FGG-126 The Gnat and the Camel

Do you sometimes feel that Catholics and Christians get hung up in minutia; that we have become the modern day Pharisees that Jesus admonished?  Often, we are so busy being …

FGG-125 The Me I’m Meant to Be

We all wear masks; sometimes to cover our insecurities, sometimes to be an accepted part of a social group, sometimes as a defense mechanism and often to try to ease …

FGG-124 Reluctant Acceptance

Why are we as a society so reluctant to accept the differences in others? Why is there a need to judge others, those that are different in our eyes?  We …

FGG-123 Practice Empathy

The observation that “opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one,” is probably truer now that at any time in history. With the advent of social media, anyone can get …

Humility, the Lost Virtue

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less.”  –C.S. Lewis What ever happened to humility?  Once valued in our culture, humility just isn’t practiced at …