Fool! Is Your Life A Tragedy Better Than Shakespeare
Are you building your life to be a tragedy? Or will it be a love story between you and God? We need to decide before our time on this earth ends.
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Category: Daily Influences to Manage
The Stunning Limits of Love
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 Wondrous Love
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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Warning! Failures, Loss, Sickness – Spotlight Where You Place Your Heart
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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For a great faith in God, figure out the why
How many of us believe that God wants each of us to be a saint and also believe that it is possible? God wants you to be a saint by doing the same thing that every previous saint did. Doing seemingly mundane actions becomes extraordinary when we have the right perspective.
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The Simple Way to Find God Is Where You Fail
We all seek to be strong in our lives. Weaknesses are shunned at work and in our personal lives. But these weaknesses can make us humble to God. So, if we are attentive, we can draw closer to Him. The example of a powerful army general is used to demonstrate how good things can come from humility.
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The Amazing Karate Kid Way to Grow Your Faith
What happens when we do things that we have to do? The likely response is to go through the motions. If you are going through the motions with your religious life then you are not likely growing in Faith. With a lesson from The Karate Kid, Fr Mike gives us a powerful lesson on how to grow our Faith in God.
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