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Just like music lessons! Getting to heaven requires effort. You have to agonize for it.

How To Get To Heaven? Better Agonize For It!

Daily Influences to Manage, Parables and Miracles, Virtuous Actions

Our Faith is very much a gift from God. In many respects, Faith is like learning a musical instrument.  The gift of an instrument is one thing. But your ability to play is based on going for lessons. It is based on regular practice.  And if the instrument is in need of repairs, then we have to actively seek these out. It takes effort.

Jesus says you must strive for heaven. This does not entail a life of comfort. Nor should we expect heaven if our life is full of distractions and abstractions. We need to be seeking a relationship with God.  We need to be agonizing for heaven. 

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God gives us what we need to finish. Not necessarily victory.

How can God Love me? Look at my Predicament. I Am Sinking in the Mud

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

If God loves me and has a plan for my life, then should I not expect to always win in life? And yet – I end up in horrible situations. For example, think of sin or think of addictions.

How can this be God’s plan for me? Using inspirational examples, Fr Mike describes that God may not give us victory but he gives us what we need to finish. We need to recognize our deeper identity as a child of God as opposed to what is ailing us in the moment.

And we are not alone either. A cloud of witnesses follow in support of us! From saints to Jesus himself, all witness and encourage us to finish our race.

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