March 31, 2025 • 19 mins
Are you familiar with this phrase? The Lord promises that he will come through. We know this because he is faithful. We need to put our trust in him. We need to hope in the Lord. Because "good things do come to those who wait!"
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Paul, Welcome to Catholic moneytalk, where we talk about all
things money and finance, and wetry to do it through a lens of
being Catholic, where ourultimate goal is to one day be
in Heaven with the Lord. I amyour host. Paul Scarfone, thank
you for being here today.
Welcome back to Catholic moneytalk. Today, I want to talk
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about a phrase that many of usare probably familiar with, and
that is good things come tothose who wait. But before we do
that, let's say a prayer in thename of the Father and of the
Son of the Holy Spirit. Amen,Heavenly Father. We thank you
for this day. We thank you forall the ways that you love and
bless us, Lord, we thank You forthis season of Lent in which we
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get to turn our hearts to you,remembering the great sacrifices
that you made for us, Lord God,that you carried out our awesome
plan of salvation to bring us toyou. Thank you, Lord, for
conquering death and all thatkeeps us from you. Lord, bless
us in particular with all thesituations we might find
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ourselves in, Lord, we know thatyou have a great plan and that
you love us so much allow us toyield to your Holy Spirit. We
ask all this in Jesus name,amen, in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the HolySpirit Amen. So good things come
to those who wait. Boy, I feellike I've heard that a lot when
I was a little kid, probablybeing impatient because I wanted
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something, right? Maybe it wasmy turn with a toy or a game, if
you're right, at a playground,or maybe it was, I don't know,
some edible treat, a snack, adessert, ice cream, whatever it
was, right that I was lackingpatience for maybe I had to wait
in line and my parents or maybeother adults around me would
say, Paul, you have to bepatient. Good things come to
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those who wait. Well. When welook at things in our life, and
we'll talk about our financiallife here, we need to remember
that as well. Good things cometo those who wait. We might have
some big goals that are in frontof us that we're trying to
tackle. Maybe we're waiting fora new opportunity. Maybe it's a
job, maybe it's for a home to goon sale that we're waiting for a
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home to come on sale that'sfinally in our price range, or
maybe it's some otheropportunity. Maybe it's a bill
we're trying to pay off, or asavings goal that we're getting
close to, and we know that wehave to be persistent in our
efforts, right, diligent in ourefforts. As we wait and the good
things will come, we'll arriveat that goal which we've been
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working towards, right? We'llfind that opportunity we've been
searching for, that we've beenwaiting for, but waiting is
hard, and sometimes, you know,God has a great plan. There's
been times in my life wheremaybe it was a job I really
wanted, or a house. I remembermany situations, a house that we
really wanted, we trying to finda house. We make an offer, and
it doesn't get accepted, and wego, oh man. And then a couple
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weeks later, another housethat's even better comes on the
market, and we're able to get itright. So the Lord's always
looking out for us and workingto help us achieve our goals.
But waiting can be hard,especially when we don't
understand the plan.
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And I think for myself, as Ireflect on this Lent,
what are some of the things thatthe Lord's been putting on my
heart and working with me thisLent and waiting, waiting on
him, that's a big one. So it wasa couple weeks ago I put my my
two little guys to bed, and Ihad just read them their story,
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and I was sitting there and Iwas just pondering a few
different situations in my lifewhere I am waiting for the Lord
to act. I'm waiting for him toshow up and fix something I'm
I'm actually waiting for him todo what I want him to do. Right?
Let me say it like that. I don'tlike waiting for the Lord to do
the things that I want him todo, because I know what's best,
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right? I know what he should befocused on, what he should be
working on, and I don't likewaiting for him to do the things
that I want him to do. Then, asI was saying this to Lord, and I
thought, You know what, I've gota few extra moments here. I need
to have some more prayer time,because I'm really wrestling
with this. I'm exhausted andtired of waiting for the Lord,
so I grabbed my Bible, I grabbedmy prayer journal, and that's I
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was writing down a few things. Istarted writing my prayer
journal. I said, Lord, I'm sotired. I am so tired. I am
weary. I'm waiting for you. I'mwaiting and I'm exhausted. I
just need you to do the thingsthat I need you to do, and
immediately I just felt like theLord led me to Isaiah, 40,
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verse, 30. So what does thatsay? Though young men faint and
grow weary. You and youthstagger and fall. They that hope
in the Lord, will renew theirstrength, and they will soar on
eagle's wings. They will run andnot grow weary, walk and not
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grow faint.
