{"id":990,"date":"2016-11-18T11:15:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T16:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/?page_id=990"},"modified":"2022-02-24T08:49:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T13:49:48","slug":"tuning-thought-frequency-god-advent-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/tuning-thought-frequency-god-advent-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuning in to the Thought Frequency of God &#8211; Advent 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"youtube-responsive-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YEVMaVbboTY?rel=0&amp;modestbranding=1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Father Anthony talks about God\u2019s dream for us, and how sometimes we fail to acknowledge it because of our own pride. He guides us through an exercise where we can proclaim our faith to the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for watching and participating in this retreat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Not Registered, yet? Don\u2019t miss the rest of the talks! 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God&#8217;s purpose in creating us is to draw forth from us a response of love and service here on earth, so that we may attain<br>our goal of everlasting happiness with him in heaven. <\/p><p>\u201cAll the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully. <\/p><p>\u201cAs a result, we ought to appreciate and use these gifts of God insofar as they help us toward our goal of loving service and union with God. But insofar as any created things hinder our progress toward our goal, we ought to let them go.\u201d<\/p><cite><em>Ignatius of Loyola<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>God sends us a desire, and that gets implanted in our hearts as a dream. What He wants us to do is to steward that dream; to protect it, nurture it and fan it. If we do well, then He will increase it and increase it. He will entrust big matters to us if we do well with the small matters He sends our way. Are there big dreams of yours that have yet to be realized? Is it possible that God is still waiting for you to take better care of the small matters He has sent and given to you? How can you do a better job of taking care of the small matters in your life, to show the Lord that you can be entrusted with more?<br><br><\/li><li>God does not want us to let our dreams die. Our dreams are gifts from Him. He implanted these desires within our hearts. Is there one dream, or more, that you have allowed to die down over the years? A dream that you have given up? Take this Advent season as an opportunity to spend more time in prayer with the Lord talking about this dream of yours. Pray for His will to be done with this dream, and be open to moving forward, with faith, with this dream.<br><br><\/li><li>When we say we can\u2019t do something for a reason like, \u201cBut I\u2019m too old\u201d or, \u201cBut I\u2019m too busy,\u201d or, \u201cBut I don\u2019t know anything about that,\u201d or, \u201cBut I have no idea how to start something like that,\u201d then we are thinking that God is not as powerful as our limitations. Can you think of the last time, maybe just this last week, that you said you couldn\u2019t do something because of your own limitations? Try to replace that sentence the next time you\u2019re talking about your own limitations, and try to rely more on the Lord. Trust in how powerful He is. Pray and don\u2019t worry. How else can you \u201cget over your but\u2019s\u201d as Fr. Anthony Co suggests?<br><br><\/li><li>Are there obstacles or distractions that are drowning out the <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/hearing-the-lords-voice-in-your-life-lent-2022\/\">voice of God in your life<\/a>? Can you start to eliminate those, one at a time? What can you do away with today?<br><br><\/li><li>The following thoughts are not from God:<ul><li>I\u2019m not good enough<\/li><li>I\u2019m not smart enough<\/li><li>I\u2019m not ______ enough<\/li><li>The next time one of these thoughts pop into your head, remind yourself that these are not from God, but from the enemy. Rebuke these thoughts. God created you in His image, and He thinks you\u2019re enough.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Text: Tuning in to the Thought Frequency of God<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Father Anthony Co:&nbsp;<\/strong>Good morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crowd:&nbsp;<\/strong>Good morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Important to Dream<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Father Anthony Co:&nbsp;<\/strong>It\u2019s so nice to see all of you. Beautiful day. Nice to see your smiling faces. And I don\u2019t know what happened buddy. No one wanted to sit next to you. It\u2019s just these things happen, right. Anybody like movies? Anybody watch movies, a lot of movies? Okay, a handful of people, 4 people. I came from that generation that all we did was watch movies. We didn\u2019t have anything else. Or we\u2019d play outside of course. So I love new movies. And I\u2019ve noticed that one theme, one topic that makes a lot of money for the movie business is the theme of dreams. Not the sleep dreams, dreams of the heart. And so they\u2019ll begin a movie, in the first 20 minutes they\u2019ll introduce the main character, who\u2019s usually a middle aged man or woman who\u2019s kind of a grump, curmudgeon, cynical, kind of jaded by life. Doesn\u2019t want to hope too big, because if you hope too big this world\u2019s going to dash your hopes to the ground. And then something happens. If it\u2019s Disney, some kind of magical character comes in, and this magical character, or thing, or situation reawakens the dreams of the character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the end of this adventure, the person starts to realize that life promises life. It\u2019s a wonderful life. That their dreams can come true. And I think these stories really appeal to us because, well, we have dreams. When we were little kids, we were superheroes, you