Monday, March 6, 2023
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
You must be holy in the way God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wills that you sanctify the world and your everyday life.
— St. Vincent Pallotti
When we get interested in spirituality, few of us have any intention of getting carried away with it. We don’t consider ourselves holy. We want simply to make use of the power we have learned is available to us for the asking.
But once embarked on this spiritual journey, we find that something is required of us. The love, the peace, and the joy that come to us – we have to pass on. This, however, does not mean we have to completely change our way of living. In fact, those of us new to living a spiritual life are advised to make no major moves at all. Maybe sometime in the future we will be called upon to turn in a different direction, but for now it is enough that we “brighten the corner where we are.” If we submit ourselves to God’s guidance in our everyday life and see where it takes us, we will be doing all we need to.
I can live spiritually in the simple acts of daily living.
Hazelden Foundation
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