If You’re Not Feeling Loved
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
If you’re not feeling loved by someone you love, take courage in the story of Leah in Genesis.
Jacob, Leah’s husband, did not love her. In fact, what’s even worse, he loved her sister, Rachel, instead. Leah named her first three sons out of her hope and desire for her husband to love her, thinking if she bore him sons he would love him. She named her first “Reuben” which means, “Look, a son,” saying, “Now my husband will love me.” She named her second son “Simeon” which means “listening” because she felt the Lord heard her prayer for Jacob to love her. She named her third son “Levi” which means “joined together” because she believed this time her husband will finally be joined to her.
By the time she had her fourth son, she named him Judah, which means “may God be praised.” She finally stopped trying to make Jacob love her, and instead she let go and let God take over. It’s no coincidence that Jesus would be born from the line of Judah.
Some people love people the way they know how to love, and the beloved just doesn’t notice. A father may love her daughter through acts of service rather than words of affirmation or quality time.
Others may simply not love you, but that does not mean you’re unlovable.
You’re chosen by God for a reason only you can know. Do not wait for someone else to give you the love that God the Father has already given you.
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| 0:00.0 | Like, ta-ta-ta, bim-bim, ta-bim, bim-bim. |
| 0:03.4 | How my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and this is Ascent to Presents. |
| 0:14.6 | So I was speaking with someone recently, and they shared a bit of their story, and |
| 0:17.9 | a bit of the story was really painful. |
| 0:20.1 | The painful part was they have a sibling and, um, sleep two brothers, right, and their |
| 0:26.9 | dad clearly loved one of their brothers and didn't love them. |
| 0:32.5 | One of his brothers, right? |
| 0:34.2 | Two brothers? |
| 0:35.2 | One was loved by their dad, and the other one was like, yeah, he doesn't even, he seems |
| 0:39.0 | like every time we try to, it tries to talk to me, it is a struggle for him, but he has |
| 0:42.8 | this great relationship with my brother, and I just, it hurts me every time that I just, |
| 0:49.4 | it's clear to me that my dad doesn't love me. |
| 0:54.3 | What do I do? |
| 0:55.3 | And they were saying, it hurts every time what do I do? |
| 0:58.8 | You know, this could be different between guys and their dads or moms, and women and their, |
| 1:02.9 | and their dads and moms. |
| 1:03.9 | It could be kind of a different situation, so I, I want to kind of, hopefully address |
| 1:07.4 | that at least a little bit. |
| 1:08.7 | But I think the first thing to understand is, um, there are times, just like, just, this |
| 1:13.2 | isn't helpful, but it's, it's reality. |
| 1:15.2 | There are times when the people who are supposed to love us just don't love us. |
| 1:19.2 | There's also times when the people who, um, are supposed to love us well don't love us |
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