LAZY

When you read the biographies of the great saints down thru the centuries, you'll find one common thread for sure.  They weren't lazy.

It's one thing I've never been accused of - and we have to say that, don't we?  We have to remind everybody that we're not lazy, just to make sure they (and we) know it.  It's one of those things, above all, that we don't want to be labelled as.

'We can be hard at work and still be lazy...'

There are a lot of ways to be lazy, though.  We can be work lazy (I'm not though).  But we can also be mind-and-soul lazy.  Funny how, if we had to pick one, we would probably rather be categorized as 'mind' lazy rather than 'work' lazy (I'm neither one though, just so you know).

But sometimes we neglect the work of feeding our minds and hearts.  We stop reading - we stop dreaming - we stop thinking - we stop visioning - we stop resting - we mind coast.  And in the end, the mind starvation reaches our souls.

It is ironic that we can be hard at work and still be lazy - in the same way that we can be 'body still' before God and yet active.

We have to continue having conversations that feed our spirits.  We have to take care of our hearts by meditating on the things of God.  We have to read things that challenge and encourage our minds.  Because there is way more than one way to be lazy.

And be blessed.