know. We\u2019d fly around with capes, right. And then somehow, when we got middle aged, we lost our capes, and we\u2019re not quite sure what happened and we want to reclaim that somehow. And in the Christian life, dreaming is very important. It\u2019s so important. So, dreams begin in the thought, in the thoughts of the Lord. And He has all sorts of dreams for his abundance. His dreams make the impossible possible. For instance, sending Him, the second person, to take on human flesh, human life, saving those who are stuck in sin, opening the gates of paradise. And Jesus, of course, made impossible things happen. Walked on water, multiplied loaves and fish, healed the blind, the lame, the deaf. All of these different things. He made the impossible possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Kingdom Upgrade<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>And so what happens in the life of a Christian is we try to dial into the thought frequency of God. And what ends up happening is that he senses a desire and it gets implanted in our hearts. And what he wants us to do is to steward that dream, that little desire. It\u2019s a little flame. To protect it, to nurture it, to fan it into a bigger one. And if we do well with the flame that we\u2019ve been given, the desire, the dream, then He will increase it and increase it. We hear about this increase in today\u2019s gospel passage. It\u2019s a kingdom upgrade. You know what it\u2019s like to get an upgraded phone, right? Well, the Kingdom, whenever you hear that term, the Kingdom, it refers to Jesus and all of the treasures of heaven. So, God gives us Himself and its treasures, and if we do well with His treasures, \u201cAlright, you did well with small matters. Okay, you\u2019re ready for big matters.\u201d And He increases the treasury within our hands. The kingdom upgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What He says to us along the way is \u201cHere\u2019s the thing. Since I\u2019m the one who has the dreams, and you\u2019re the ones who live it out, don\u2019t reduce my dreams. Don\u2019t make them small. Like, hold on to them, and protect them. Let me show you how big they can be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Be Instrumental<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>So, just as a personal example in my own life, when I had my conversion, and then shortly after I felt called to the priesthood, I was really fresh, you know, fresh into the Christian life, and I began to listen to the thoughts of God. And God implanted within my heart a desire, a very unusual desire. And the desire was to be somehow instrumental in the renewal of the diocesan priesthood. Like, I didn\u2019t even know how to live the Christian life. I don\u2019t know what priests do exactly. But that desire was in my heart, and I knew I had to do something with it. So what does a 21 who doesn\u2019t know how to live the Christian life, you know, protect that desire? Well, I would talk to priests and ask them \u201cWhat do you guys need so that you can be happy and healthy and strong?\u201d Kind of daydream of what it might mean. And I\u2019d pray about it and think about it. And then I entered the seminary and I tried to learn how to just be a good Christian man. Still a work in progress, right? But trying to learn the basics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then I took history courses. And history courses showed me that there were times where figures would come into the church \u2013 popes, bishops, nuns, religious men, laypeople, movements of the spirit \u2013that would result in strong, healthy, diocesan priests. Parish priests, you know, on the frontlines, who were excited about the adventure of God. \u201cWhat was happening?\u201d I thought. I prayed about it. I eventually became a priest and, well, the long and short of it all is now the dream has very concrete expressions. You may not know this, but every week I have a bunch of priests come over for dinner. We meet here around 4:30 to pray Vespers Evening Prayer, and then they go over to the rectory, we crack open some bottles of wine, I throw some brats on the grill, and we have a great time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes it\u2019s up to about 10 people; sometimes it\u2019s small, about 3 people. And every time a person comes who\u2019s new, I tell the story of why I\u2019m doing this. I say \u201cThis started because I have a desire to provide an atmosphere for priests to build organic friendships with other priests so they know they\u2019re not alone, to talk about the most beautiful things in life: Jesus, the spirit of God. To get renewed in laughter and joy.\u201d And I say \u201cYou know, I have one personal request as you come into this house. You may have frustrations with your own diocese.\u201d I have priests come over from Davenport also. \u201cSo you may be frustrated with things in your diocese or your own parish. Those have a place, and there\u2019s a conversation for that, but can you just leave that stuff outside? We\u2019re going to talk about other things. We\u2019re going to talk about the joy of Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Talking About The Joy of Jesus<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>And amazing things happen. It\u2019s just so cool. So, last time we had a big gathering. Father Guillermo, who\u2019s over across the river, finished his first year of their priesthood, and I wanted to honor him. So all of the priests were talking around the dinner table. I said \u201cHey, Father Guillermo. You know, you\u2019ve been a priest one year now. What advice would you give yourself if you could go back in time in a time machine and talk to yourself the second day after ordination?\u201d And he\u2019s a funny guy, he said something funny, I wish I could remember. And then he gave some wisdom, and all the guys were listening. I asked father&#8230; I always get this wrong, Niemeyer? Is that how you say his name? Niemeyer? Niemiller? Niemiller. Father Niemiller is a little bit older. He did the same thing. Beautiful nuggets of wisdom. Guys were leaving and saying \u201cI haven\u2019t had a priest dinner like this before.