Sloth

The Lord says, The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied... ...Today's post is going to allow you a window into my thoughts, my realizations, my struggles, and my heart. In the past few weeks my sponge of faith has felt dry. With this I have been meditating on the sin of sloth, better understood as spiritual laziness. ..
When we allow the business of our life to take over our time with Christ or becomming lax in our spiritual life, this is sloth. I know there are different degrees of this sin.
After the ezamination of my heart I've recently made the realization that I have slipped into spiritual laziness. Though my slipping has been more of a dip and mostly unintentional, sloth is sloth. ..
.I have continued going about my day with prayer, teaching my children right from wrong and even going to Mass on Sundays. So you may ask why do you see sloth in these days.
What I know is that I have been distracted not fully present in my prayers, my teachings or even my time with Christ in the Mass.
In my exzamination I have spent time thinking over the balance of our lives.

 I go to Mass, I pray, I'm a wife, mother, daughter, friend etc. I have a to-do list filled with steps  making our weeks go round. I'm a teacher, a photographer, and an author of Blessed Adventures. 
   Looking at my list I can't help but wonder, how many weeks went past that I thought I was content with this list? Content with the amount of true time I was giving to my spiritual life? How many of us feel this way about our overloaded list, even if its unintentional. We may say "I went to church, so I'm good until next Sunday or I said my prayers so I'm good until we eat a meal or say prayers at bedtime."
 (What ever your repetitive prayer schedule may be)
I know I have.
In doing this, I've hurt myself. I've added stress to my days and experienced missed opportunities of a path God was pointing me down.

..What God wants from me and you in our life is him. Him as our center and the core of our everything. Don't just go to church, go and give all of you to him. Don't just pray, talk to God about each of your thoughts throughout the day. You then will hear him. Good things will come your way.

Deligence is that virtue that counterbalances sloth, it gives us self-discipline to work on our relationship with God and others.

.. I have noticed that I do not hear God during times of sloth. I know he is there talking to me, leading me in directions he has planned. When he is not the core of my thoughts and my life, how can I hear him.
I cant, he's not as loud or as clear as he is today.

..Today I am dripping wet with the Lord, my sponge is no longer dry. It is full. Full.
I feel his energy, peace, love, and joy.
What a difference taking a good look at your routine can do for you and others as you hear Gods will for your life. If your in a slump think about this post. Examine your life. I know a slump is something hard to climb out of. You may feel too busy or just not carry the ambition to examine your list. That's normal, but you have to take the time. Once you get started you will receive the desire to make God the core of your list. No longer will you have to push yourself. You will be so inspired, surprised, and pleased with the changes that will come. God is so good. He knows what he is talking about. He made you.

Catherine Anne

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