You're listening to Catholic Sprouts, the daily podcast for April 2, 2020. This week on the Catholic Sprouts

podcast, we have been looking at all sorts of saints, many of which you probably haven't

heard of, and seeing through each of them that we are called to get to work,

that we are each given work from God in the spiritual realm, work that will help others come to

Jesus, that will just help others around us and spread the good news of Jesus Christ,

and that we are called to do this work.

And we should avoid being lazy, especially when it comes to prayer, learning the faith, and doing

the work that God has given us. Now, today we're going to talk about a super important concept.

And that concept is this. The work that God gives you

might not seem like work, or it might not seem like what you expected God to give you.

Now here is a little story from one of my favorites, St. Therese. St. Teres once wrote and taught the novices

in the monastery where she was that we are all called to do the work of God, but you could easily

become holy through the work of picking flowers, that that might be the work that God gives you,

and that that work could be important enough in the eyes of God to bring you to heaven.

Now, doesn't that seem a little bit silly? I mean, you're not going to be saving lives by

picking flowers. You're not even out there telling others about Jesus. And yet St. Cherez, a doctor

of the church, meaning that the Pope has recognized that she had so much wisdom that we should

definitely learn from her, she said that you could get to heaven by simply

picking flowers for God. Now, what can we learn from this? Well, we can learn that the work we are

given by God, it doesn't matter what we are doing. That's not what matters. What matters is why we are doing it.

And we all know that there's a lot of different ways that we can do things. If your mom tells you to go to

your room and clean it, there's a lot of different ways that you can do that.

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