So let me read that again.
Isaiah, 40, verse, 30,though young men faint and grow
weary, and youth stagger andfall, they that hope in the Lord
will renew their strength. Theywill soar on eagle's wings. They
will run and not grow weary,walk and not grow faint. And
I've heard that differently attimes. And I think I've got a
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shirt, a printed shirt my wifewould give me that says they
that wait on the Lord will renewtheir strength, right? And I
think hoping in the Lord andwaiting on the Lord, they mean
the same thing in the sense of,there's a trust that we must
have in the Lord, that the Lordwill come through. And when I
look back at my life, right? Imentioned the the house, and
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there's been jobs and differentthings, I can see all those
moments where he did comethrough, and I need to, I
constantly need to be remindedof that, that he is so faithful,
so that I can continue to trusthim. I need to trust him. So in
that moment, I said, Lord, youknow, I'm so exhausted, I'm so
weary, I'm so tired for you todo the things that I think you
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should be doing, and you're notdoing them, and I can't take
this anymore. And then hereminds me of that scripture
verse. It was a day or twolater, I was meeting with my
spiritual director, father,John, and I mentioned this to
him, and he immediately says,oh, Paul, we just had a reading
at mass about this. He pulls outhis Bible, and he opens up, I
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think it was Sirach two, verse10, and he looks at me, he says,
Paul, reading from his Bible.
Have you ever hoped in the Lordand been disappointed? And I
look at him like, yeah, all thetime. And he said to me, then
you're not hoping in the Lord.
Wow. That hurt, right? He said,Have you ever hoped in the Lord
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and been disappointed? I said,Yes. And then he said, but then
you're not hoping in the Lord,and it's so true.
Right? In the moment, I didn'twant to talk to him anymore,
right? I didn't want to hearthat. I don't want to hear that
I'm wrong, but it's so true.
I wasn't hoping in the Lord.
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Instead, I was hoping in thethings that I wanted him to do.
I was hoping in my ownexpectations for what I think is
best for me and for my familyand for the community that I
live in and for so many othersaround me. But instead, I need
to hope in the Lord. I need towait for him. I need to trust
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that he has a perfect plan toget us all to heaven, right? All
the people I care about, all ofyou listening, right? We need to
trust that he has a perfectplan. Why? Because he does. He
does have a perfect plan. That'swhy He created us. I talk about
this. He created us to know Him,love Him, and serve Him in this
life so we can be happy with himforever in the next that's his
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plan for us to get to heaven,and he's constantly working that
plan, even when we mess it up,right? We're reminded in Romans
828, we know that he works allthings to the good for those who
love Him and who are calledaccording to His purpose. So as
long as we're trying our best toseek His will, even when he mess
when we mess up, he's gonna workall those things to the good for
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those who love Him and who arecalled according to His purpose.
He's trying to get us to heaven.
He's constantly working on that.
So we need to trust that he'sgot a plan. We have to wait on
the Lord. We have to havepatience. We have to have
patience. Shortly after myconversation with my spiritual
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director a couple weeks ago, Iwas in at mass, and I was
praying, and all of a sudden Istarted thinking of the story of
the story of the prodigal son,and it wasn't part of the mass
readings for the day, but thethought the story just came to
my mind as I was praying aboutwaiting on the Lord and and I
know for many of us, right, wewent to a mass where they were
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doing the second scrutiny, forthe the folks making their
sacraments at at at Easter. Butfor everyone else, fourth Sunday
of Lent year, see was theprodigal son. The story the
prodigal son. So this is kind oftimely talking about this, but I
was praying and in the at mass,and the story of the prodigal
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son came to my mind, and I'veheard it so many times. I. Heard
it preached on I've hearddifferent reflections right of
the story, and many times Imight find myself relating to
the younger son, or maybesometimes it's the older son.
