Mother Natalia

So for instance, one of my favorites is to pray, Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, my soul waits for you in silence.

And so if there's a particular scripture in general, but I think particularly the Psalms that strikes you, you can also incorporate that into the Jesus Prayer.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, I rely on you as my shepherd.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, guide me as my shepherd.

Something like that.

Lead me beside running waters.

Literally the opposite of what I said.

Our monastery website is christthebridegroom.org.

The podcast that I have with my spiritual father is called What God Is Not, and it's on all of the platforms.

Yeah, good to be with you.

At what point were you like, OK, I'm open to being a nun and not having a boyfriend, not getting married?

I almost said when I made my life profession.

I was like, OK, Lord, I'll be a nun if you want me to be, but I'll be miserable and I'll be a bad nun for all of these reasons.

And I'm just going to spend the whole my whole life wishing that I were married.

What do you mean by addiction to dating?

I think I'm only realizing this as I say I've never shared this before.

What I often hear, right, is this distinction between guilt and shame.

So like guilt is feeling bad for what I've done and shame is feeling bad for who I am.

The way most people speak of shame, it's only a bad thing.

If it's toxic, we want to hide from God.