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R. We leave behind us a trail of things
                    
we did 
                
God calls us to love and build His
                    
Kingdom 
Humility is truth 
                
When we can't enjoy precious
                    
moments then let go and move
                    
onto the next thing  we can
                    
become angry and try to possess
                    
others and block the Father's
                    
will doing what He wants
                    
us to do next 
                
We have to learn to hold on and
                    
let go  hold on, let go 
                
If we indulge too much in
                    
things hurting our bodies
                    
to have a good time 
                    
the letting go is complicated
                    
by hangovers, overeating 
                    
sugar highs and lows  because
                    
of misuse of good things, we
                    
over indulged in to have
                    
a "good time"  staying
                    
up too late  not letting
                    
a good thing go
                
After the ball is over is an
                    
old song  with lots of
                    
truths 
Song: Little Child

               
		
R. Let go, Let go you hold
                
on so tight 
                    
Let go means we know
                
how to go in and out of doors 
                
We discipline ourselves to
                
do God's will  in joy and
                
suffering 
                    
Fr. Carter would say over and
                
over again 
                    
Doing God's will  not
                
too much of a good thing 
                
not too little 
                    
If we don't let go to do God's
                
will we block God's will
                
and block others doing God's
                
will when we try to force
                
our way on them  disharmony
                
rebelling against God's will 
                
blocking others who want to
                
do God's will because of our
                
willfulness 
                    
Satan wants us to do
                
our will  be willful  over 
                
indulge  block others from doing
                
God's will 
                    
God has a plan  we are to learn
                
to hold on to what He wants
                
and then let go even if we
                
are having fun and want more 
                
just doing all things like
                
Mary  perfect handmaid
                
of the Lord  to please our
                
heavenly Father 
                    
One day at a time  doing
                
what God wants at every
                
moment 
God is the boss 
                    
We have to want to do God's
                
will  all the time 
Surrender to God's plan 
Put God first in our lives 
                
We walk in humility 
    
 
  
ELEVEN
Other Christian Virtues (excerpt)3 This is not to say that we are not to improve upon our essential structure as indicated; it is rather a question of not striving to become what God does not intend us to be.1. Humility
Humility essentially is truth. It is the realization of what we are as creatures of God. It is also the correct implementation of this realization in our Christian lives. Humility therefore is not an exercise in self-depreciation. Humility is not telling myself that I am no good, that I really have nothing of any significance to contribute to the service of God and man. Again, humility is truth. It is compatible with the recognition that God has given a person certain gifts, even great gifts, of nature and grace. Indeed, God wants us to recognize these gifts. Otherwise we do not thank Him for them as we should, nor properly develop these gifts according to His will. But if God wants us to recognize the good which is in us, He also wants us to realize the source of this goodness. Although we have to cooperate with His graces, God is the one who is chiefly responsible for what we are. If a person has advanced in the Christian life beyond another, it is ultimately because God has given that person greater graces.
It should be obvious then why the spiritual masters throughout the history of Christian spirituality have emphasized humility. God is a God of truth. He will not contribute to our living according to a lie. If we attribute the good within us mainly to our own efforts, this establishes an obstacle to God's grace. In the Letter of James we read: ". . . as scripture says: God opposes the proud but he gives generously to the humble. Give in to God, then; resist the devil, and he will run away from you. The nearer you go to God, the nearer he will come to you. . . Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will lift you up." (Jn 4:6-10).
If humility is truth, and therefore allows for the proper recognition of my gifts, it also necessitates my admitting to the evil within me. This is also part of the truth. This truth also must be acted upon; for Christian humility not only allows me to admit that there is evil in me, but it also tells me that as a creature of God I should conform myself to His will and strive to eradicate and control the evil as far as this is possible. In summary, humility allows the Christian to evaluate properly both the good and evil in himself.
Humility likewise allows us properly to accept the human condition with all its various ramifications. One aspect of the human condition is the fact that we suffer at times because of the human limitations and sinfulness of others. To rebel in these situations is to fail to realize what it means to be part of the human condition. It is a failure to relate properly in truth to reality. It is a failure in humility. Christ, the sinless one, the perfect one, suffered tremendously because of the human condition, but He did not rebel. He realized what it meant to be man. He realized that to be man means to accept the fact that one at times is going to suffer because of the evil of others. Christ did not flinch. As man He fully accepted His creaturehood with all its ramifications; He was truly humble.
Another sign of Christian humility is one's willingness to live out the various implications of being social persons. A proud person is an independent person who in many ways refuses to admit the social dimension of his being. He does not readily admit that he needs others. He also can refuse to admit his obligation to help others. To be available to others in their manifold needs demands a price. A proud person, closed in upon his own self-interests, often is not willing to pay this price. Whether it is a question of receiving from others or giving to others, humility helps to remind us of a truth we have mentioned before: no man is an island.
Humility also bids a person to accept himself as he has come forth from the creative hand of God. God has given us certain fundamental talents. These can be great. They can also be ordinary. God has also given each of us a certain basic temperament and personality, and we must realize that He leads us on in Christian holiness according to this fundamental structure.
Humility likewise leads a person to seek and fulfill God's appointed task for him in life. To act in this way is to exercise humility because it is a realization of what it means to be God's creature. We cannot always be as sure of our role in life as we would like. But if we utilize prayer and the other means available we can be as certain as God wants us to be, and this is what matters. Within this God-given role, we should try to give our reasonable best each day despite the possible monotony, frustration or hiddeness of our work. We must give our attention primarily to the task of the present. All of us are tempted at times to live too much in the past or too much in the future. This can be caused by a lack of humility (although not necessarily so). For to fail to live properly in the present can mean that we are dissatisfied with the tasks and circumstances which Providence here and now put before us. If this is the truth of the matter, it means we are failing to some extent to act as a creature before our Creator. It is to fail in humility.
A truth attached to the practice of Christian humility which we find difficult to accept is the fact that we must be willing to accept humiliations properly. This generally is always difficult for us despite the presence of God's grace. It perhaps is made more difficult in the type of culture which surrounds us. But the difficulty involved cannot relieve us of the necessity of reacting properly to insults and humiliations. We should not give occasion for humiliations, but our humility will never be a solid one unless we properly accept these when they do occur. Christ has shown the way. "Then they stripped him and made him wear a scarlet cloak, and having twisted some thorns into a crown they put this on his head and placed a reed in his right hand. To make fun of him they knelt to him saying, "Hail, king of the Jews! " And they spat on him and took the reed and struck him on the head with it." (Mt 27:28-30).
But, of course, it is not only in regard to reacting properly to insults and humiliations that Christ has given us an example. Humility in all its aspects is perfectly summed up in the man Jesus: "In your minds you must be the same as Christ Jesus: His state was divine, yet he did not cling to his equality with God but emptied himself to assume the condition of a slave, and became as men are; and being as all men are, he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross." (Ph 2:5-8).
3. Cf. A. Roldan, Personality Types and Holiness (New York: Alba House, 1967), pp. 136-137.
               
