Getting to the Roots of Our Weaknesses
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Do you find yourself repeatedly struggling with the same weaknesses? Something deeper may lie beneath those challenges. Dr. Sri emphasizes the importance of addressing the deeper roots of our sins and struggles and bringing our wounds to God to experience true healing and transformation
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Our weaknesses and sins have deep roots that we can't dissolve on our own—we need God's healing hand to heal our wounds.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edwards III and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:12.3 | I've recently been reading a book on marriage by a Protestant author Dan Allender, and in this book, |
| 0:17.5 | he writes about how in close intimate relationships like close friendships, |
| 0:21.6 | family, but especially in marriage, the same kind of relationship issues, challenges, |
| 0:27.9 | problems tend to come up over and over again. |
| 0:30.6 | I don't know if that's your experience where, take marriage, for example, like you keep having |
| 0:34.4 | the same argument. |
| 0:35.5 | Maybe it's different topics, but it's the same |
| 0:37.8 | kind of thing or there's same kind of conflicts or certain things that we don't want to talk about, |
| 0:44.0 | but they end up coming out in other weird dysfunctional ways. You have the same fears, the same hurts, |
| 0:48.9 | and they keep coming up over and over again. Why is that? Why can't things just be better? Is it because we just need more |
| 0:56.6 | virtue? We just got to be more virtuous. We got to try harder. We got to pray harder. Do more novenas. |
| 1:02.1 | Allender in his book says it's kind of like weeds. You know, I think about right now in my house, |
| 1:07.3 | we have a, on the side of our house house this gravel area that connects the front driveway to |
| 1:12.5 | the backyard in this gravel area we've just been traveling so much we've not been taking care of it |
| 1:17.1 | and it is just overrun by weeds right now and i know i could go out there and just quickly you know |
| 1:22.0 | put on some gloves and just are pulling up you know pulling these weeds up really quick and it |
| 1:26.8 | would be a quick fix but i know they're going to come back in just a week or two. |
| 1:31.3 | And I'm going to have the same problem again. Why? |
| 1:34.3 | Because I'm just pulling at the surface of the weeds. |
| 1:37.3 | I'm not pulling at the roots. I'm not getting to the roots. |
| 1:41.3 | And this is a key point about growing in virtue and finding healing in our relationships, |
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