But this Sunday, as I waspraying, I was thinking about
the father, the father who waswaiting for his son to return,
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and how long he waited.
So in my mind, kind of how I seethe story. I imagine when his
son was leaving, the fatherwalked his son down the
driveway, right with with halfof his whole estate, right that
he gave to him. And, you know,side note, his father must have
been so wealthy, right to thinkhe gave his son half of
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everything he owned, and the dadstill stayed in the house and on
the property and still had afatted calf and other servants,
so he gave him halfway like thiswas a very wealthy dad, I think
of what his personal financialstatement must have looked like.
He gave everything he owned tohis son, right, half of
everything he owned to his son,and his life didn't change. I
mean, if I gave half of what Iown away, I would have nothing,
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right? I'd be sitting in a housewith no money and no cars and
whatever, because our house isso much of our, you know, our
personal financial statement. SoI'm just thinking about the vast
amount of wealth that thisfather gave his son, and he
walks him down the driveway andsays goodbye to him and doesn't
move right? In my mind, this isthe story he watches him leave.
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How long, right? All this wealththat the son took? How long did
it take him to burn through allof that? And it wasn't even just
when he burned through it,right? He also then even tried
to get by on his own, feedingpigs, right working for the
swine farmer. So how long did ittake for him to come home? But
as I was thinking, his fatherwalks his son down the driveway,
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sees his son leave, disappearsin the distance, and I don't
think he ever left the end ofthe driveway. I think he just
stood there, waiting, waiting,waiting with great hope,
trusting that one day his sonwould return to him right, just
like God the Father does for us.
So this father waited. Do I havethat patience? Can I wait and
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all those things that I want tosee, you know, turned around or
resolved, whatever thesituations might be, whether
they're spiritual, physical,financial, mental, any of them,
I'm waiting for the Lord to fixthem, to correct them. Again,
putting my own solutions of whatI think he needs to do to the
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side. I need to just trust thathe has an awesome plan and just
wait. Can I have the patience ofthat father in the prodigal son?
A couple of months ago,I was on a retreat, a great
retreat, I think I shared alittle bit about it, and as I
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was preparing this podcast, oneof the lines from the retreat
came back to me as I was talkingabout waiting and just praying,
about waiting and havingpatience and and I think this
line, it's so appropriate,particularly with us being in
this season of Lent as weapproach, as we approach Holy
Week in a couple weeks, and allthe, All the the suffering that
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the Lord went through, the storyof the passion. And there was a
question that was posed to us onthis retreat. Here's the
question, what's the differencebetween Judas and Peter? Peter
had the patience to wait threemore days. Oh, do I have the
patience to wait three more daysin those areas of my life that I
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feel so challenged, but thosesituations just they seem like
they need fixing right now, butthe Lord hasn't forgotten about
it. He hasn't right. Judas andPeter, they both betrayed. They
both denied Jesus. They bothhated themselves for what they
did. But Peter had the patienceto wait three more days, and it
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was glorious. It was so good. Itwas worth the wait, and
sometimeswe just can't understand what's
going on. We just have to trustand we just have to wait. As I'm
saying this, I'm remindedthere's I have a friend, he
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sends me this link, like everyyear there. It's a great sermon
from 1973 It's Billy Graham, andhe's preaching on a line from
Habakkuk. And you know, Habakkukwas saying something to Lord,
like, where are you? Have youforgotten about us? What the
heck is going on? And Habakkuksays, like, I'm not going to
tell you what I'm doing, becauseyou wouldn't believe me. And so
Billy Graham just startspreaching on this. And he says.
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If God told us what he wasdoing, we wouldn't believe him,
right? If God told us what hewas doing in the world today, it
doesn't matter if it's 1973 or2025 if God told us what he was
doing in the world today, wewouldn't believe him, because we
don't understand. We can't see,His ways are not our ways. His
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ways are so far above our ways.
He would they would blow ourminds, right? And as I spoke
earlier, I know I can fall intothis trap that I know exactly
what the Lord needs to do, andI'm waiting for him to do it.
