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Don't Play with Fire!

Don't Play with Fire!

Fire is good but dangerous. Depending on what you are made of, the fire will either consume you or purify you. So, do you know what you're made of?

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Fr. Barnabas Powell
Mar 14, 2025
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When I was younger, I was a firebug. Fire fascinated me until I burned myself playing with fire one day. It’s incredible how instructional pain can be if you let it!

Another time, my best friend, Mark Spinicelli, and I were taken home by the Sheriff’s department when we were camping in the woods and started a fire in a fire pit during a fire ban! The deputies weren’t playing around!

But why do we keep insisting on learning life’s lessons the hard way?

Why do we consistently ignore wisdom for the prideful notion that “the rules don’t apply to me?”

I’ll tell you why, or at least why I keep struggling with this: I’m forgetful and allow life to inebriate me into believing I’m the exception. Oh dear, have I said too much?

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