How to Be a Steward

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.9 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Which is better, being an owner or a steward? Fr. Mike reminds us of the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30) as he points out how seeing ourselves as an owner is not as great as it seems. When we see ourselves as the owner of something, we hold onto it more closely for fear of losing it. When that thing is taken from us, we may become resentful.

Our lives are not our own, our bodies are not our own, our homes are not our own. Not even our children are ours. God owns all of these things, and we have done nothing to deserve them. God has entrusted them to us. If we see everything we have as a gift from God, we will always have a reason to be thankful.

In our culture, we may have been conditioned to think being owners is the American Dream, but being a steward is much better.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Smith and this is The Sension Presents.
0:06.6	So there are, I think there are two ways of looking at the world.
0:09.3	There's two ways of looking at your stuff.
0:10.5	There's two ways of looking at yourself, your body, your time.
0:12.9	Basically everything you've been given.
0:14.5	One is as an owner.
0:16.5	Like so all my stuff is my possession, right?
0:18.1	I own it all.
0:19.2	So I own my body.
0:20.9	I own my time.
0:22.7	I own all the gifts that I've been given.
0:24.1	They're all mine.
0:25.1	They're, I'm the possessor of my stuff.
0:29.1	It's one way of looking at the world, one way of looking at my stuff.
0:31.4	And so what do I do?
0:32.4	Is since it's mine, I do what I want with it, right?
0:36.2	Even since it's mine, I might like parse it out and share it with other people.
0:39.4	Since it's mine, I might even let God have some of it because it's mine.
0:42.8	The other way of looking at the world, looking at my life, looking at my stuff, is as a steward,
0:47.2	not an owner, but a steward.
0:49.1	In that case, my stuff has been entrusted to me.
0:52.0	It's not even my stuff.
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