If you have more time in your schedule, you may be able to help out at your parish as a Catechist teaching kids or adults about our faith. Now is the time we have to make a positive impact on them. What about doing household chores for a friend who just had a new baby? One of my friends (who DETESTS dusting, by the way) came over when our second child was born and dusted for us so my husband and I wouldn’t have to do it.Īs a busy mom, make sure you spend time each day playing or talking with your kids. You can visit someone who is sick or make a meal for someone who has just gotten out of the hospital. You can call someone you know is lonely and chat for a while. You can smile and say good morning to someone each day.
How is God calling you to use your time to honor Him? Some of us have more than others to use in serving others. See “How to Pray About It” if you need some ideas on praying for discernment for a specific intention. In prayer, we can discover how God wants for us to use the gifts He gives us in the service of others, in our homes, with others we know, and with those we do not know. The kingdom of God starts right in our own homes. Have you heard the expression that stewardship is about sharing our time, talent, and treasure? Our time, talents, and treasures are all gifts from God that we can share with others to build up the kingdom of God. Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. All we have is from God and we should use all for His glory. This passage shows us that it is not only our material possessions and riches that are a gift from God but also the gifts of grace and the talents that we receive from God. To him belong glory and dominion for ever and ever. We may use what God has given to us, but it all belongs to Him.ġ Peter 4:10-11 says, “As each has received a gift, employ it for one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who utters oracles of God whoever renders service, as one who renders it by the strength which God supplies in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ.
King David makes it very clear that everything that exists belongs to God and that all we have comes from God.
In your hand are power and might it is yours to give grandeur and strength to all.” In 1 Chronicles 29: 11-12, King David praises God: “Yours, O Lord, are grandeur and power, majesty, splendor, and glory. For all in heaven and on earth is yours yours, O Lord, is the sovereignty you are exalted as head over all. Riches and honor are from you, and you have dominion over all. The following Bible verses can help us to understand more about stewardship. Since we are called as Christians to be good stewards, then we need to 1-recognize that all we have comes from God and 2-identify what is in our care. What the Bible says about being a good steward of God’s blessings to us You can read more specifically about Christian stewardship on the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ website. The definition of a good steward.Īccording to, a steward is “someone who takes care of something and protects it.”īy this definition, a good steward is someone who does a good job of taking care of and protecting what is entrusted to his or her care. By understanding what a steward is and then applying that to different aspects of your life, you more easily understand how God is calling you to be a good steward of the gifts He has given to you. Being a good steward is simpler than it sounds.
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Learning how to be a good steward as part of our responsibility as children of God can seem challenging. Being a Good Steward is what God calls us to do.
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