With Teri out of town and the parish planning meeting for special musical events moved to earlier in the day, I was free to attend the family praise and worship meeting in the St. Julie Center last night. Several of the young folks had attended the Encounter conference for young adults in St. Louis, and reported on the things that struck them.
They shared some really practical things related to overcoming habitual sin. They also shared a very flexible prayer paradigm that I am already finding useful for restoring my daily prayer time. Mine had definitely taken the downward turn I anticipated when I completed the Spiritual Exercises, which had also left me separated from my only Strength in the face of temptation. I'm concerned about how close I was to making a foolish decision. I don't think it would have led me into true catastrophe - which would have still been of a very different nature from where I was two decades ago - but it would have been another baby step closer. Last night and this morning had very different thought, emotion and prayer dynamics as a result of attending this meeting.
I faced a pretty clear decision point last night about whether to go, at which time it was clear that I was deciding what was more important to me. I can see that God has blessed me with a desire to live according to His vision for my life and continues to honor every choice I make to act according to that desire.
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