There was never any chance that Jesus would call you into the work of Catholic education and then leave you without the gifts and charisms you would need to be all that he called you to be. In this episode I explore the powerful message of 1 Peter 4 10-11. The good news is that you have been given incredible gifts. The closer you grow to Jesus and the sacramental the more these gifts will grow and develop.

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Hey everybody.

Jonathan Doyle with you.

Once again, welcome back to the daily message for Catholic teachers.

If you are a Catholic teacher, this is for you.

If you're not a Catholic teacher.

Welcome.

It's a little weird that you're here, but Hey, there's plenty of rooms.

So pull up a seat.

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So.

You ready today rather than a, quite from one of my favorite famous historical

saintly figures, we're going to go straight to the good book itself.

We're going to give you a beautiful quote from one Peter.

Let's do it.

Each one of you has received a special grace, so like good stewards, responsible

for all these different graces of God.

Put yourself at the service of others.

Boom.

This is good news.

I'm always preaching on this one.

Let's keep it simple.

Have beautiful.

The grace of baptism means that you were given a special grace

scripture just said that, right?

Special grace, you weren't given a generic grace, you weren't

given a, uh, off the shelf, grace.

It wasn't like in heaven.

There's like this big thing.

And it's like, you know, heaven is not like an Amazon factory, right.

It's not like an Amazon processing, you know, uh, facility where they're

just like, oh, we got a new soul here.

It's technically theologically.

It's called universal hollow.

It's like, you know, there's the, there's the body and there's assaults put into it.

It's not like they kind of went, oh yeah, we created Jonathan.

Uh, we need some graces.

Uh, let's get a, can we get a C 16 Delta?

And it's going to slap that in there.

Do you understand that at the moment of conception, God saw his heart for you?

He knew the graces that would be given to you the unique ability.

I have a friend.

Who's an accountant.

He's a really good accountant.

He looks after us.

I would die if I was an accountant.

If, if my days were like nothing other than Excel spreadsheets,

I would find a bridge.

And I, would you get the point?

No, I do this.

I'm sitting in the studio here enjoying this cause I want to bless you.

Because there was a grace given to me to want to talk, to want, to communicate what

to encourage, to teach, to encourage, to inspire, to liberate people's potential.

Right?

That's the thing I'm on the planet to do that.

To liberate people's potential special.

Grace, you have.

And you probably have several and how beautiful it is to be reminded

today that you have a special grace, you need to steward it.

You need to develop it.

You need to own it.

You need to be proud of it.

And then the purpose of the grace given to you was for the building up

in the service of others, there is a reason you are a Catholic educator.

I mean, do you think God does random, do you think God's just like.

G, I, I hope that I become a mechanic.

It's like this was planned.

This was meant to happen.

Yes, there is free will, but God drew you to something.

W you're you were drawn to it.

Remember your very first thought about becoming a teacher or your

first day, the first time you were ever a teacher, it wasn't hard.

Was it like, it's just like you wanted to do it.

You were attracted to it because there was a grace given to you at baptism.

So let's own it.

And let me remind you that if you're struggling with burnout,

exhaustion, cynicism, fatigue, now let me be serious here.

That can be structural reasons for that.

It could be, you could be in a really bad school with terrible

leadership and you mean the holy spirit might call you to move.

But a lot of the times it's because we're striving and straining

and struggling in our exhaust.

Because we're not being replenished spiritually.

We're not having the grace of our baptism constantly topped up.

So there's a few things here.

The first is that yes, you have this grace second.

You need to steward it.

Third it's for the service and the building up of others, but forth.

Well, let me come back to the second.

I guess what the stewardship means is that you've got to go the distance and

to go the distance you simply need.

To be immersed in the sacramental life.

The life of prayer, you need to let Jesus fill you up.

You need to let the spirit fill you up.

Okay.

God does not go.

Here's an idea.

Let's get bill.

Let's get married.

Let's get Steve.

Let's get Jennifer.

Let's get him into the Catholic education vocation so we can exhaust

them and turn them into really cranky, miserable people that hate

kids and go home miserable every day.

No, that's not a God.

We want to serve.

Right.

That's like, that is not.

There is not God.

All his ways are perfect.

His paths of peace.

I don't always feel it.

A vocation life has been fathered, businessmen, communicator, entrepreneurs,

speaker, you know, I might walk around and see a piece I'm getting better.

I'm getting better.

But at least I know where the peace is now.

Right.

I spent 30 years with none of it because I didn't know where the piece was.

I'm slowly learning Stuart.

Look after yourself, seek holiness, seek the sacraments because they

are the fountains of grace that will sustain your beautiful, special grace.

So when you're finished with this, I want you to go find a mirror.

I want you to look in it and three times, look yourself in the eye and say, hello.

I have a special grace.

Go on, say it three times.

Just look yourself in the mirror and say, I have a special grace.

What is your special grace?

Are you kind?

Are you patient?

Are you good listener?

Are you good at discipline?

Are you good at structure?

Are you funny?

You know, I'm an intern.

True story.

I am.

I really am.

I'm quite introverted.

I like to read a lot solitary, like science, you put me on a stage

and I'm just going to go nuts.

I'm just like, ah, I don't want to happens.

I get up there and I just want to jump off the stage and grab people

and go, God's got a plan for you.

He's stoked that you're teaching.

Let me tell you some cool things.

They can help you do this.

That's a grace.

That's not me.

That's a grace.

It's grace building on nature.

It's grace building on all the books I ever read.

It's Christ building on the fact that I did drama at school.

It's grace, grace, grace, grace, building on the raw material.

So it's open ourselves to grace.

Let's be blitz let's let's be happy and thankful that he's

he's he didn't leave us off.

He didn't say, go into this vocation and you figure it out.

He's going to go into this vocation because I've given

you these special graces.

You're going to use them to bless and heal and get kids home to heaven.

And I'm going to be with you.

I'm going to sustain you.

I'm going to carry you through the sacraments and we're going to be good.

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