We learn through work that patience matters. That, eventually, given great effort day after day, year after year, we’ll see results. Through our experience in work, we can deduce that that progress in the spiritual life is slow, but that it will pay off. We learn that we don’t necessarily have to see the big picture in order to know it’s there.
discipline
Despite our best intentions, by their very force the material obligations of the Christmas season can push the more spiritual Advent activities aside.
Have you given anything up this Lent? It seems everywhere I turn this year, I have found recommendations about […]