Day: July 17, 2020

Flip it

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You might have heard about the top 5 regrets of the dying by Bronnie Ware.

If not, find a summary below:

  1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
  2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
  3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
  4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
  5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

The good news is that we can flip it. Instead of wishing, we can choose to –

  1. Embrace possibilities.
  2. Create time to recreate (or have fun or play).
  3. Speak our truth.
  4. Cultivate meaningful relationships.
  5. And give ourselves an “A” for continually working on being our best selves.

– Osasu Oviawe

Prioritize

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Matthew 12:1-8
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath.” He said to them, “Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the law how on the sabbath the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless? I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. And if you had known what this means, `I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.”

Homily:

Rituals are not the key to being in God’s presence.

Love God, love self, love neighbor.

Anything that promotes love is good. Anything that does not promote love is a distraction.

Prioritize love.