance that God’ s presence in us generates. He who dwells under the shelter of the Most High shall dwell under the shadow of the Almighty. I' ll say I' ve raised my hope and my castle, my God, who I' ll trust to say. When I say this first verse of Psalm ninety- one, I tell you everything in my heart and mind when I repeat it with the cadence of the one who loves deeply. To dwell

7:13 in gods is the daily life of those who love him, of whom he has opened his heart to reign. It' s not about going to a physical place, it' s about being in continuous relationship with him. To dwell in it is to know that it is present in us in the midst of all our wanderings, is to know that its presence protects us, because it fills the most important place of our being and that we represent with the heart. He is with us who can do everything to make sense of our daily actions. Living in the shadow of God reminds us that we can face the winds that prevent us from moving forward and that we can overcome the storms that shake us with force, because there is always a refuge in him.

8:07 Living under its shadow assures us the warmth under the leafy tree of life, in which we recognize who we are and are not afraid to live authentically without any pride. We feel sheltered like the chick under the shadows of the mother ' s wings, where, recognizing our possibilities, we do not let ourselves be despaired by the anguish of the problems that, like predatory Jauria, haunt us. We have hidden ourselves in the bowl of his hand, in which no one can harm us and in which we feel prepared for the battle of life. God’ s names express the experiences humans have had with him.

8:56 That' s why so many names, because he' s infinite and you can live at different times. The psalmist gathers several of those names, showing how full the presence of God in his life has been in different emotions. These first two verses of Psalm ninety- one, which I am commenting with you, use four wonderful titles or names of God. It is named as did the patriarchs, the ion that expresses God as supreme, as he who is above all and above all, which implies that he has experienced it as the absolute. He also tells Shadai almighty, the one who has the power to create everything, to beat them all, to fill us with his infinite love and to make us fully happy to the one who gives hope, because it is jafe that I like to understand as I am the one who will be. This is how he translates it from the biblical ecumenical translation and that he makes us know that the future is his constitutive time and we can hope for it and build it with hope, with the assurance that he will always have blessings for us and the Ohai or elojim, that is, the one who has strength and power to defend us from everything and from all. Listen, having these experiences of God, it is no wonder that the Psalmist jade

10:31 saying my castle hope, or that whoever lives that intense and intimate relationship with him and has experienced him as one who defends and cares for him, claims that in him we will always have hope, because God does not disappoint. That does not mean that it is a puppet of our desires or that it has to move to the sound of our whims, but it will always allow the best for us, even if sometimes we are not able to understand it. Thus, I am impressed by God’ s approval of the psalmist. My God says it' s everyone' s, but in that moment of intimacy it' s yours, mainly yours. So we have to live it so that all those fears that sometimes shake us, so that the evils of the wicked do not destabilize us inwardly, so that fanatics, with their poisoned tongue, do not hurt us, so that the hurricanes of poverty do not tear us out of a pit. I have to know he' s my God. No one has imposed it on me, but as that woman Ruth I am able to say, you are my God in that personal relationship, which allows us to have peace even in the worst storms. Hey, that ' s the psalm I pray when I' m afraid and I wanted to

12:01 share it with you, as I shared it with my nephew, hoping that he will learn it from memory as I do and learn to pray them. Hey learn to find spiritual experiences that fill you with peace and make you overcome the fear that sometimes shakes you. Thank you for being there and thank you for sharing this moment with me. We' re in Apple, we' re in desert we' re also in Amazon, we' re in Spotify, we' re boom boxes you know bu