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Now<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your actions!\u00a0\u00bb Ag 1, 5.<\/span>

Our<\/span><\/strong> life is constantly rained: work, children we have to put in school and their classes, checks we have to pay, distances we have to cover.\u00a0Even if we do everything we can, we have to admit that we are not keeping up, which is why it seems strange that the Holy Scriptures call us in several places to stop and think.\u00a0Why do we strain so much?\u00a0What are our desires and goals?\u00a0How do we want to achieve them?\u00a0Do we even think about God, his requirements, and his will? <\/span>God wants us to work.\u00a0Do we work and live to honor him and help others?\u00a0What hierarchy of values \u200b\u200bdo we profess?\u00a0Let’s look at ourselves objectively.\u00a0We are not just looking for excuses and alibis.\u00a0Is it in our interest and for our good?<\/span>

In<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0previous decades, during the era of building socialism, ideological materialism was enforced.\u00a0Pragmatic materialism is voluntary.\u00a0Respects civil liberties.\u00a0He doesn’t impose anything on our actions; he doesn’t argue with us. He offers enticingly. Once we ask what is the meaning of our life, today we ask what is our standard of living. An ethic based on self-sacrifice seems to have died out.\u00a0Man will no longer give up his interests for a supra-personal ideal or the common good.<\/span>

Let’s take <\/span><\/strong>seriously the warning of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who pointed out that the world that man has created for himself surrounds him from all sides and becomes a prison for him, thus leading him to cry out for freedom and something completely different. Silence must be learned if work and life are to retain meaning because science without values \u200b\u200bbecomes a nightmare and the main defendant of all development. Ideology is the trump card where the desire for wisdom, for contemplation, and for inner freedom does not even shy away. If we realize we are acting unwisely, let us have the courage to change.<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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