You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.Viktor Frankl
Listen to the Holy Spirit and be open to changes and modifications of your dreams and plans…never forgetting that our main “mission” is to be holy and to reflect the love of Christ to every soul we meet along the way…
God’s particular mission for you.
The gift of holy moms!
Long enduring love
“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!” Jane Austen My mom is pictured below, with my dear grandmother who had a huge impact on my priestly vocation (and on my dad’s early formation)…they were both such pillars of long enduring love and endless hope!
Pride vs. vanity
“A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” Jane Austen
Avoid the superiority complex
Suffering as a gift and opportunity
Brokenness
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” Ernest Hemingway
An open heart for Kindness
Single act of kindness
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” -Amelia Earhart