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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

How To Receive a Gift Well (in 4 Steps)

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.97.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Do you know how to receive a gift? It's not as easy as it sounds. It might sound like gift-giving is the lesson to learn, but receiving can be so much more difficult—and just as important.

Today, Fr. Mike gives us 4 steps to successfully receive the gifts all around us.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

We're kind of in the season of gift to it, the season of thanks for the season of presents.

0:03.8

I don't know if we're in the season of presents yet, maybe you don't get any presents.

0:06.9

Reminds me.

0:16.0

How many is Father Mike Schmitz?

0:17.0

And this is Ascension Presents.

0:18.1

A number of years ago, I was Christmas and it was Christmas, so presents were happening.

0:22.7

I got a bike. It was great. It was one of the fat tire bikes.

0:25.5

Like super awesome. Like really incredible.

0:27.6

And it's from my parents. And at one point, my mom said she's like, I'm wheeled out.

0:32.5

Oh my gosh, this is incredible. This is an amazing bike.

0:34.8

And she said, do you like it? I say, absolutely. This is great. Thank you so much.

0:38.3

And she said, well, you use it. And I said, no.

0:42.1

And she's like, what? It was a bad day. Bad scene.

0:44.9

Not because of my mom, but because my sister and my brother-in-law had driven

0:49.1

hours and hours multiple times back and forth between my hometown and the Twin Cities

0:54.4

and the St. Paul Minneapolis to get this bike. And they had gone way out of the way to get this bike.

0:58.7

And I was like, I love it. I'm telling you, thank you so much.

1:02.8

But I'm also telling you that I have no place to store it.

1:05.2

Like you probably, you guys, you've seen my garage. The garage is what we have our mass.

1:09.9

No matter how great this bike is, I can't keep it because there's no place for me to put it.

1:13.8

That was a rough scene for I think. I don't know if I don't know those two particular family members

1:18.0

have ever been that mad at me or upset with me as they were. And rightly so.

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