The Pains of Integrating Faith with ‘Real’ Life (Clip)
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Below are the first couple of paragraphs of the accompanying article which is basically a rundown and commentary now hat you'll see in the clip.
"I’ve often thought about the challenges we face as we try to integrate faith with our everyday lives. It’s a complex journey, one filled with struggle and moments of doubt. Sometimes “the faith” burns us out. Sometimes it feels like noise or static. Sometimes it feels like an obstacle to the way we want to live.
These things may be more or less true for you, depending on the status of your life, your religious formation and your lifestyle. But it occurs to me that many have this sense of difficulty with the Catholic faith, in practice. Many people find it hard to reconcile the disparate elements of their existence—faith and the human experience. It’s a theme that resonated deeply with me after receiving a comment on a video I published to YouTube from a person expressing signs of this difficulty, and I felt compelled to share my thoughts and experiences on the matter in my latest podcast episode (“Faith and Fumbles” – Episode 43). I’ve presented a small portion of that segment in this video clip above. What you’re reading is a composition and summary of what I talked about in that 30 minute segment (the video is only 13 minutes of that segment)...."