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Chapter 8: Occupy your home-pt. 2 (adaptations)

11/11/2016

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Occupy where you live, it is the place that you have been given.
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As with all things in this life, we may begin with the material and physical things, but then move onward to the immaterial and spiritual things.  If you have been given a job to do, or a particular schedule of shifts to work--accept them.  If you have been given certain people as friends and family members--accept them.  If you are out of work and been given time to help others or possibly work on a personal project; certain responsibilities that have been asked of you; inspirations to write, or create, to visit someone or call a long time friend--accept them.  Whatever your situation in life may be--accept what you have been given.  Even to the point if you are given insults and injustice--accept them.

We remember always that the first thing which St. Albert asked of us and that we have done in setting out upon this life is to elect a prior, that we have Christ, or the one he has chosen, as our prior and the One who has given us all that we have been given.  It is from God that all that exists in our life has come and it is He who wishes and longs for the best things for us; that we would not be given anything that is not for our good and the good of others; that even in our sufferings and times of trial and difficulty, it is then that God is seeking to accomplish His best work in us and give us the most sacred, holy and valuable things; that we do not forget the Christ who hangs on the cross and the cup that he was given, the cup that he freely and fully accepted which raised him to Glory and gained salvation for the world.

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