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In 2014, I am facilitating a 12-week interactive online course in contemplative prayer and action for priests with Saint Luke Institute. Please visit SLIconnect.org to learn more: https://www.sliconnect.org/product/living-god-program-contemplative-life-2/
In 2014, I am facilitating a 12-week interactive online course in contemplative prayer and action for priests with Saint Luke Institute. Please visit SLIconnect.org to learn more: https://www.sliconnect.org/product/living-god-program-contemplative-life-2/
Wednesday 25th Week OT
St. Luke’s Institute
September 24, 2014
WHAT’S YOUR WALKING
STICK? ++++++++++++++++
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Ask
yourself, “What is my walking stick?”
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You
know, that one thing you find most difficult to abandon for the sake of the
gospel
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Perhaps
it is a relationship that leads you into compromising God’s word
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Addiction
that corrodes presence of HS in ur spirt,
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An
influential position that undermines your ability to let God be God
EXAMPLES OF WALKING
STICKS +++++++++++++++++
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The
advice Jesus offers in this gospel is a necessary bylaw of discipleship
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Beatitudes
put it as: “Blessed R poor in spirit”
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Point
is that unless we are free of attachments we are not able to walk with Jesus
Christ
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Walking
sticks, sacks, food, $, clothes weigh us down; prevent us fr keeping up w/
fast-moving J
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There
is no way we can devote ourselves to our stuff and still have energy and vision
for the gospel walk
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The
virtue of poverty is about not letting anything own us except the Lord
ANOTHER WALKING
STICK +++++++++++++++++++++
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That
walking stick can represent the place our mind wanders when we have nothing
else on our minds: work, shopping, health, sports
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Important
2 take inventory of r lives
occasionally
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In
the language of this gospel, we look to see what kind of stuff we have picked
up along the journey since our last check
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Jesus
invites us to name and abandon those things and follow him
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It
is high time to release the grip we have on our personal walking sticks
CONCLUSION ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Pilgrim
people travel very light w/ another virtue that replaces that walking stick,
the virtue of hope
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Hope
allows us to believe that we don’t need a crutch on which to lean
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We
can rely on the strength of our savior to keep us walking
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Just
like a child learning to ride a bike, the day comes when we learn how to
balance our lives without anything to lean on except Jesus Christ
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A
walking stick is not substitute for his hand
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