But that's not right. That's notwhat's happening. I need to come
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to the Lord in great humilityand trust, full of hope that he
has an awesome plan, and he'sabout that plan. He's working to
fix everything. And if he toldme what he was working on, it's
so great, I probably wouldn'teven believe him. If God told us
what he was doing in the worldtoday, we wouldn't believe him.
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And so with that sense of hope,right that that hope that st
Peter had just the patience forwaiting three more days, that
hope that we experience thestrength that we experience when
we hope in the Lord and rememberhis faithfulness to us, we don't
grow faint. We don't grow wearywhen we have
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that patience of waiting likethe father and the prodigal son,
right? So using these very I'dsay they're kind of practical
spiritual guides, theseencouragements as we approach
these situations. Again, here onCatholic money talk, we talk
about financial things, and, youknow, I opened up with the
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podcast that there's probablysome financial situations in
your life, right? Somecircumstances that you're
waiting for them to change.
Maybe it's an income thing,maybe it's a debt thing,
maybe it's a job thing, a homething,
different goals that we mighthave, or maybe it's some other
challenge or a differentsituation that we're waiting to
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be resolved, just so you canmove on to the next thing.
Right? It's just taking so longand it's so exhausting and
you're growing so weary. I wouldencourage you to pray and
reflect on Isaiah 40 verse 30,that hoping in the Lord he will
renew your strength.
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Be reminded of that patientfather and the prodigal son.
And as we get to Holy Week,reflect on Judas and Peter.
Peter had the patience to waitthree more days. So this is some
of the journey that I'm on. ThisLent learning to be patient, to
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be humble, to submit to theLord's plan and to wait
patiently on him with great hopeand with great trust. Because I
know, I know he has an awesomeplan for all of us. So good
things come to those who wait onthe Lord. So as we wait for our
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lent to finish, and we approachHoly Week and the joy that we
are met with in Easter, in thisparticular Jubilee Year of hope,
let's learn to hope in the Lord,to wait on Him, because He will
never let us down. We need totrust that he has a great, great
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plan for us because he does so.
I hope this has been anencouragement to you this day. I
hope that this has been helpful.
Thank you for joining me today.
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Paul, Welcome to Catholic moneytalk, where we talk about all
things money and finance, and wetry to do it through a lens of
being Catholic, where ourultimate goal is to one day be
in Heaven with the Lord. I amyour host. Paul Scarfone, thank
you for being here today.
Welcome back to Catholic moneytalk. Today, I want to talk
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about a phrase that many of usare probably familiar with, and
that is good things come tothose who wait. But before we do
that, let's say a prayer in thename of the Father and of the
Son of the Holy Spirit. Amen,Heavenly Father. We thank you
for this day. We thank you forall the ways that you love and
bless us, Lord, we thank You forthis season of Lent in which we
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get to turn our hearts to you,remembering the great sacrifices
that you made for us, Lord God,that you carried out our awesome
plan of salvation to bring us toyou. Thank you, Lord, for
conquering death and all thatkeeps us from you. Lord, bless
us in particular with all thesituations we might find
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ourselves in, Lord, we know thatyou have a great plan and that
you love us so much allow us toyield to your Holy Spirit. We
ask all this in Jesus name,amen, in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the HolySpirit Amen. So good things come
to those who wait. Boy, I feellike I've heard that a lot when
I was a little kid, probablybeing impatient because I wanted
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something, right? Maybe it wasmy turn with a toy or a game, if
you're right, at a playground,or maybe it was, I don't know,
some edible treat, a snack, adessert, ice cream, whatever it
was, right that I was lackingpatience for maybe I had to wait
in line and my parents or maybeother adults around me would
say, Paul, you have to bepatient. Good things come to
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those who wait. Well. When welook at things in our life, and
we'll talk about our financiallife here, we need to remember
that as well. Good things cometo those who wait. We might have
some big goals that are in frontof us that we're trying to
tackle. Maybe we're waiting fora new opportunity. Maybe it's a
job, maybe it's for a home to goon sale that we're waiting for a
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home to come on sale that'sfinally in our price range, or
maybe it's some otheropportunity. Maybe it's a bill
we're trying to pay off, or asavings goal that we're getting
close to, and we know that wehave to be persistent in our
efforts, right, diligent in ourefforts. As we wait and the good
things will come, we'll arriveat that goal which we've been
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working towards, right? We'llfind that opportunity we've been
searching for, that we've beenwaiting for, but waiting is
hard, and sometimes, you know,God has a great plan. There's
been times in my life wheremaybe it was a job I really
wanted, or a house. I remembermany situations, a house that we
really wanted, we trying to finda house. We make an offer, and
it doesn't get accepted, and wego, oh man. And then a couple
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weeks later, another housethat's even better comes on the
market, and we're able to get itright. So the Lord's always
looking out for us and workingto help us achieve our goals.
