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🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Jesus tells in the Gospels, "Love your neighbor as yourself." But what if you struggle to love yourself? How can we pour ourselves out for others if we are not first filled up?
Today, Fr. Mike challenges us properly order our love for others, namely wiling the good of the other by first willing our own good and setting clear boundaries so that we can love more fully.
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0:00.0 | Okay, I know it's dark. I have no idea what to do about it. They hate treat yourself. Here we go. |
0:06.2 | Wow, it's so dark. |
0:07.7 | Hey, treat yourself. |
0:09.2 | God. |
0:10.9 | Gosh, so dark. |
0:12.5 | Hey, treat yourself. |
0:13.4 | God. |
0:15.2 | I'm your name's Father Mark Smiths and this is the sense of presence. |
0:17.8 | So one of the questions that comes up again and again in the Christian life is this. |
0:22.1 | I know that I'm called to love others, but at what point, |
0:26.3 | what where's the line between loving others and taking care of myself? You know, we've talked |
0:31.2 | about this so many times that ever since the fall, we know that love always involves sacrifice, |
0:35.9 | right? So love always is going to cost us something. So for those of you who have embraced that, |
0:41.5 | for those above who have said, okay, I know that. I know that love involves sacrifice, |
0:46.2 | but I know that at the same time, there must be some kind of like place where I take care of myself |
0:52.3 | as well, but I, here's the thing. I don't want to love to the point of being extinguished, right? |
0:58.2 | To the love of the point, to the love point where I'm a, you know, a doormat. Also at the same time, |
1:03.4 | I don't want to just live for myself. I know that I'm called to live for others. I'm called to live |
1:07.0 | for Christ. So what's the line? Spoiler. I'm not going to at the end of this video say, here is the |
1:12.0 | line right here because we realized that that line shifts with different locations with different |
1:17.2 | seasons in a person's life. If you have an infant on the line of self-care is going to be kind of |
1:21.6 | low and the live other care is going to be very, very high versus maybe you're an empty nester and |
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