\u201d Because usually when priests get together they talk about problem- solving, and things that frustrate them, and the works of not God, but of the evil one. Well, we don\u2019t need to talk about that stuff. And so God is telling you \u201cDon\u2019t reduce my dream Father Anthony. It may be 8 priests now, but one day it might be 10 priests, and then 100 priests, and then 1000 priests, and then a nation of priests that you may be able to influence, to help renew their hearts, to stay focused on the most important things.\u201d And I say yes to that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Not As Powerful As My Limitations<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, here\u2019s the problem. So, we\u2019re having a conversation about how to steward the dreams of God. Beautiful topic, it makes our hearts happy, God has a dream for us. But there are problems, there\u2019s obstacles. The number one obstacle, the first obstacle, is that, now listen closely: We have problems with our buts. Anybody have a problem with their buts? But problems? You think \u201cHow does Father know I just went to the doctor?\u201d No, I\u2019m not talking about \u201cbutts\u201d, \u201cbuts\u201d. Anybody? \u201cBut, I\u2019m not smart enough.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m too young.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m too old.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m this, I\u2019m that.\u201d You know, I understand where that comes from. That actually is born out of pride. Those statements, we think their humility, it\u2019s born of pride. \u201cGod is not as powerful as my limitations.\u201d That\u2019s what we\u2019re saying. And in the bible, if you look at the bible and you read the bible, it\u2019s a series of men and women who took their&#8230; whatever they had in life, they said yes to Jesus, amazing things happened. Amazing things happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, we\u2019ve to get rid of our buts, you know, stop having problems with our buts. I like saying that, sorry. The second problem, second problem is that we don\u2019t think Jesus or God the Father wants to talk to us. What are you talking about? I went through 12 years of Catholic education. The nuns were awesome, they loved me. They never talked about God talking to us. God wants to speak to you. How can He have us live out His dreams if He doesn\u2019t talk to us? So, if we\u2019re 84 years old and we\u2019ve never heard the voice of God, we\u2019ve got to go to class. We\u2019ve got to ask Him to teach us to listen to His voice, to figure out if we have obstacles that are kind of drowning out the voice of God. We\u2019ve got the figure that out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Artificial Categories<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The third is: for some reason, we look at all of the choices of our lives and we artificially make a category. One category is: The choices that God cares about. The other category is: The choices in our lives, the things that we decide, that God doesn\u2019t care about; he\u2019s indifferent about. And that\u2019s not true. Every decision that we make, from whether we buy shoes with Velcro on them, to where we put our money, in a Vibrant Credit Union, or if we go to Jim\u2019s Ribs tonight. Every decision that we make, before we were created, God set aside all the good choices He wanted us to consider so that the maximum grace and the Kingdom of God could come and pour out throughout the land. And so, when we realize that that\u2019s true, it opens us up to new possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, do you know where the lies that \u201cI\u2019m not good enough,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m not smart enough,\u201d or \u201cGod doesn\u2019t want to talk to me,\u201d or \u201cHe doesn\u2019t care about certain things in my life\u201d come from? Do you guys know where that comes from? That comes from like the deepest recesses of the pit of hell. And as Christians, we rebuke those things. We say \u201cThat is not true.\u201d If you have those thoughts floating in your mind, that\u2019s not of God, that\u2019s not of the spirit; that\u2019s the devil. You have the devil in your mind. You\u2019ve got to get rid of it. \u201cIn the name of Jesus, get out.\u201d Now, the first place that we start is we rebuke those things, and we declare the truth of what God says. And so this is the interactive part of the homily, okay. I\u2019m going to ask you a series of questions, and if you agree with these statements, it doesn\u2019t really matter if you feel the truth of these statements. We agree with the truth and we start from there. If you agree with these statements, when I say \u201camen\u201d, you say \u201camen\u201d. Got it? Well, let me start hear it first off. The women. Alright, \u201camen\u201d women. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crowd:&nbsp;<\/strong>Amen.<br><strong>Father Anthony Co:&nbsp;<\/strong>The men, \u201camen\u201d.&nbsp;<strong>Crowd:&nbsp;<\/strong>Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Father Anthony Co:&nbsp;<\/strong>Amen. There\u2019s more manly men on this side than this side for whatever reason. Okay. So here\u2019s the question: God has a beautiful plan for the choices that we make here at St. Mary\u2019s Catholic parish to spread the Kingdom of God through us. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crowd:&nbsp;<\/strong>Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Father Anthony Co:&nbsp;<\/strong>Amen. God wants to speak to us as a parish, so that we can make the impossible possible. But He\u2019ll do it through us. The impossible possible. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crowd:&nbsp;<\/strong>Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Father Anthony Co:&nbsp;<\/strong>Amen. God cares about every choice that we make here as a family, and every choice that we make He cares about and it\u2019s important for His Kingdom. