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A life of discipleship – it’s a hard sell.

The life of a disciple means more than giving up an hour or so on Sundays to come to Mass. It’s more than participating in a club you belong to. It’s more than trying to do the right thing. To be a disciple goes to the very core of who we are. It is a call to be followers of Jesus.

For those who followed Jesus 2000 years ago it meant leaving family and not looking back. It meant choosing Jesus first and giving up everything to follow him. For us today it might not look the same, but the call of the disciple to place Jesus first in our life is ageless. That’s the hard sell, not to choose your ambition first, not your goals, not your desires, but Christ’s. I’ve lived life where I’ve chased down my own wants and desires and I’ve lived life where I have chosen Christ. Jesus’ way gives far more than it asks for. And what does Jesus ask for? The same thing he asked those people he encountered in Palestine, “Come, follow me.”

by Nattasha Mierendorf