Archive for May 2022
13 | INTERVIEW: Noreen McInnes shares wisdom on accompanying parents through sickness and death
We enjoyed our conversation with the lovely Noreen Mcinnes. Her book, Keep at it, Riley! is a memoir of her accompaniment of her parents through aging, sickness, and death. She shared some touching stories and insights from her experiences. Raised as an Irish Catholic, they had a kind of family motto “Keep at it, Riley!”…
Read More12 | HAPPINESS: it sets you up for success in everything that you do
We are talking about happiness, striving for happiness, because it’s important in everything you do. Happiness sets us up for success – in spiritual life, and in areas of life including the buckets of Work, Love, and Play. Create an ethic to choose happiness. We often consciously prioritize certain activities or areas of life to…
Read More11 | HAPPINESS: The Pleasant Life, the Good Life, and the Meaningful Life
We’ve been discussing happiness. Aquinas views the desire for happiness as ingrained in and being inseparable from, our humanity. We want to be with God because we desire happiness. We are made for Him. There are some schools of thought based on an idea that we should be disinterested in happiness and entirely focused on…
Read More10 | HAPPINESS: You need purpose! Unity in our spiritual, mental, and emotional lives
It is important as spiritual beings, as Christians, and as Catholics to strive for happiness. And we can make a lot of choices for it that are perfectly in alignment with our highest values and everything we believe. Happiness helps us be what God intends. Happiness is a lot more than feeling good. What it…
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