Changes are occurring, and priorities are shifting in my mind gradually, with such subtlety that I hardly sense the process...yet I find that I'm becoming more confident and less caught up in endless trivial details.
With so much happening in the world, I don't understand why people are so distracted with trivialities like sports. Most people seem to be spiritually asleep. Sometimes I am weary of life....God, please refresh my soul.
Nature, God's creation, never toils or strives anxiously. The times and seasons change gradually, in a way that is gentle and subtle. Fasting and other forms of asceticism aren't found in nature.
Overdone asceticism is a work of the flesh, a mistake I have made, and harmed my health as a result. The more genuine spiritual discipline is restraint, or abstinence. This is the way Jesus followed, and is therefore the way of life.
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