		
R. Recognizing good in us
                    
and evil in us
From a Lenten Homily, March 24, 2000
Live in the Moment
Todays Gospel in its story certainly points ahead to Jesus in His Passion and death. And as we read passages such as this during the Lenten season, we are reminded once again that the Church in her Liturgy of the Word gives us an opportunity to undergo a purification, an ever deepening cleansing of ourselves so that we may be a more fit instrument for receiving the great graces which are to be given to us at the time of the Resurrection memorial on Easter. And so all in all, Lent is a time of purification to prepare us for ever-greater gifts of the Lord. Its a time of self-discipline, a time to renew our efforts to be self-disciplined in the service of the Lord. Self-discipline is an aspect of purification. And I suggest that one of the most difficult acts of self-discipline in the spiritual journey is to concentrate on the present moment. We have a very strong tendency to disregard the importance of the present moment by focusing in a wrong way on the past or in a wrong way on the future. There are proper occasions for thinking of the past and the future. For example, we have to learn from the past and we have to prepare for the future, but our great emphasis has to be upon the present. There is a Latin axiom which says, age quod agis, age quod agis, which means: do what you are doing, concentrate on the present. And of course we are familiar with that term in the history of spirituality: the sacrament of the present moment. And so the discipline of Lent certainly encourages us to include in a deeper self-discipline a greater determination to get as much as we can out of the present moment. People with a terminal illness have an opportunity as they prepare for death for increased prayer, contrition, love of God. However, some are taken very, very quickly. But for those who have the opportunity of knowing with some certainty the time of their death, Im sure as they look back on their lives, they are saddened by the many times they did not use time and opportunities for the service of the Lord properly, and are overjoyed at those times in which they did use the present opportunity properly. A great means we have of living in the present properly is a greater focus upon our Lord. For if I have that awareness of the fact I am united with Jesus here and now, why should I be concerned so much about the future or the past? Yes, a great help in living in the present and deriving all the good we can from it for ourselves and others is an ever greater focus upon Jesus, because the more I focus upon Jesus and the more I live with Him in the present moment, the more I am satisfied with the present moment. And so let us in our Lenten activity resolve to grow in that self-discipline - which is very difficult at times - to really live in the presence with the fullness of our being as much as is possible, with the help of Gods grace. Now is the day of salvation. Now is the day of salvation.
end of Father Carter's homily
R. Look back at your life 
                    
See all the good you have
                        
done 
                    
Thank God for this
                        
grace to be good 
Thank God for the talents 
                    
Let go and know you were
                        
doing God's will
                        
in serving Him and
                        
building the Kingdom
                
Don't get bitter and say 
                    
"I did all this for you 
                    
You didn't appreciate
                    
it"
                
The motive of why we do
                    
something comes from
                    
the heart 
                
To do things to love others,
                    
because it is God's
                    
will is the right motive
                    
To do things to get power
                
for ourselves, vain glory,
                
to collect and demand our
                
way  to force our will on
                
others against God's will
                
is wrong 
                    
It is a tainted motive to
                
use our work to control things
                
for our will, jealousies, power
                
control  against God's will 
                    
Dysfunction is forced on
                
others, by others who insist
                
on their dysfunctional ways
                
at the expense of others 
                    
We are to live in harmony
		
                    
to live under God's plan 
                
The seasons change 
                    
We see His order 
                
Day follows night
                    
We see His order 
		
						
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