What to Do When You Get Interrupted
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
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🗓️ 15 July 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
An interruption is anything that takes our attention away from our primary task. We may think our days are filled with interruptions: people cutting us off in traffic, a slow internet connection, etc. But in order to truly be interrupted, we have to have a primary task. We live in a world that is constantly trying to distract us, so much so that if we really start to think about what our primary task for today is, we may not be able to come up with one. What if we lived every day with the primary task of strengthening our relationship with Christ, and hedging our way towards eternity in Heaven?
Today, Fr. Mike explains the purpose interruptions have in our lives, and how they can even guide us back to our primary task of reaching Heaven.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up? How you doing? Good to see you. |
| 0:12.1 | Hi, my name is Prada Mike Schmitz and this is The Sinship Resents. A number of years ago |
| 0:15.0 | we did a homily series called Interrupted and it was all about interruptions, right? |
| 0:18.5 | All about the fact that man interruptions are, well I think they're kind of the worst because |
| 0:23.2 | especially if you have somewhere to go you have something to do and someone gets in your way so we |
| 0:27.0 | have to, what do we do with those? Because they're going to happen to us all of the time. So on iTunes |
| 0:32.2 | and bulldogcaflex.org we have these this homily series posted is called Interrupted and in that |
| 0:36.9 | series we kind of came up with the definition for what an interruption is. An interruption is anything |
| 0:42.3 | that takes my focus or takes my attention away from my primary task. So let me say that again so |
| 0:47.2 | that you don't have to rewind this. An interruption is anything that takes my attention or takes my |
| 0:51.2 | focus away from my primary task. Now in order to be interrupted I need to have a primary task, right? |
| 0:57.2 | In order to have my attention taken away from my primary task I need to have a primary task. |
| 1:02.1 | One of the problems with us in general as human beings and especially us maybe in the Western world |
| 1:08.1 | is we're so distracted and we have so many options that we have never really chosen a primary |
| 1:13.6 | task. We don't really have a priority for our life. Your primary task in any given moment could |
| 1:17.8 | be anything right? It could be like well my primary task at nighttime is to sleep. That is a great |
| 1:22.0 | primary task on a random Thursday evening you know might be like hanging out with friends or |
| 1:26.0 | spending time with your family then maybe that's your pizza night. I don't know whatever you know |
| 1:29.2 | that your primary task of that moment is that but the overarching primary task for Christians |
| 1:34.4 | is to live that dynamic relationship with Jesus in such a way that it not only transforms lifts |
| 1:42.2 | this life but transforms your eternity. Again the primary task of Christians is to live in such a |
| 1:48.0 | dynamic relationship not only with Jesus but the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit with |
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