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By Kimberly Demont
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about the direction of my life. More specifically, I have been marveling at how easy it can be to find yourself so many mess-ups away from where you once wanted to be in your relationship with God, that you're not even sure which tiny decision to disobey first veered you off-course – or whether you now have the heart to overcome your own subsequent apathy. If that seems like a depressing way to kick off this article, imagine the weight in the pit of my stomach when recently, I was called to examine the way I've been living. I realized I've allowed myself to become so cold that in a very short amount of time, were I to continue along the path I've been forging, I may very well end up throwing away the only thing that has ever made sense to me. Suddenly, just when I am supposed to be learning and growing more than ever, approaching the prime of my existence, my heart knowledge has been reduced to this simple but sorry truth: I don't have the first clue about living my life right. What's infinitely worse is the fact that even if I did know which steps next to take, I no longer feel positive (like I used to, as recently as a year and a half ago) that I could muster the resolution necessary to love God and others with the passion I wish I had.
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By Susan McFarland
I believe that a Christian's most important personal responsibility is
to continue to mature in our love towards God in such a way that it
changes how we love and serve others. Real change has to have hands and
feet attached to it. This lesson came home to me in a very personal
way several years ago when I had the opportunity to assist in a small
town’s recovery immediately following Hurricane Katrina. The impact of
those events will remain with me the rest of my life.
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By LisaMarie Goetz
If someone had told me a few years ago that I would be taking a course in Monasticism at Wheaton College and that it would serve to deeply impact and change me, I must admit I would have been quite surprised. I confess that I had several presuppositions about these things before coming to Wheaton. The course included a retreat based upon monastic principles which frankly had me a bit hesitant at first. Although I grew up on Long Island, which is a heavily Roman Catholic area, I generally viewed Catholicism as “dead religion,” based mostly upon out dated traditionalism. I certainly would have viewed the study of monasticism and contemplative spirituality as something irrelevant and I did not feel any desire to look into these practices to see if they might enrich my own spirituality. However, the Lord has taken me on a journey in this area and I can now see that I personally had some incorrect ideas about the core values of the Catholic faith, its traditions, and about Catholic individuals in particular.
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By: Jenni Demont
When I was a little girl my aunt used to tell me a story about an old woman and her pig. In the story the old woman went to the market to buy a little pig, and on the way home they came to a stile, which is a type of crossing made up of a series of steps that allows people to climb over a fence. Somehow, I feel like I understand that story better now because it helps me understand a difficult time that I have recently come through in my life.
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