A random reflection

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Hey guys! We realized we haven't updated the blog in a hot minute. We're really sorry. We hope y'all have been doing very well despite any hardships you may be bearing. For this week, I wanted to share a short reflection I found in my journal that I wrote a couple months ago. It's not very intellectual or anything just purely a brain dump. Not sure what y'all will think, but I hope it does make you think for a few moments. Let us know how y'all are doing; we love hearing from you and absolutely love hearing your thoughts.

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When’s the last time I’ve been grateful? Like truly grateful?

I noticed things in the moments in which I immensely happy and say, “dang, I never want to leave this.” But when’s the last time I’ve honestly turned to him and wholeheartedly realized that I don’t deserve this? I feel that for all the bad I've been through, I’m entitled to those moments, but I’m not. There’s been so many who have had less than me and have made it anyway. Where is the hope? The thought that the good is going to come? Why do we forget what happened 2000 years ago? When Jesus was hanging from a cross, did he ‘get through it’ by thinking about the resurrection, or was he fully submerged in the sorrow of our sins and his physical suffering? Sometimes it's all I can manage - looking towards the next thing. I always thought it was wrong to simply embrace suffering as it is. I always looked for hope. Or is that really hope? Just knowing it will end, knowing that I have something temporarily to look forward to? What if my hope in suffering was knowing I was experiencing it for a real, actual purpose to cleanse myself from the things of this world, or to offer it up for the souls of others, or to see His face? To know Him? I’ve been told that’s where we can continuously find Him but have ever tried?

~Catherine Siena

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Never discount the moments you're at your happiest

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