Men's Rosary

In order to be fruitful in our faith we must pay attention to God. We must be always open to the movements of the Spirit and respond. This really is the reason for prayer. Time in prayer, Adoration, reading of Holy Scripture and other pious reading are all things that help us mature in our spuritual life and grow closer to God.

So the question I submit is, “what has our attention?”. Too often I find that “stuff” gets in the way of God. The more things we have the more time is spent tending to them. The more technologically advanced we become the more spiritually challenged we are.

We may say that we would love to pray more, read more, spend time at church in Adorarion more, but we are just too busy. Too busy doing what? We spend time improving things that are good enough but we have to constantly feed our desire for more and better. Why not live more simply and be thankful for what we have. We spend hours in a day on line looking at news and other things or have our face buried in our phones doing the same thing. Why not unplug?

The truth is, we have time to give to God and our spiritual health every day. We choose not to! What a price we will pay for that! We need to pay attention to what has our attention. We must guard ourselves against spiritual sloth so as to become the men God created us to be.

We are not perfect, and to our saving grace, God is forgiving and merciful. Let us take a moment to revisit where we give our attention and tip the scales more to God and our spiritual growth.

“Pay attention to what I tell you. Whoever you may be, always have God before your eyes. Whatever you do, do it according to the testimony of the Holy Scriptures.” (St. Anthony)