{"id":979,"date":"2022-03-20T00:04:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T00:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=979"},"modified":"2022-03-20T00:04:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T00:04:14","slug":"the-generosity-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Generosity Habit\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"absorbing-god-word\"><strong>Absorbing God Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRemember your leaders,\u00a0who spoke the word of God\u00a0to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate\u00a0their faith.\u201d Hebrews 13:7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"applying-god-s-word\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My junior year of high school was one of the toughest years of my life. I left my family, friends, dog, and the comfort of home to find out if God was really calling me to be a priest. Mission Santa Barbara seemed a long way from San Jose, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cost of tuition, room and board was more than my parents could afford. Therefore, the seminary gave me a partial scholarship and asked me to work at the Franciscan Print Shop (Serra Press) each day after school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brother Kevin ran the print shop and became one of the most important mentors in my life. He taught me how to work all the machines that produced our seminary magazine, the Antonian, and so much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brother Kevin knew I wasn\u2019t doing well scholastically or emotionally. Halfway through the year, I was ready to throw in the towel, but Brother Kevin encouraged me to stick it out. He helped me with my schoolwork and became a daily living habit of generosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was only at the seminary for a year, but the friendship with Brother Kevin lasted until the day he died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2-minute video &#8211; &nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OmEse2_PiKk\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/OmEse2_PiKk<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"accounting-of-god-s-word\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Am I a daily living habit of generosity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cRemember your leaders,\u00a0who spoke the word of God\u00a0to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate\u00a0their faith.\u201d Hebrews 13:7 Applying God\u2019s Word My junior year of high school was one of the toughest years &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=979\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}