Dear Friends, a little secret...
The weekly Live IT VIDEO and Live IT GUIDE are a kind of family confession. These come from our own taking a hard look in the mirror. They're based upon the Gospel's most compelling challenge to us.
We're genuinely concerned that Catholic witness is often too artificial, too manufactured... more about how we'd like to appear, than who we really are.
The world is starving to know Jesus Christ, for real, not just some idealized concept. As such, we're called to the "Bethlehem factor"... an authentic portrait, our "working it out" reality of a smelly stable.
The absence of such realism, the compelling nature of God's chosen means of making His presence known, deprives the world from really encountering Him.
So hear ye! Hear ye, WORLD!
The heart of our IGNITE, LIT Gatherings, and LIT Retreats, and IGNITE Radio (coming October 7)... all this stuff, is simply this:
We are incomplete. We are struggling. We are in constant need of God's grace. It is precisely our poverty and privation that impels us towards Him, Who alone is our Provision. Without our sin, we have no need for a Savior!
So, for our Live IT witness to the world, who's ready to get Real?
This Sunday Jesus challenges us. He tells the story of the ungrateful, entitled, envious workers (Matt. 20:1-16). They've worked all day, but receive the same as those who worked less. They're whining: "That's not fair! You like him better! Gimme, gimme! I deserve!"
1) Are we more fixed on blessings we'd like, or blessings we have?
2) How does fixation on others' blessings, denial of our own blessings, rob us of relationship with the Blesser?
3) How would our lives be different if we were more anchored in the Blesser, than in (our false perceptions of) His blessings?
We know you're busy. Put a flag in your home for Jesus Christ: schedule time to talk and pray as a family.
Please keep us in your prayers and be assured of ours for you. | 
