Let me start off saying how blessed I am to have married a man with such an awesome library. It is going to take a while to read all of his...er...our books, because I think I want to read about 97% of them.
One book that I have been gobbling up is Thy Will Be Done by St. Francis de Sales. The book consists of letters he wrote as a spiritual director to various people. I love these letters, because they are so timeless. What I mean is, despite the fact they were written 400+ years ago, it doesn't make the spiritual direction given in these letters obsolete. When I read them, I feel as though he could have been writing to me! This book has helped me immensely to work harder at being better in my day to day life.
I had felt a little lost after the frawkus of the wedding and our move had settled down. Here I am, in a new state, far away from everything I've ever known. Someone is bound to feel a little displaced in that situation. I spent a lot of time surfing the web while Sean was working, otherwise wasting a lot of precious time that I could have used for far more fruitful purposes.
By and large, I stumbled across St. Francis de Sales book mentioned above. I couldn't and still can't stop reading it. He urges everyone, in all walks and vocations in life to live devoutly. I think that I have the tendency to go through my day and not talking time to spend time with our Lord. How foolish! Is there really any other way to live our daily life? How much happiness are we forfeiting when we neglect to give our day and the tasks that go with it to the Lord? Is it so lofty a goal to live a truely devout life? I think that daily drugdery is no excuse for letting my prayer life fall to the wayside. It seems kind of silly really. If I am to live a normal life as a housewife, why should I waste the precious time I have been given by becoming "busy" with daily chores of running a household? These are wonderful opportunities to offer every little thing I do up for the glory of God!
Those who are simply good people walk in the way of God; but the devout run, and when they are very devout they fly. - St. Francis de Sales
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Laura --- you started a blog --- awesome!! I'll try to keep up with mine too. That's good that you like to read, Sean has a library to rival many Universities.
I loved that book too. I think I've mentioned that before. :)
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