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The Immediate Reward for Trustful Surrender, by Conor Gallagher – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Immediate Reward for Trustful Surrender, by Conor Gallagher

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By Conor Gallagher, Catholic Exchange, January 14, 2025

Conor Gallagher is the CEO of multiple businesses including Well-Ordered Family, Good Will Publishers, and TAN Books. He is the executive director of the Benedict Leadership Institute at Belmont Abbey College, where he serves on the Board of Trustees ….

Editor’s Note: Deepen your trustful surrender to Our Lord by praying Fr. Don Dolindo’s Surrender Novena.

This article is adapted from a chapter in Conor Gallagher’s You Have Only One Problem: Experience the Instant Reward of Trustful Surrender, available from TAN Books.

 

Avatar photoHave you ever done an act purely out of love for God? If you are like most of us, you always have some ulterior motive when you perform spiritual and corporal works of mercy. When you pray for the dead, are you not hoping that someday they will pray for you when they reach heaven? When you feed the homeless, are you not hoping that God will remember you when you come into His kingdom?

You do not deserve much blame for this. It was God Himself who infused you with self-preservation. Still, you may consider purifying your motives by increasing your selflessness and decreasing your selfish impulses.

Because God is a loving Father, He offers us not only the eternal reward of Himself but also an earthly reward for surrendering ourselves to Him. And He wants you to experience this immediate reward. He even wants you to seek this immediate reward. …