What is your social lubricant? That is, what do you use or feel you need to fit into a group situation, a social event? It might be hair, clothes, fitness, alcohol, pill or powder, money, job or title. If fitting in becomes full of too much anxiety you might soon make your lubricant a wedge that keeps you separate. Instead of a drink, you get intoxicated. A little perfume becomes everyone moving away from you or opening windows! And so on. Moderation separates lubricants from wedges. Or maybe someday with inner work, you won’t feel the anxiety about fitting in. And maybe the group was not for you in the first place.
The homilies and musings of a Paulist Priest.
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From Stephanie Logan of Centennial, CO
I sincerely hope your mission thrives. The Church these days seems overly intent on preaching politics and battering its members with ultimatums and threats instead of focusing on the messages of love, forgiveness and daily sacrifice that convert followers from the inside out and are therefore more effective in the long run!
I sincerely hope your mission thrives. The Church these days seems overly intent on preaching politics and battering its members with ultimatums and threats instead of focusing on the messages of love, forgiveness and daily sacrifice that convert followers from the inside out and are therefore more effective in the long run!
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