Tag: Fruits of the Holy Spirit

God is love. If you are a crabby person, you don't know God

Bottom Line Crabby People, You Don’t Know God

Important Thinkers, Parables and Miracles, Virtuous Actions

If you are a crabby miserable person, you are missing the whole point. Jesus has come to give us joy.

During this great sermon, Bishop Barron describes 3 fundamental spiritual truths. The very nature and being of God. God’s love comes first, and we must respond to his love.

And the upshot of all these is that Jesus tells us, “I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy might be complete.”

The flag of the Holy Spirit is joy. Let that joy be in you.

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Fruits of the Holy Spirit are your guide in career planning

Awesome Career Advice from the Holy Spirit

Daily Influences to Manage, Great People Examples to Follow, Parables and Miracles, Virtuous Actions

How did you choose your career? For most people it’s a product of luck and circumstance. We have an opportunity early in our working lives and that becomes something we build into a career.  This presentation by Bishop Barron is something I wish I had seen earlier in life. Instead I was guided in career choices by things like the Myers-Briggs assessment. We need to change our perspective on career discussions. The egotism in career advice should be alarming. Instead of what can I accomplish? Instead of what will make me most happy? We should be asking in what way can I be most loving! In what way can I be most generous! The fruit of the Holy Spirit described in Galatians 5 is the most compelling career advice I have ever heard. And I say this after spending several decades in Human Resources.  

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