"Then he said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself.” (Luke 24: 38 ).
I recently found this inspirational advice by Pope St John XXIII:
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but what is still possible for you to do." Very good advice for the fearful Apostles after the Resurrection.
My hopes and dreams are about the future. They deal mostly with desires and intentions on enhancements of my human potentials.
But my experiences are in a different category. They are historical certainties. Your experience is about how God dealt with you in the past. Eg on health, family, money, job, tools, food and future. Your experiences form the core of your own scripture. Do you keep a diary? Through the lens of your experiences, you can observe how God has been faithful to you over the years. St Ignatius Loyola advices that when you are in hardship, consider how God treated you mercifully at a period of prosperity in the past. I have found this advice very helpful in my life.
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