Talk is Cheap...

This week, I found myself distracted by an online conversation. I didn't actively participate in it very much - out of close to 300 posts I made only 3 - but I found myself constantly going back to check in the flow of the conversation. While the debate was about something I strongly believe, in the end I realized that it was wasting my time. I could not keep up with the pace, and I could not convince the other side of my point of view through my words alone. So, why was I constantly going back to read how the debate was unfolding?

Then I remembered these words...

The duty of the moment is what you should be doing at any given time, in whatever place God has put you.

You may not have Christ in a homeless person at your door, but you may have a little child.

If you have a child, your duty of the moment may be to change a dirty diaper.

So you do it.

But you don't just change that diaper, you change it to the best of your ability, with great love for both God and that child....

There are all kinds of good Catholic things you can do, but whatever they are, you have to realize that there is always the duty of the moment to be done.

And it must be done, because the duty of the moment is the duty of God.

~ Catherine Doherty

Even though this debate was defending God's word and my faith, it was causing me to neglect my family, the ones God has given me to serve as well as delight in.

James 2:14-17...

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well," but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it?

So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

I will not be able to raise children who know and live God's love if I don't show them this love myself with both my actions and my words.



Sanctity through a clean home and children who are loved and well cared for. That is my path to salvation.