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Pentecost, the Ascension, and Daniel 7 - these are all tightly linked. It engenders hope to think about these connections. We love hope! We need it. The Spirit goes forth to renew all the Earth. Let's invite it to start with each of us. Daniel 7 promised that great things that would happen when the Messiah returned. All power and kingship would be given to one like the son of man. That was fulfilled in the ascension when Christ went to Heaven to take up his kingship and start reigning. One of his first ACTS (like Acts 2) was to send the Holy Spirit from Heaven to Earth. The great interlocking of God's creations of Heaven and Earth is well underway. That's what we are part of; the reign of the King in his kingdom. The Holy Spirit is "power from on high" for us to participate in that and be comforted. Let's transform our hearts and minds to be agents of the Kingdom.

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Lisa Mladinich helps people grow exponentially in their God-given talents. She's a Catholic coach, mom, bestselling author, and an inspiration to listen to. Finding and (loving to be) using your strengths is primarily, and this is really important to keep in mind, for getting closer to God. It also helps you understand your weaknesses. It's so rewarding to be more of who God meant us to be: life is better, we are better, we are closer to God, we do better in our relationships, and we step up and pitch in to do our part in the Kingdom of God.

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Making your contribution is… awesome! There's something about you that's so unique that only YOU can make that contribution to building up the kingdom of God. As you transform God's creation, you are transformed. Because you are cooperating with the Holy Spirit that's working on you even as you work with it to do your special thing. It's a little intimidating to think there's a role that is just for each of us, but it's going to be a role for which we are well-suited to play. Because God knows each of us very well and has some things "planned out for us in advance".

As mentioned in the podcast:

Paul: A Biography by N. T. Wright, pub. HarperOne, 2018

Christifideles Laici, An apostolic exhortation by John Paul II, 1988

We are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. - Ephesians 2:10

The Church is like a living body with many very different vocations. Every member offers a totally unique contribution on behalf of the whole body…. The faithful engage in an ever-clearer discovery of one's vocation and the ever-greater willingness to live it so as to fulfill one's mission. God calls me and sends me forth as a laborer in his vineyard. He calls me and sends me forth to work for the coming of his Kingdom in history. This personal vocation and mission define the dignity and the responsibility of each member of the lay faithful. -Christifideles Laici, at 20 & 58, paraphrased

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Self-acceptance is one of the keys to life and is indispensable to Christian life. If you want to really change, you need self-acceptance in order to do so: it always precedes real change. Self-criticism is a common but weak alternative practice that many people embrace. Repeat: self-criticism is a bad habit that's puny and wears you down. Self-acceptance, on the other hand, lets you see the same things in yourself, but without flinching. St. Francis de Sales practiced self-acceptance when he counseled us "not to fret over our own imperfections and to say to ourselves: Well, my dear friend, here we are again! Let us get up again and call on God's mercy and hope to help us. Be of good heart, be on guard moving forward, and with God's help we will do better!" Listen now and join us!!

Mentioned in the podcast:

Ethical Excellence; Philosophers, Psychologists, and Real-Life Exemplars Show Us How to Achieve It

by Heidi Giebel

Rebuilt: Awakening the Faithful, Reaching the Lost, and Making Church Matter

by Fr. Michael White and Tom Corcoran

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With acceptance, even though it doesn't change objective reality, the attitude of your heart is very different. You can enter into that reality with faith, hope, and love and find God operating there. You can find your peace which is always vital. You own your freedom and agency. Getting to a place of acceptance is often a key in coaching. It's also a spiritual discipline. Paradoxically, more acceptance means more freedom. Freedom, properly understood, creates agency. Now positive change is enabled.

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I am reliably informed that with great beer comes great responsibility. OK. Certainly with Freedom comes Responsibility. You have AGENCY as a person. Freedom is for agency. I am sometimes quick to throw in the towel and say: I have no power here, no options, no choices, no mas. But I am always an AGENT; I am an actor as in "active"; I am a cause. Not THE cause, but A cause. John Paul II compares the attitude of "I am a cause" to "something is happening to me or in me over which I have no influence." You are God's representative on Earth. You have agency. What does that mean?

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Freedom is FOR what? We hear a lot about what we've been freed FROM, like sin and death (yay for that!), and not so much about what we are free FOR. Freedom is the foundational bedrock for the human spirit and central to your Christian walk. There are a lot of misconceptions and failures of imagination when it comes to thinking about freedom. We use this podcast season to clear some of those up so you can have, hold, and step into your wonderful Christian freedom.

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Apologies are just a step in a relationship, perhaps a way to get a conversation moving again. Sometimes they don't seem to "fit" the situation. Or we sense that the other person will use them to make us feel more guilty or to manipulate us. We talk about complex situations and how an apology might fit in. There are also reasons that we and "they" resist making apologies. Knowing how to decide if, when, and where to make your apology is an art. Get some ideas and grounding by listening to this episode.

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Happy Easter, everyone! What a great season to be in. Let the party begin! This is your bonus Easter episode. We spend a lot of time and energy thinking about what's gonna happen when we die. We don't, really, as Christians, spend nearly enough time thinking about what's going to happen when we're resurrected. The gospel message directs us to this new kind of life that Jesus has opened up for us in his cross and resurrection. The question of "what's gonna happen when I die" is, scripturally, turning the gospel on its head because what the gospel directs us to is "what's going to happen when I am resurrected" (knowing Jesus was the first to do that). Join us!

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A good apology can clear the air. A bad apology will make everything worse. Learning how to make a good apology is a relationship-saver. But nobody tells us how to do these things. I guess that's why most of us are not very good at apologies! What a shame! We dig into to-do's and to-dont's on this episode. If you're like us, you will discover that you have some apology habits that need an upgrade.

Email us with an example of an apology that DID or DIDN'T work for you.

Resource: Harriet Lerner's book, Why won't you apologize?

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