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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Becoming Flexible to Accept God's Will

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.97.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

Okay. Oh man. I wonder if you even want like all the outtakes or whatever they

0:07.0

called because dude. Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey okay we're just

0:14.8

gonna get through it. Here we go.

0:19.8

Hi my name is Brother Mike Schmitts and this is Ascension Presents. So I

0:23.6

recently got an email from a young man who came to me with a problem and the

0:27.1

problem was he really likes permanence. He dislikes change. And he was saying

0:33.2

specifically he doesn't like when relationships change. He would like relationships to be

0:37.7

permanent like with his family and he said in particular with this young woman that I would love

0:42.0

to get married to. I don't like the idea that like you know the relationship could end or even if

0:48.8

in death you know there's no marriage in heaven. So what a relationship end even there. I'm like

0:53.6

you're getting way ahead of yourself dude but be that as it may actually I was really I warned

0:59.2

him. I said in my response. I was I said I'm feeling kind of snarky right now and so my initial

1:05.1

response to your email is gonna sound really kind of snarky right now because my initial response was

1:10.0

yeah you have a tough time dealing with change. You need to get over that stuff because life is

1:15.1

change and I clarified that I really care about you and then I hear what I mean but that's the truth

1:19.6

right. Life is change. Think about this even biologically to be alive means you're growing.

1:25.5

If you stop growing you begin decaying to grow is to change. If I have a really tough time with change

1:33.4

then I'm going to need to come face to face with that and I'm gonna need to change my perspective

1:39.7

so many of us right. We're prevention oriented. You might not be that person you might not you

1:45.5

might be promotion oriented but a lot of us are prevention oriented and they've done a bunch of

1:49.1

studies on this kind of thing where people would rather not lose the hundred dollars they were given

1:55.2

than risk something to get the hundred and fifty dollars. I'd rather like just I just want to hold on

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