Tag: Love

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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Sacrifice is the true measure of your love for God

Sacrifice is the True Measure of Your Love of God

Key Dates, Virtuous Actions

Think of a popstar you like and being at their concert. How would your experience change if you were to be called on stage? Now, similarly, think of mass and how you are impacted by your attendance. If you are not profoundly changed by your encounter with Jesus, then you are doing something wrong. The key is your sacrifice for love of God. Just like the Magi, you must go home by a different road.

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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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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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