THE WORTHY LIVING COLLECTIVE
so let's be generous with ourselves
FREEDOM
Freedom is the ability to chose the good. We must have the discipline to chose the good in all areas of our life so we are not inclined to chose what is easy or bad for us.
PERSEVERANCE
We want to create a community that helps you build discipline and endurance in difficulties, and encourages you to keep going even when the fight is tough.
FRUITFULNESS
God wants our lives to be effective and fruitful. We want to focus on practices that are not only sustainable but bring the most good into our lives.
TEMPERANCE
Often people move from one extreme to the next, allowing for over-indulgence. We were created for moderation, temperance, and to attain the middle ground.
SUSTAINABILITY
We want to create a life built of practices and habits that can hold up no matter what season of life we may be in. If God calls us to be holy, we must live in manner that is sustainable.
So where do we start?
Because we are fully integrated persons, we can’t grow in one area of our life and neglect all the others. In order to become the woman God has called us to we must move towards growth in every area of our life. We always want to be growing, changing, and transforming more towards the perfection God has called us to “be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect”.
However, the goal is to never do a bunch of “quick fixes” or “crash diets” so we can become perfect over night. These methods often lead us feeling burnt out, in over our head, we end up dropping the ball. The goal is to create effective method and practices that are attainable to keep up over a period of a lifetime. We are aiming for intentional, sustainable, and effective growth towards a virtuous life.
In order to move towards intentional, effective growth here are the main virtues the Worthy Living Collective is intent on keeping at the forefront.
Virtues We Are Striving For
In Matthew 5:48 Jesus says, “Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect”. The greek word that is translated as perfect is teleios which more closely means "brought to full completion; fully developed; fully realized". To be all that we are created to be, to be "our fully realized self" is to share in God's own divine nature - His holiness, and thus be saints. God has called us to perfection. But we can’t get there ourselves, we need His grace and His help in order to be Saints.
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But we aren't called to be idle either, God acts in participation WITH us. St. Joan of Arc would say, "act and God will act" because she knew the more generous she was with Her life, the more she was made holy.
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We have a tremendous responsibility and need to strive towards virtue, discipline, and excellence so that we may manifest the glory of God.To act in participation with God is to do all that is in our capacity to be our best and most virtuous self - and depend on God to do the rest.
St. Augustine would say, "work as if everything depended on you, and pray as if everything depended on God."
Be Perfect As Your Heavenly Father
We want to focus these virtues in several areas of our lives. We believe that they are vital to growing as a woman and becoming our best self. These areas of focus are Beauty, Spiritual Life, Vocation, Intellect, Relationship, and Finance.