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crowd:&nbsp;<\/strong>Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Father Anthony Co:&nbsp;<\/strong>Amen. That\u2019s awesome. You guys are amazing. Thanks for playing my game here. That was the easy part, because we can hide behind numbers of people, you know. But when it becomes the first person singular, then we get scared and weirded out. So we\u2019re going to do this again, but I\u2019m going to say \u201cMe\u201d, and that \u201cme\u201d is you. God is going to use me to make the impossible possible in this world. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crowd:&nbsp;<\/strong>Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Father Anthony Co:&nbsp;<\/strong>Amen. God is going to speak His dreams into my mind and my heart. Sometimes when I\u2019m awake, sometimes when I\u2019m asleep, sometimes through visions, sometimes through scripture, sometimes through people who love me, as He implants desires in my heart to follow His ways. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crowd:&nbsp;<\/strong>Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Father Anthony Co:&nbsp;<\/strong>Amen. Every choice that I make in my life has been set aside for a beautiful purpose, and God wants me to think about that, and pray about that, and discern that, because they matter. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crowd:&nbsp;<\/strong>Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Limitation is In the Heart<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Father Anthony Co:&nbsp;<\/strong>Amen. It\u2019s hard to get over those obstacles, because I know many people take years to struggle with it. And the limitation is the human heart. When we say \u201cGod, you can\u2019t do that.\u201d He\u2019s not going to force us. He\u2019s not going to do it. That\u2019s the beginning. And you might be thinking \u201cWell, then what\u2019s the how-to Father? Like, what do we do next? Let\u2019s say we overcome those humps.\u201d In your goal tonight, put a guide to discern the voice of God.\u201d Maybe you\u2019re at a point in your life where you\u2019re like \u201cYou know, I thought I heard God\u2019s voice, and now I think He\u2019s changing directions, or I\u2019m confused.\u201d When that happens, you go <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/back-basics-part-iii-advent-2017\/\">back to basics<\/a>. Refer to that guide. In the guide, you\u2019ll hear about how God plants desires in our hearts, that we have to be radically detached from our agendas so as to hear God\u2019s dreams, which are way better than anything we can conceive of, that we can only succeed when we listen. That God cares about our hearts, and making us to be a part of His wonderful plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s gospel is about kingdom upgrades. We do well with what\u2019s put before us, we protect the desire, we protect the flame, and it will grow and grow and grow. And you know what? Think about St. Francis. Think about all of the hospitals, and the nursing homes, and whatever named after St. Francis. You know, here he was a thousand years ago or so, this poor beggar who just yes to Jesus. And you know what\u2019s interesting? He got even kicked out of his own order. And so the successes of this world do not necessarily look like the success of God\u2019s plan. But he had lasting legacy of abundance and blessing. One man saying yes. A dreamer. And God will make us dreamers, dreamers of His mind, His heart, and His plan for this place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">About Father Anthony Co<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"382\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Tony-Headshot-1.jpg\" alt=\"tony-headshot\" class=\"wp-image-963 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Tony-Headshot-1.jpg 310w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Tony-Headshot-1-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/speaker-fr-anthony-co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Father Anthony Co<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;grew up in the western suburbs of Chicago. While completing his studies of philosophy and Eastern religions at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, Fr. Anthony received his calling to the priesthood. Immediately after graduating from U of I, Fr. Anthony entered Mt. St. Mary\u2019s Seminary and for the next five years he prepared for Holy Orders for the Diocese of Peoria, IL. He was ordained to the priesthood at St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception in 2005 and offered his Mass of Thanksgiving on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. Father Anthony has served throughout the Diocese of Peoria, ministering to college students and various parishes. He is now pastor of St. Patrick&#8217;s Catholic Church in Andalusia and a college chaplain.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tuning-in-to-the-thought-frequency-of-god-image.jpg\" alt=\"tuning-in-to-the-thought-frequency-of-god-image\" class=\"wp-image-952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tuning-in-to-the-thought-frequency-of-god-image.jpg 800w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tuning-in-to-the-thought-frequency-of-god-image-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tuning-in-to-the-thought-frequency-of-god-image-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tuning-in-to-the-thought-frequency-of-god-image-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"701\" height=\"316\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/The-Pray-More-Retreat-image.jpg\" alt=\"the-pray-more-retreat-image\" class=\"wp-image-969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/The-Pray-More-Retreat-image.jpg 701w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/The-Pray-More-Retreat-image-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Father Anthony talks about God\u2019s dream for us, and how sometimes we fail to acknowledge it because of our own pride. 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