But waiting can be hard,especially when we don't
understand the plan.
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And I think for myself, as Ireflect on this Lent,
what are some of the things thatthe Lord's been putting on my
heart and working with me thisLent and waiting, waiting on
him, that's a big one. So it wasa couple weeks ago I put my my
two little guys to bed, and Ihad just read them their story,
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and I was sitting there and Iwas just pondering a few
different situations in my lifewhere I am waiting for the Lord
to act. I'm waiting for him toshow up and fix something I'm
I'm actually waiting for him todo what I want him to do. Right?
Let me say it like that. I don'tlike waiting for the Lord to do
the things that I want him todo, because I know what's best,
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right? I know what he should befocused on, what he should be
working on, and I don't likewaiting for him to do the things
that I want him to do. Then, asI was saying this to Lord, and I
thought, You know what, I've gota few extra moments here. I need
to have some more prayer time,because I'm really wrestling
with this. I'm exhausted andtired of waiting for the Lord,
so I grabbed my Bible, I grabbedmy prayer journal, and that's I
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was writing down a few things. Istarted writing my prayer
journal. I said, Lord, I'm sotired. I am so tired. I am
weary. I'm waiting for you. I'mwaiting and I'm exhausted. I
just need you to do the thingsthat I need you to do, and
immediately I just felt like theLord led me to Isaiah, 40,
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verse, 30. So what does thatsay? Though young men faint and
grow weary. You and youthstagger and fall. They that hope
in the Lord, will renew theirstrength, and they will soar on
eagle's wings. They will run andnot grow weary, walk and not
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grow faint.
So let me read that again.
Isaiah, 40, verse, 30,though young men faint and grow
weary, and youth stagger andfall, they that hope in the Lord
will renew their strength. Theywill soar on eagle's wings. They
will run and not grow weary,walk and not grow faint. And
I've heard that differently attimes. And I think I've got a
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shirt, a printed shirt my wifewould give me that says they
that wait on the Lord will renewtheir strength, right? And I
think hoping in the Lord andwaiting on the Lord, they mean
the same thing in the sense of,there's a trust that we must
have in the Lord, that the Lordwill come through. And when I
look back at my life, right? Imentioned the the house, and
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there's been jobs and differentthings, I can see all those
moments where he did comethrough, and I need to, I
constantly need to be remindedof that, that he is so faithful,
so that I can continue to trusthim. I need to trust him. So in
that moment, I said, Lord, youknow, I'm so exhausted, I'm so
weary, I'm so tired for you todo the things that I think you
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should be doing, and you're notdoing them, and I can't take
this anymore. And then hereminds me of that scripture
verse. It was a day or twolater, I was meeting with my
spiritual director, father,John, and I mentioned this to
him, and he immediately says,oh, Paul, we just had a reading
at mass about this. He pulls outhis Bible, and he opens up, I
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think it was Sirach two, verse10, and he looks at me, he says,
Paul, reading from his Bible.
Have you ever hoped in the Lordand been disappointed? And I
look at him like, yeah, all thetime. And he said to me, then
you're not hoping in the Lord.
Wow. That hurt, right? He said,Have you ever hoped in the Lord
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and been disappointed? I said,Yes. And then he said, but then
you're not hoping in the Lord,and it's so true.
Right? In the moment, I didn'twant to talk to him anymore,
right? I didn't want to hearthat. I don't want to hear that
I'm wrong, but it's so true.
