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I had the honor of interviewing John Kinuthia, a Catholic Speaker, Confidence Leadership Coach and Podcaster, on a Facebook Live video.

You can watch and/or listen to the interview by clicking here: Awaken the Saint Within You: An interview with John Kinuthia

John’s Ministry, Awaken the Saint Within, was inspired by the book written by Tony Robbins, Awake the Giant Within .

This phrase, Awake the _______ Within, seemed to keep popping up in John’s life . . . and it got him thinking.

Isn’t our first calling to be holy? To be a Saint?

So, as Tony Robbins seeks to offer effective strategies and techniques for mastering your emotions, your body, your relationships, your finances, and your life; John found his mission was different.

With Awaken the Saint Within Ministries, John Kinuthia offers strategies and techniques to find God’s desire in your heart and encourage you to go on a mission to find God’s will for you and embrace it each and every day.

John encourages us to love God. He motivates people to change in order to know Jesus better and follow Him in total trust and confidence. Even when things are not going well.

John and I spoke for about an hour. You can listen and/or view the whole conversation here: Awakening the Saint Within Us Interview

These tips were just some of the advice John gave all who would listen.

3 Tips to Awaken the Saint Within

1.Take an honest look at what is the first thing you do in the morning

One act John inspired in my own life since this conversation, is to pray a prayer of thanksgiving for my husband each morning before I get out of bed. John had us really thinking about loving God more and how to evaluate how much we actually love God above all things . . . he asked a simple question:

“What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?”

When I asked myself this question, I quickly realized my answer was not “pray”.

It was not to thank the Lord that I woke up or for the family that is in my home.

He asked it gently. It made me think – and he made all of us aware that awakening the Saint within us is very possible. Small steps can truly move us closer to Our Eternal Father!

2.Make a daily commitment to get to know God better

John reminded us that a personal relationship with Jesus is a daily commitment.

My reaction to John was to ask him, “but how? How do we get to know God better?“

When you wake up, say a spontaneous prayer. For example: “Lord Almighty, good morning! Please remind me of my mission today!”

Read Scripture!

We can’t text God or call Him on the phone – but we can listen to Him and hear His will in Sacred Scripture. Don’t know where to start? Kinuthia recommends the Gospel of John – Chapter 17!

Again, back to number one – make God a priority each day. Feed your heart and soul first every morning. Even if it is with a short prayer like:

“Lord, I thank you, I believe that you are here.”

3.Do not define yourself by what you do NOT have

“Saints don’t compare themselves with other Saints.”

John made this statement and made me think of the saying, “comparison is the thief of joy.”

John advises us to take a good look at what we are thinking about. He advises us to have true confidence in Christ.

Having true confidence in Christ requires us to:

*lay down your life for Jesus

*be grateful for the little things

*know that you area beloved child of God

John is a big advocate of prayer journaling. Writing what you are grateful for is an awesome daily practice.

When you have a negative thought – find the positive side of it.

Change your thoughts and fill your heart with gratitude.

John gave so many more practical tips in our interview! I strongly recommend you listen! We discussed preparing for Mass; how do deal with suffering, what to say to a teen who claims Mass is boring and more. Here is the link to listen: Awakening the Saint Within Us

Let’s re-cap!

1. We are to love God with all our heart, soul and mind! Talk to God first thing upon waking up each morning! Ask Him to remind you of your mission and thank Him for the people in your life!
2. Put effort into your relationship with Christ. Read Scripture, be grateful, prepare yourself for Mass – and lots more suggestion on the video!
3. What you lack does not define you. Think of all you have been blessed with and find your identity in those blessings!

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She then listed the 5,000 things she had to do on a daily basis.  After that she said some sweet things and stated that she had to run to “bathe the dogs”.  Not one dog – plural dogs.  She had to go bathe more than one dog and that did not make it on her first list of things that made her feel overwhelmed.

Part of me thinks she may have written to the wrong person.

