Podcast | Open Hands, Open Heart | (Episode 181)
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Podcast | Open Hands, Open Heart | (Episode 181)
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We explore why Jesus’s hard words in Matthew 10 are not a command to love family less but a call to stop possessing the people we love. We use the image of open hands to expose fear, control, and misplaced expectations, then practice surrender in the Eucharist and in everyday relationships.
• reading and unpacking Matthew 10:37-42 through the lens of surrender
• why hands and body language reveal anxiety, fear, and control
• distinguishing love that protects from possession that controls
• parenting and marriage as stewardship rather than ownership
• St. Augustine’s ordered love and why sin is often love out of order
• why no spouse or child can fill a God-sized emptiness
• making room for God amid busyness, noise, and packed schedules
• the Shunammite woman’s hospitality as a model for creating space
• receiving the Eucharist with open hands as a weekly act of trust
Take this homily and try to break it open with yourself, with your spouse, with your children, and with your friends.
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