In an effort to get on a regular schedule, I've decided to make Wednesday Pajama Day. Hey, you have to start somewhere. And if we don't wear our jammies while we do school, all those jokes about homeschoolers will be for naught.
And this is for real, from my bedtime reading, Friends of God, by Josemaria Escriva (for the entire homily, go here):
"If we do not wish to waste our time in useless activities, or in making excuses about the difficulties in our environment — for there have always been difficulties ever since Christianity began — we must remember that Christ has decreed that success in attracting our fellow men will depend, as a rule, on how much interior life we ourselves have. Christ has stipulated that our apostolic endeavours will only be effective if we are saints; rather (let me put it more correctly) if we strive to be faithful, for while we are on this earth we shall never actually be saints. It may seem hard to believe, but both God and our fellow men require from us an unswerving faithfulness that is true to its name and is consequent down to the last detail, with no half measures or compromises, a faithfulness to the fullness of the Christian vocation which we lovingly accept and caringly practise."
---Josemaria Esriva
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Yep, that's so Escriva, and so true. You can't give what you don't have. It's so important to build up interior life and thus, it overflows outwardly in action, action, action. You live it.
ReplyDeleteAmen sister :-)
The sun is shining here in my part of Ohio....hope it's shining for you too!
Enjoy the pajama party! :-)
Blessings,
Denise