BE HAPPY: Stop feeling like a victim and become the author of your own faith!
Among The Lilies
Cameron Fradd
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
It may be that he can no longer stand on his feet and suffering has shaped his character, but this speech by Pope Francis a few days ago is simply AMAZING!
"You can have flaws, be anxious and even be angry, but do not forget that your life is the greatest enterprise in the world. Only you can stop it from failing.
You are appreciated, admired and loved by so many.
Remember that being happy is not having a sky without storm, a road without accidents, a job without effort, a relationship without disappointments.
“To be happy is to stop feeling like a victim and become the author of your own fate.”
It's walking through deserts, but being able to find an oasis deep in the soul.
It's thanking God every morning for the miracle of life.
It’s kissing your children, cuddling your parents, having poetic moments with your friends, even when they hurt us.
"Being happy is letting the creature that lives in each of us live, free, joyful and simple.
You have the maturity to be able to say: "I've made mistakes." It's having the courage to say I'm sorry.
It's having the sense to say, "I need you."
Is having the ability to say, "I love you."
May your life become a garden of opportunities for happiness... that in spring he may be a lover of joy and in winter a lover of wisdom.
"And when you make a mistake, start over. Because only then will you be in love with life. You'll discover that being happy isn't having a perfect life. But use tears to irrigate tolerance. Use your defeats to train your patience.
"Use your mistakes with the serenity of the sculptor. Use pain to tune into pleasure. Use obstacles to open the windows of intelligence. Never give up ... Above all never give up on the people that love you. Never give up on being happy, because life is an incredible spectacle."
Thank you, Pope Francis for these words. Please God help me to focus on the lovely sky, not just the storm & let my pain turn into pleasure. If you are suffering my friend you are NOT alone!!! Know of my prayers & turn to the Lord!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to Among the Lilies. I am happy to chat with you today. I |
| 0:07.5 | was going to record a couple days ago, but I was having a really bad day. It was like tomorrow, |
| 0:11.9 | I'll record because I'll feel better. And then I did it. And then I'm like tomorrow, but tomorrow |
| 0:17.0 | will never come. So I'm just going to record today, even though I'm not feeling great. |
| 0:21.3 | I just want to thank you so much. All of you for your prayers and your support. I |
| 0:26.3 | I find it really hard to be sick and not feeling well. And my brain not working well. And I don't |
| 0:33.7 | know, you guys have just been amazing and beautiful. I read something the other day. I don't even know |
| 0:38.2 | where I got it from, but it was Pope Francis talking. And someone said, I don't know if it's because |
| 0:44.0 | he's suffering and can't even stand in the pain, but that's where he's coming from. But he just |
| 0:48.9 | so beautifully kind of spoke into our brokenness. And so I shared it on Instagram. So some of you |
| 0:55.9 | may have seen it. Hello from Oregon. Hello. So some of you may have seen on Instagram, but I know |
| 1:02.1 | not all the alt or over on Instagram. So I wanted to go over with you and just kind of share some |
| 1:07.3 | of the ways that it really just touched my heart and is inspiring me. I'm trying, I'm on new |
| 1:15.7 | medication. So I am working through I put up a picture of a Instagram and I said that I was at |
| 1:21.5 | the chiropractor trying to get some pain relief. And most everyone was amazing and beautiful and |
| 1:26.8 | really nice. And saying, I'm praying for you. I also have Nassau activation syndrome or I also |
| 1:32.6 | have chronic Lyme or EDS or IVS or endometriosis, whatever, the plethora of things. And they're |
| 1:44.0 | beautiful and really nice. But one person was like, you should go to a real doctor, a chiropractor |
| 1:48.3 | is not going to help you. I go to a real doctor too. I think when people are sick and it's been |
| 1:57.7 | like a chronic thing and it's been going on for a long time, it's hard for others to have patients |
| 2:02.4 | with you. And I get that. I get that. Like I know when I went and my hung out with my family over |
| 2:10.8 | the summer in Texas and one of my sisters was like, how can we tell us like how bad you are? |
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