Here's someone in my life, someone I love, some family member, whoever they are,

that has walked away from the faith or is living in kind of like open

rejection of the faith of some sort.

Here's four things that you can do today that'll help you just take that next step.

Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and this is Essentially presents.

A pain of loving people is not only people sometimes hard to love, sometimes they not only love

us back, but here's one of the things.

The people we love don't always do what we want them to do.

In fact, even bigger pain is the people we love sometimes do things that are not good for

them.

And one of the great pains, of of course is when you have come to know

Jesus Christ and you've come to know of God's love for them in the Catholic Church and

these family members, whether that be your parents or your siblings or your children.

They walk away and they say,

I don't want this faith, I don't want this God, I don't want this life.

There's books that have been written, you know, for parents whose kids have left the

faith, there's books that have been written about like what do you do with your

siblings? What if you do if like you're the one who came into faith and

you're trying to share your faith with your parents?

Like I want to just offer four quick things that are just very, very simple and very, very, very straightforward.

They might not solve the problem, but they might help you today. That's the key, right? They might not solve the problem, but they might help you today.

That's the key, right?

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