Author: curator@nobadhomily.com

Jesus is knocking at your door! Discover the implications on your spiritual life!

The Startling Implications When You Know Jesus is Knocking

Daily Influences to Manage, Important Thinkers, Virtuous Actions

Do you view God as distant, demanding and not easily impressed? Likewise, do you feel you need to get your act together to warrant his love and attention? This is getting our spiritual life backwards. In fact, whatever enthusiasm I muster for the quest for God, there is an infinitely greater enthusiasm on God’s part to find me. Jesus has already been knocking at your door! The implications of this fact are important for your spiritual life.

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Is Liberal Wokeism in line with Catholic Social teaching?

Is Liberal Wokeism in line with Catholic Social Teaching?

Daily Influences to Manage, Important Thinkers, Virtuous Actions

Should we believe that economic and political institutions are corrupt? Should we seek to tear them down in line with today’s wokeism? Or is political and economic authority necessary for an ordered life? Catholic social teaching holds that neither extreme is fully justified. Power can be good but power can also be corrupted. 

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Love Limits You

The Stunning Limits of Love

Daily Influences to Manage, Life Paths, Virtuous Actions

Most of us revel in having options. We coach our kids to keep their options open. But too many options is a recipe for anxiety. Think about buying a pair of jeans. Your choices include straight leg, skinny leg, athletic fit, slim fit, high rise, low rise, boot cut… Too many options and we are paralyzed in the face of what decision will be best. Too many options leads to feelings that we could have chosen better and so we are dissatisfied. Instead we need to seek for our lives to be limited by love. When we plug into Jesus we remove all the anxiety, dissatisfaction and paralysis. 

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Nothing is as Inclusive as God's Love

Nothing is as Inclusive as God’s Wondrous Love

Daily Influences to Manage, Important Thinkers, Life Paths, Parables and Miracles

What does it mean to be inclusive? Our society seems to think that this means being passive and permissive. But these are not how one should describe how God’s love is inclusive. Passive – no. Permissive- not either.  A useful analogy is to think of parents looking for a child they would like to adopt. Active not passive. They are willing to invest their time, money and hearts in the pursuit.  Not having that child affects them. And when they get the child, they cannot imagine their family without that child. They are not the same without that child.

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Where do you place your heart? If it is in anything in this world you will end up in a bad spiritual place.

Warning! Failures, Loss, Sickness – Spotlight Where You Place Your Heart

Daily Influences to Manage, Life Paths, Social Media, Virtuous Actions

Where do you place the allegiance of your heart?  Do our hearts belong to anything in this world? Not that anything in the world is bad.  But everything in this world will not last.

Failures will come. Loved ones will die. We will become sick. Our practical enterprises will end.  

Just like a healthy tree, we will be alright only if our roots extend to the source of life.

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