I wasn't hoping in the Lord.
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Instead, I was hoping in thethings that I wanted him to do.
I was hoping in my ownexpectations for what I think is
best for me and for my familyand for the community that I
live in and for so many othersaround me. But instead, I need
to hope in the Lord. I need towait for him. I need to trust
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that he has a perfect plan toget us all to heaven, right? All
the people I care about, all ofyou listening, right? We need to
trust that he has a perfectplan. Why? Because he does. He
does have a perfect plan. That'swhy He created us. I talk about
this. He created us to know Him,love Him, and serve Him in this
life so we can be happy with himforever in the next that's his
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plan for us to get to heaven,and he's constantly working that
plan, even when we mess it up,right? We're reminded in Romans
828, we know that he works allthings to the good for those who
love Him and who are calledaccording to His purpose. So as
long as we're trying our best toseek His will, even when he mess
when we mess up, he's gonna workall those things to the good for
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those who love Him and who arecalled according to His purpose.
He's trying to get us to heaven.
He's constantly working on that.
So we need to trust that he'sgot a plan. We have to wait on
the Lord. We have to havepatience. We have to have
patience. Shortly after myconversation with my spiritual
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director a couple weeks ago, Iwas in at mass, and I was
praying, and all of a sudden Istarted thinking of the story of
the story of the prodigal son,and it wasn't part of the mass
readings for the day, but thethought the story just came to
my mind as I was praying aboutwaiting on the Lord and and I
know for many of us, right, wewent to a mass where they were
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doing the second scrutiny, forthe the folks making their
sacraments at at at Easter. Butfor everyone else, fourth Sunday
of Lent year, see was theprodigal son. The story the
prodigal son. So this is kind oftimely talking about this, but I
was praying and in the at mass,and the story of the prodigal
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son came to my mind, and I'veheard it so many times. I. Heard
it preached on I've hearddifferent reflections right of
the story, and many times Imight find myself relating to
the younger son, or maybesometimes it's the older son.
But this Sunday, as I waspraying, I was thinking about
the father, the father who waswaiting for his son to return,
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and how long he waited.
So in my mind, kind of how I seethe story. I imagine when his
son was leaving, the fatherwalked his son down the
driveway, right with with halfof his whole estate, right that
he gave to him. And, you know,side note, his father must have
been so wealthy, right to thinkhe gave his son half of
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everything he owned, and the dadstill stayed in the house and on
the property and still had afatted calf and other servants,
so he gave him halfway like thiswas a very wealthy dad, I think
of what his personal financialstatement must have looked like.
He gave everything he owned tohis son, right, half of
everything he owned to his son,and his life didn't change. I
mean, if I gave half of what Iown away, I would have nothing,
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right? I'd be sitting in a housewith no money and no cars and
whatever, because our house isso much of our, you know, our
personal financial statement. SoI'm just thinking about the vast
amount of wealth that thisfather gave his son, and he
walks him down the driveway andsays goodbye to him and doesn't
move right? In my mind, this isthe story he watches him leave.
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How long, right? All this wealththat the son took? How long did
it take him to burn through allof that? And it wasn't even just
when he burned through it,right? He also then even tried
to get by on his own, feedingpigs, right working for the
swine farmer. So how long did ittake for him to come home? But
as I was thinking, his fatherwalks his son down the driveway,
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sees his son leave, disappearsin the distance, and I don't
think he ever left the end ofthe driveway. I think he just
stood there, waiting, waiting,waiting with great hope,
trusting that one day his sonwould return to him right, just
like God the Father does for us.
So this father waited. Do I havethat patience? Can I wait and
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all those things that I want tosee, you know, turned around or
resolved, whatever thesituations might be, whether
they're spiritual, physical,financial, mental, any of them,
I'm waiting for the Lord to fixthem, to correct them. Again,
putting my own solutions of whatI think he needs to do to the
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side. I need to just trust thathe has an awesome plan and just
wait. Can I have the patience ofthat father in the prodigal son?