Maybe she thinks I am that cute organization blogger.  Maybe she just needs about two more days of knowing me before she realizes how unqualified I am to write a post about finding time for anything.

Or maybe . . . God just wants her to stop being so hard on herself.

God has a huge sense of humor, so it is quite possible that He thought – “Oh honey, you are not a mess . . . I’ll show you a MESS! . . .”

And here I am  Always here to provide a good laugh.  Like that time I was at a bar/restaurant and thought I was walking over to my friends but I was actually walking into a glass wall.

Since I know I am bad at time management, and organization in general, I can share advice that other people have given me.

1. Pray the Rosary – I did not say – nor has Our Lady said – “pray the Rosary well”.  I read a quote in the past year that said something like, “A distracted Rosary is better than no Rosary”.  I can’t find who said it (because I am disorganized), but I know that was the gist of it.  So, I took out the two year old and the three year old and let them play while I prayed the Rosary.  I knew I would have to stop to break up an argument, remind them they can’t run down the street, answer three hundred questions, and “watch this” fifty five times.  But, I read that quote and thought, “any Rosary is better than no Rosary”! ** Check out “Gracious Words” on Christian Bling’s Website; it is a gorgeous bracelet that is also a complete Rosary.  I LOVE it.  It would be a great reminder to pray the Rosary everyday!
2. Go to Adoration – Before I became a parent, I went to adoration on a regular basis.  I usually stayed and prayed for an hour.  After our son was born, I found that I just couldn’t do it.  I was under the impression that I had to go for at least an hour.  But, then I had the pleasure of meeting Crystalina Evert at the Wine, Wisdom and What Now? Conference in Philadelphia. (Imagine that, I went to a conference with the name wine in the title).  Anyway . . . I got talking to Crystalina, who had her youngest baby with her.  Somehow we were talking about adoration and I must have said I can’t find the hour.  Crystalina said, “It doesn’t have to be an hour! It can be 10 minutes!”  I thought – 1. She totally gets it and 2. Oh.  Yeah.  1o minutes is better than not going at all!  Then I probably said, “duh”.  Why did I need someone else to tell me this?
3. Prayer does not have to be formal – I recently went to confession and my priest told me to be careful about how much I judge myself.  He said, “people ask me how I pray – I say I read Reader’s Digest”.  He was reminding me that prayer can be in many forms.  One time I was walking up the stairs with a load of laundry and had a thought – the thought was, “how can my prayers for women considering an abortion matter.  I know I don’t love them as much as God loves them.”  I thought it was just a thought – but God answered me in a BIG way.  God knows our hearts.  He is listening.  He is with us when we are matching socks, writing lesson plans, paying our mortgage and wiping snot.  It may not sound like the Gregorian Chant to us . . . but to Our Lord, who loves us more than we can ever imagine, it’s music to his ears.
4. Remember to “bloom where you are planted: Mother Teresa said, “It is easy to love the people far away,” . .. “It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home, for this is where our love for each other must start.”
5. Stop being so hard on yourself! – Okay, so this one is from me.  Trust me, you are doing a good job.  Yes you, you – if you are reading this – you are doing a great job!  You are so wonderful!!! God LOVES you!  I have to tell you what Father Shelly said (an awesome priest that has since retired) at every Mass, “Ladies and gentlemen, my parents loved me sooo much.  But their LOVE DOESN’T COMPARE TO THE LOVE GOD HAS FOR US!  Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, what God has ready for those who love Him!” You chose to read a post titled “When There is No Time for Prayer”.  You’re doing what you can – just keep going!

Thank you so much for reading this!!  Please feel free to leave prayer intentions and I will pray for you while I clean this horrifying office!!!

Update:  Still cleaning my office; but have to share this beautiful bracelet with you again.  I don’t earn money if it is sold – I just really love it that much!  Click her to purchase: Christian Bling – once you are on the website; search for “Gracious Words”.

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