Hey Spouts, during the months of June and July, we will not be having new content here on the Catholic Sprouts podcast.

Instead, we will be revisiting some of my favorite weeks of content.

And here is one of those weeks.

Enjoy!

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Hello, Sprouts. Today is August 7, 2018, and this week on the Catholic Sprouts, we are talking about

the little way. Yesterday, we talked about how the little way is a path to holiness for the rest of us.

And instead of like climbing a huge, difficult mountain to get to heaven,

it's more like riding an elevator, an elevator that is the arms of Jesus Christ. Now another

part of the little way has to do with gardening. Have you ever planted a seed and watched it sprout and come up and put out

leaves and grow taller and taller? Well, let's talk about gardening a little bit today. Let's say

you have a little garden and you can plant whatever you want in that little garden. What would you plant? Would you

plant some tomatoes or cucumbers? Or maybe you'd plant some strawberry seeds so you could have strawberries

and strawberry jam later on. Well, what about flowers? Would you plant a flower? Maybe you think it would be silly to plant a flower.

I mean, what good is a flower? All a flower is going to do is bloom and then fade and then die.

And after it's dead, we won't even really know that it was there.

When you plan to flower, you don't really get any use out of it, do you? It's not like you can

eat a flower. And yet, St. Cherez, who gave us the little way, is often called the little flower. And if we want to try to get to

heaven like her, we too are called to be flowers. But why flowers? Why can't we be something more

useful like a vegetable that someone can eat?

Well, the truth is, is that God doesn't call us to be useful. And in fact, he doesn't really care how

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