🇻🇦🤝 Does Your Life Look Like an Action Movie? If You Have Faith It Should | Saintly CEO
A life of faith is a life filled with action. Growth. Rising bread. Mustard seeds that blossom to a sturdy tree.
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IN TODAY’S ISSUE
News/Updates/Events: We interviewed Tim Busch!
Feature Content: Faith = Catalyst (aka: action!)
Heavenly Hustlers
Highlights
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News / Updates / Events:
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With Faith, Your Life Should Look Like an Action Movie
This past Sunday we heard the parable of the Wheat and the Darnel (weeds). Also included in the readings was the woman who mixed the leaven in as well as the tiny mustard seed growing into a great tree (where birds can dwell within).
Seed. Leaven. Growth.
The scene this paints is one of motion.
Growth... Rising… The wheat that grows to maturity. Bread rising. Mustard seed becoming a tree (and a sturdy one at that).
It’s impossible to ignore the motion.
And what is the subject of all these? Faith.
Faith. Motion. Faith = catalyst.
We know (because Jesus tells us) that the seed is the word of God. Once received, what follows immediately is growth and motion. It becomes an action scene.
The growth doesn’t take place on its own, though. It requires external factors. Sunshine, water, nutrients. Wheat, oven, heat. The external factors are God’s grace that He supplies to us (in abundance).
Growth is evidence of true faith. Actually making use of the graces God sends.
Look at your own life; do you see that type of growth? Do you feel the motion? Are you accepting the gifts of water, sunshine, and nutrients God provides?
If not… might I suggest you avail yourself of more of those graces. Maybe you don’t have faith in the first place? If this is the case, you know where to start… the (divine) word.
Okay, I’ve yapped on about the lesson and how it’s evidence of our own lives. Are we a growing, living thing — or are we a stagnant, dying thing?
But the key thing I actually want to draw out here is agency. Agency — “you can just do things” — is about taking actions. However… rather than being ‘the hero’ and saving the day, when we take action, we are simply cooperating with God’s grace.
Our action… our agency, is primarily a mental consent/assent where we choose to accept God’s graces into our lives.
Getting on our knees to pray
Frequent Mass & confession
Welcoming Him in mentally
Going to adoration
All of these things are there, but we still need to avail ourselves of them. Even if the only thing you can manage is a small prayer before work every day. That’s still something.
Practicing saying yes to those small things here and there will build up the grace. Heaping it up into your soul. Filling and filling. Until if flows over. Spilling out into the world around. Only to continue growing and flowing. One day the souls of others around will also have their cups overflowing further. The fragrance sweet, the sight wonderful. God’s grace — enough of it for everyone.
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The wheat and the darnel will grow side by side to the end of time (the harvest). Will our roots be firm enough to withstand the culling of the darnel? Will our faith be mature enough that the workers could never mistake us for darnel?
Did we take agency and make use of the graces God prepared for us?
You’re an entrepreneur. I know you have agency in generous supply.
There is no excuse.
Finally, consider where God will lead you and what a beautiful, sturdy tree you can grow into if you receive these graces. If your faith leads to constant growth, how much good can you do for those around you? A branch for the birds. Shade for the traveler. Fruit for the hungry.
My prayer for you is that you allow that tiny seed to become an action scene so that you may grow into a sturdy tree — large and magnificent — firmly standing because you’re rooted in God.
God Bless & Happy Building
~Silas Mähner
Heavenly Hustlers
These are other Catholic business owners. Nominate one (including yourself).
🎬 John-Andrew O’Rourke is the president of Blackstone Films. Based out of the Denver area. They have produced a lot of really incredible films.
🎞️ Manny Marquez is the President of Remuda Pictures. He is a Tulsa-based documentary filmmaker specializing in storytelling within the Catholic and veteran sectors. He focuses on projects that aim to glorify God while supporting his family.
🐑 Brendan Murphy leads Leave the 99, a Florida-based non-profit organization focused on Catholic evangelization for young people through media productions, university campus chapters, and creative retreat programs.
⛑️ Erin Ford runs an independent health insurance business based in Frisco, Texas, specializing in customized PPO plans for individuals, families, and small businesses with fewer than 50 employees. She serves as an external HR resource, helping clients navigate insurance options while providing affordable, high-quality coverage solutions.
🙏 Br. Michael Seethaler is the founder of the Society of Ostians based in Beaumont, Texas (currently), a religious order that blends contemplative prayer with specialized evangelization to meet modern leadership needs. The group takes on projects focusing on internal community development and external ministry to the unchurched.
🏦 Louis Mayor is a financial professional at Rethink Wealth based in Houston, Texas, dedicated to serving Catholic families and professionals through stewardship-based financial planning.
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Highlights: Ice Cream in Dallas
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