Modesty moderates and regulates all our actions, both interior and exterior, according to our vocation. Each of us are called to “let your modesty be known to all men” (Philippians 4,5).
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Have you ever had your glasses fog up with a sudden temperature change? Or perhaps condensation accumulates on your window, blocking your view of what you can see outside. This happens when I see the world around me through my limited, human perspective leading to foggy eyes of my heart.
Continue reading “Week Thirty. Clean Heart. Clear Vision.”Out of love for Your goodness, make me clean. Draw me to purity of heart, striving to live my life as an image of Your likeness. Teach me to love like You. Draw me close to You so I can see with Your eyes and value what you value. Make me know Your will and what You desire of me.
Continue reading “Week Thirty. Clean Heart. Purity.”This week we have contemplated how our mindset affects our spirit. We can advance in purity of heart or stay stuck in our limited human perspective of life. God promises to change our minds, to share in eternal joy. My part is accepting the invitation with a loving, humble, and grateful heart. Practices from other faith traditions can help me walk the path of holiness. I particularly like this one from the Jewish tradition, the Hasidic mystics. The eighteenth-century Hasidic Rabbi Hayim Heikel of Amdur, active in Lithuania, counseled conscious remembrance of God first thing in the morning. Rabbis Or N. Rose and Ebn D.
Continue reading “Week Twenty-Nine. Mindset. Looking for God’s Goodness and Weekly Reflection Summary.”How do you walk through life? With confidence and faith that everything is according to God’s plan or living in anxiety just waiting for the next proverbial shoe to drop? My faith is a mindset where I believe in God’s goodness and promises. God directs me to move through my life with physical, spiritual, and emotional confidence. He instructs me to trust that nothing can do real harm to me. For while the Lord sometimes protects our bodies, He always protects our souls. That is pretty amazing. Our souls are always being prepared for our journey of eternal life.
Continue reading “Week Twenty-Nine. My Mindset. Eternal Confidence.”God is present in the everyday moments of our life. So often I look for ways to dramatically change the world. It is good to dream and ponder these things but not if they are a distraction to living the life in front of me well.
Continue reading “Week Twenty-Nine. My Mindset. Nourishment.”Temperance is the virtue which moderates in us the inordinate desire for sensible pleasure, keeping it within the limits assigned by faith and reason. Sin has produced in us the great discord by which the inferior part tends to rebel against the superior, and craves what is contrary to the spirit. We will never be able to defend ourselves against the attractions of pleasure without the help of this virtue, which God has infused in our souls for the express purpose of enabling us to regulate our disordered tendency to pleasure.
Continue reading “Week Twenty-Nine. My Mindset. Eternal Perspective.”We are called to a different way of life. One that reorders our thoughts, impacting our actions and softening our hearts in order to understand love in its purest state. Christ’s love attracts us to a different way of life, a life of simple poverty.
Continue reading “Week Twenty-Nine. My Mindset. Choosing the Better Way.”As we seek to follow Christ and bring light in this world, we have choices to make. The simple day-to-day choices we make eventually add up to the sum total of our life. I’m given the invitation to follow the way, the truth, and the light. Does my thinking trust that this is enough?
Continue reading “Week Twenty-Nine. My Mindset. Invitation to Trust.”Faith is believing in the unseen until it can be seen or known. We are given faith by our birthright but living in our humanity, it can be hard at times to practice this, especially when it comes to valuing and accepting my body. I’ve always struggled with accepting my body and the current limitations of aging are no exception. But by faith, I’m surrendering to acceptance that I’m where I need to be, right now, exactly where I am. Whether I weigh more than I did six months ago, can’t do the yoga that I love due to a bad knee or am recovering from Covid and need to take it easy, I’m accepting I’m where I need to be today. Acceptance is a mindset.
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