A couple of months ago,I was on a retreat, a great
retreat, I think I shared alittle bit about it, and as I
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was preparing this podcast, oneof the lines from the retreat
came back to me as I was talkingabout waiting and just praying,
about waiting and havingpatience and and I think this
line, it's so appropriate,particularly with us being in
this season of Lent as weapproach, as we approach Holy
Week in a couple weeks, and allthe, All the the suffering that
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the Lord went through, the storyof the passion. And there was a
question that was posed to us onthis retreat. Here's the
question, what's the differencebetween Judas and Peter? Peter
had the patience to wait threemore days. Oh, do I have the
patience to wait three more daysin those areas of my life that I
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feel so challenged, but thosesituations just they seem like
they need fixing right now, butthe Lord hasn't forgotten about
it. He hasn't right. Judas andPeter, they both betrayed. They
both denied Jesus. They bothhated themselves for what they
did. But Peter had the patienceto wait three more days, and it
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was glorious. It was so good. Itwas worth the wait, and
sometimeswe just can't understand what's
going on. We just have to trustand we just have to wait. As I'm
saying this, I'm remindedthere's I have a friend, he
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sends me this link, like everyyear there. It's a great sermon
from 1973 It's Billy Graham, andhe's preaching on a line from
Habakkuk. And you know, Habakkukwas saying something to Lord,
like, where are you? Have youforgotten about us? What the
heck is going on? And Habakkuksays, like, I'm not going to
tell you what I'm doing, becauseyou wouldn't believe me. And so
Billy Graham just startspreaching on this. And he says.
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If God told us what he wasdoing, we wouldn't believe him,
right? If God told us what hewas doing in the world today, it
doesn't matter if it's 1973 or2025 if God told us what he was
doing in the world today, wewouldn't believe him, because we
don't understand. We can't see,His ways are not our ways. His
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ways are so far above our ways.
He would they would blow ourminds, right? And as I spoke
earlier, I know I can fall intothis trap that I know exactly
what the Lord needs to do, andI'm waiting for him to do it.
But that's not right. That's notwhat's happening. I need to come
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to the Lord in great humilityand trust, full of hope that he
has an awesome plan, and he'sabout that plan. He's working to
fix everything. And if he toldme what he was working on, it's
so great, I probably wouldn'teven believe him. If God told us
what he was doing in the worldtoday, we wouldn't believe him.
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And so with that sense of hope,right that that hope that st
Peter had just the patience forwaiting three more days, that
hope that we experience thestrength that we experience when
we hope in the Lord and rememberhis faithfulness to us, we don't
grow faint. We don't grow wearywhen we have
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that patience of waiting likethe father and the prodigal son,
right? So using these very I'dsay they're kind of practical
spiritual guides, theseencouragements as we approach
these situations. Again, here onCatholic money talk, we talk
about financial things, and, youknow, I opened up with the
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podcast that there's probablysome financial situations in
your life, right? Somecircumstances that you're
waiting for them to change.
Maybe it's an income thing,maybe it's a debt thing,
maybe it's a job thing, a homething,
different goals that we mighthave, or maybe it's some other
challenge or a differentsituation that we're waiting to
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be resolved, just so you canmove on to the next thing.
Right? It's just taking so longand it's so exhausting and
you're growing so weary. I wouldencourage you to pray and
reflect on Isaiah 40 verse 30,that hoping in the Lord he will
renew your strength.
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Be reminded of that patientfather and the prodigal son.
And as we get to Holy Week,reflect on Judas and Peter.
Peter had the patience to waitthree more days. So this is some
of the journey that I'm on. ThisLent learning to be patient, to
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be humble, to submit to theLord's plan and to wait
patiently on him with great hopeand with great trust. Because I
know, I know he has an awesomeplan for all of us. So good
things come to those who wait onthe Lord. So as we wait for our
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lent to finish, and we approachHoly Week and the joy that we
are met with in Easter, in thisparticular Jubilee Year of hope,
let's learn to hope in the Lord,to wait on Him, because He will
never let us down. We need totrust that he has a great, great
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plan for us because he does so.
I hope this has been anencouragement to you this day. I
hope that this has been helpful.
Thank you for joining me today.
God bless. Thank you forlistening to Catholic money
talk. I hope you join us againnext time, please click
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