THE WAY #17
"Don't succumb to that disease of character whose symptoms are inconstancy in everything, thoughtlessness in action and speech scatter-brained ideas: superficiality, in short.
Mark this well: unless you react in time — not tomorrow: now! — that superficiality which each day leads you to form those empty plans (plans 'so full of emptiness') will make of your life a dead and useless puppet."
It seems as if St. Josemaria has dealt with people like me. He understood a hormonal time-bomb. The ups and downs of life, the cycles in the church calendar, confession and Mass can all work together to help us begin again. Lent begins soon. It's time to dig down and struggle to improve, to love God better.
Mark this well: unless you react in time — not tomorrow: now! — that superficiality which each day leads you to form those empty plans (plans 'so full of emptiness') will make of your life a dead and useless puppet."
It seems as if St. Josemaria has dealt with people like me. He understood a hormonal time-bomb. The ups and downs of life, the cycles in the church calendar, confession and Mass can all work together to help us begin again. Lent begins soon. It's time to dig down and struggle to improve, to love God better.
posted by Leigh the Mom | 10:20 AM
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