Episode 3. The Verdict Is In: You Are Good.

Episode 3. The Verdict Is In: You Are Good.

Show Notes

My friend, you. are. good.

We’ll say it again in case you don’t believe us: you are good.Our intrinsic goodness and value don’t come from our achievements, our actions, our relationships, or even our prayer lives. We are good simply because God, our Father, made us in His image and likeness; He made us good. No sin, no action, no suffering, no failure can rob us of our goodness. So many mental health challenges stem from our reluctance to receive our inherent, God-given worth.

Fr. Nathan LaLiberte joins Pat for this striking conversation that might be exactly what we all need to hear today.

Show Notes

  • Our identity comes from who we are and whose we are, not what we do

  • Relationship → Identity → Mission

    • Our Mission (what we do) flows from our Identity (who we are), which is rooted in a Relationship with God our loving Father

  • “But,” said Moses to God, “if I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what do I tell them?” God replied to Moses: I am who I am. Then he added: This is what you will tell the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.
    - Exodus 3:13-14

  • “The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour’s talents—or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall. He wants each man, in the long run, to be able to recognise all creatures (even himself) as glorious and excellent things.”
    - The Screwtape Letters #14, C.S. Lewis

  • “Christ’s birth was not necessity, but an expression of omnipotence, a sacrament of piety for the redemption of men.  He who made man without generation from pure clay made man again and was born from a pure body.  The hand that assumed clay to make our flesh deigned to assume a body for your salvation.  That the Creator is in his creature and God is in the flesh brings dignity to man without dishonor to him who made him.

    Why then, man, are you so worthless in your own eyes and yet so precious to God? Why render yourself such dishonor when you are honored by him?”
    - St. Peter Chrysologus

{ The scene from The Help referenced by
Fr. Nathan }

Challenge By Choice

Spend 5 minutes each day in silence this week (Turning down external voices & listening to the voice of the Father)

  • "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” - Blaise Pascal