Something that Can't be Separated

A while back, I had a thought that I should create a separate Facebook page to share my blog posts to.  I thought that I would just invite the people who regularly read my blog to “like” the page so that the posts wouldn’t be shared on the newsfeed to people who don’t read them.  I thought that maybe people might be annoyed with seeing these posts pop up each week.  Thankfully, I decided against that, because I realized that there are people reading the posts who just don’t engage with the posts and then there may be people who decide to click on a certain post one week, without me even knowing.  If I created a separate page, it would be limited to just certain people.  And we cannot limit or hide our faith.  We cannot put our faith in a box.

If we have faith, it should impact who we are and guide how we live our lives.  Faith is not something that is a part of our lives, but rather, it must be a way of life and impact every aspect of our lives.  This includes the words we speak, the thoughts we think, and the choices that we make every day.

Sometimes, it’s easy for our faith to become a checklist, with boxes that we mentally mark off or something that is reserved just for Sundays.  People can easily fall into the mindset that once they’ve gone to mass and said a few prayers, they are good until the next weekend to do whatever it is they want to do, leaving their faith behind until the following week.  Maybe we have fallen into this trap at some point in our lives, doing certain things and moving onto the next task, setting aside our faith.  But our faith must be intrinsic to who we are.

Jesus is not reserved for certain people that we pick and choose.  He is for everyone, whether they know it or not.  And our job as Catholics and followers of Him is to try to make Him known by the way we live our lives, not just at certain times and in certain places, but always and everywhere.
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If we love Jesus, we will share Him by the way we live.  We will not contain our faith to a certain group of people or to just one part of our lives.  But we will strive to let Him guide us in each moment of our days, every day.  My prayer today is that each one of us would let our faith and love for Jesus not be just part of our lives and something we conceal at certain times, but that it would be deeply embedded in us and something that can’t be separated from who we are!