The Value of Failing

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever feel like you are failing or coming up short in the different areas of your life? Perhaps, you are struggling at work or in your marriage. In this episode, Dr. Edward Sri uses the wisdom of St. Therese of Lisieux to reveal the goodness that can come from acknowledging our failings and shortcomings.

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When we encounter our weaknesses and shortcomings, it reminds us, “Lord, I need you.”

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:14.4	I remember a few years ago when my kids came home after a soccer game and he was a little
0:18.6	discouraged.
0:20.2	He didn't have a great game and he just felt badly because he knew he could play better
0:24.3	and he wanted to but it just wasn't going for him.
0:26.9	He wasn't connecting passes like he normally does.
0:29.5	He didn't hit his shots.
0:31.0	He kicked the ball out of bounds and it was just frustrated with himself because he just
0:35.4	didn't have a great game.
0:37.4	Do you have an area of your life right now?
0:39.5	Were you feel that way?
0:41.2	Were you feel like you're not playing at the level you know you need to play at?
0:45.2	Maybe it's with your parenting right now as a mom is a dad and you feel like you're
0:49.7	just not giving your best.
0:51.6	You're falling short.
0:53.8	Maybe it's in your spiritual life.
0:54.8	There's something going on in your spiritual life in your prayer life and you feel like
0:57.9	you're just failing.
0:59.8	It's just not going well or maybe in your moral life there's a certain sin, a certain weakness
1:05.3	that just keeps coming out.
1:07.0	You just keep losing your temper or you just keep complaining about your spouse or you
1:11.5	just fall into discouragement too much or you fall into lustful thoughts or you fall
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