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Hey there, Sprouds. Today is Monday, February 4th, 2019. This week on the Catholic Spouts

podcast, we are talking about how we need to trust in God's plan. And we have some remarkable

saints who are celebrating feast days this week that are wonderful examples of how

profoundly sometimes we are called to trust in God's plan. But today I want to talk about

what we need to do after figuring out studying all of these virtues in the past three weeks.

So the past three weeks, we have talked about the virtues of faith, hope, and love. We talked about how we need to be bold in our belief

in Jesus and know that it is fact. We need to hope for heaven and put all of our trust in God.

And finally, how we need to love like Jesus

loved on the cross, sacrificing everything out of love for God and our brothers and sisters.

Today, we are going to talk about how even if we are given these virtues, even if we strive

to acquire them, we need to remember one important

fact, and is this, we are not called to the easy life.

We are not called to the easy life.

Now, in past generations, this was probably obvious. Before all of our modern conveniences

and our comfortable lifestyles, no one was called to the easy life. Everyone had to work

or hunt and gather just to eat. You had to build your own houses. I mean, life was hard for generations and generations

before modern technology changed everything. And it only has been very recently, and only in

certain parts of the world, that people live as comfortably as we live here in the United States.

And although sometimes there's this part of us that tells us to seek things that are comfortable, to, you know, be comfortable, seek comfort,

seek a full stomach and a nice place to sit and fun entertainment, there is nothing bad

about these things as they are. The only thing about them

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