When is more, more than enough? There are various traps in living a spiritual life. The first one identified by Ecclesiastes is to look good but not be good. This is that we seek the good opinion of others as more important than God's opinion of us. We start to work hard and be concerned about many things. This preoccupation can cause us to doubt whether God loved us first or whether we seek to endear ourselves to God by what we do.
In a similar way, we can start to live in a way that dissipates our spirit between our prayer and our actions. We start to separate our prayer as our own private time with God but forget that we are called into communion with others. This is where we seek to become people of faith, hope, and charity in daily life. There is nothing better than praying the Our Father as our pattern of prayer and our pattern of life.
The last thing is to see our success in terms of earthly measures rather than an awareness of how we become rich in the sight of God. The good news is that we seek unity between our prayer, our study of the environment, and our actions. We seek God at the heart of every day. To seek how God seeks our hearts first so that we can act in a way guided by a desire welling up within. To enact who God desires us to be and how we become holy by how we act for the good of all.
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