6 ways to leave the stress of work behind
As much as people like to complain about their jobs, most people feel positively about the work they do. Nonetheless, work can be so demanding that we can’t leave it behind at the end of the day and simply enjoy being home. Here are some tips on sharing your on-the-job experiences with family members without letting work get in the way of family life.
1. Save some of your imagination and creativity for your family. Life as a family is a great adventure that gets better as you put more positive energy into it.
2. When you leave work, leave the work behind. Don’t replay the events of the day imagining what you should have said or done. Focus on the moment and enjoy the blessings of family life.
3. Be multidimensional. You are more than your job. Make sure that you cultivate each part of your life—home, parish, work, community, and self.
4. Share stories about work with your family. Doing so will help your family to understand a major part of your life and will show your children how to be persons of character on the job.
5. Treat your family members with respect. You treat coworkers professionally and respectfully. Why shouldn’t your family benefit from that same treatment at home?
6. Practice teamwork. Don’t try to be super-mom or super-dad at home. Ask your family members for better ways of handling situations. Share responsibility and welcome participation in both the chores and the fun of family life.
I have been thinking a great deal about my experience at Reconciliation this past Saturday. I felt an intense and unexplainable urge to go and confess my sins when I woke up that morning. I try to go every six weeks or so, but this was no routine visit to the priest for me. I needed to unburden myself of the numerous venial sins I had committed since I last participated in this Sacrament.
Purest Gold: God's Refining Fire in our Lives »
After salvation, many young Christians wonder if there's anything more to their newfound faith than just the security blanket of "being a Christian." Time and time again, God shows himself as a "refiner," and our lives are as gold. God started leading me in this study to understand what He was doing in my life, as well as in the lives of others.
Picking up my pen to write this column, I couldn’t imagine how time flies. Since the last publication of this column I have gone through a lot, especially the loss of my dear mother to whom I dedicate this article. Not only her, but seems I lost a whole generation of my close family.
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“Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before Kings; He will not stand before unknown men.” Proverbs 22:29
Spiritual Development for our Youth »
Most of us youth in today's fast moving world are easily thrown off by difficulties and worries.
The theme of conversion is a thread that runs all through Lent, but conversion takes on different aspects throughout the phases of Lent. The first two and a half weeks focused on the interior turning of hearts; the liturgy urges the faithful to reflect and examine consciences thoroughly.
Saint Josephine Bakhita »
Feast Day: February 8
Patron Saint Of: Sudan
Saint Josephine Margaret Bakhita was born around 1869 in the village of Olgossa in the Darfur region of Sudan. She was a member of the Daju people and her uncle was a tribal chief. Due to her family lineage, she grew up happy and relatively prosperous, saying that as a child, she did not know suffering.
Catholics Must Fast More Intensely This Lent»
The Norbertine Canons of St. Michael's Abbey have created this digital Lenten retreat so that you can journey through this holy season alongside them. If you want to have one of your best Lenten seasons yet, join us in our Lenten Program "The Great Fast" - https://theabbotscircle.com/the-great-fast-join
When Your Faith Is Put to the Test - Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon»
Friends, we come now to the Second Sunday of Lent, and we’re on both dangerous and very holy ground with the first reading from the twenty-second chapter of Genesis. The ancient Israelites referred to it as the “Akedah,” which means the “binding”: Abraham binds and is ready to sacrifice Isaac at God’s command.
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