Category: Daily Influences to Manage

Hurry is preventing love

You Need to Know Your Hurry is Preventing Your Love

Daily Influences to Manage, Key Dates, Life Paths, Parables and Miracles

How many of us lead lives rushing from work to family responsibilities and back. For example, we juggle our responsibilities between rushing to catch that train, getting the kids to that swimming lesson, and responding to that late email from our boss.  What we need to realize is how this hurry prevents us from living a life of love as we are called to by Jesus. In other words, pay attention and ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life. Your spiritual life will improve immensely.

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Common temptations that lead us from God

Spotlight on the Tantalizing Temptations of this World

Daily Influences to Manage, Important Thinkers, Parables and Miracles, Social Media

The temptations Jesus faced in the desert are symbolic of the temptations we face in our lives. Let’s recognize when we fall into these traps that lead us away from God. Be they sensual pleasures, the pursuit of power, and obsessions with fame, glory and honor. In looking at each of these more closely we have the opportunity to maintain our path to God.

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Use Anger for good and not bad as a Christian

Advice When You’ve Had Enough of Anger in Your Life

Daily Influences to Manage, Great People Examples to Follow, Virtuous Actions

Do you find yourself getting angry and then regretting it? Consider anger from a Christian point of view. Learn to control your anger with the practical steps provided. Watch out for actions that come from selfish frustration, unfulfilled desires and bad moods. But also note there is a time and place for anger which can do positive things in this world. 

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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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