A Note to the Reader
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s Catholics, we are always on the lookout for God’s presence and purpose in our life. Seeing life through the lens of faith nourishes us and inspires us to live up to our full potential and to pursue a life of holiness. Life, after all, is a gift. At least, that’s how God sees it. But do you see it this way? In this book, I hope not only to help you see your life as a gift from God but also to help you see it, in some measure, as God sees it. That might sound overpromising. How can we possibly see as God sees? But the saints and everyday saints-in-the making demonstrate that this is, in fact, possible. Through the Church, Scripture, prayer, the sacraments, and any number of ways, God reveals the meaning of life and how he wants us to live this gift. The people I discuss in the following pages discovered for themselves the truth of how God sees things. That insight and knowledge transformed them. They saw what God wanted for them—his will for them—and conformed themselves to that, no matter the cost. They had what I like to think of as a God’s-eye view of things.
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