Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life.

Have you ever been convinced in your mind that you should do something, something that

would be good for you, but you just don't do it?

You know this would be good, but you hesitate, and you just don't act in.

It could be something simple, like, I need to take better care of my health, so I need

to work out or eat healthier food, but you just don't do it, or I should go to bed

earlier.

Yeah, I get more sleep, and you just don't do it, or maybe there's a part of your life

you want to change.

Deep down, you know, you just need to change, and there's a certain habit you have, a certain

pattern of living, and you want to break free from it.

You know, maybe you tell yourself, I just need to stop losing my temper with the kids.

I lose my patients with them, or I need to stop losing patients with my spouse.

I should be kinder, and more forgiving with my spouse, or maybe I spend too much time

on social media.

I'm just on my phone all the time, and I tell myself I only look for a little bit, but

I end up spending a lot more time than I should, and I don't, I'm not really present

to the people around me, and I just really need to break free from the whole social media

has over me, or maybe I just live in anxiety a lot.

I just, you know, I just live with a lot of fear.

I'm just worried about how this is going to work out, and this is going to work out,

and I'm just always anxious and feeling like I have to manage every detail because I'm

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