Priorities

 Back when I was in college a Jesuit friend of mine was taking his final test to become a cannon lawyer.  It had consumed 3 years of his life through law school.  I was struck by something he said, " You know, if I worked half as hard at being a priest as I have at becoming a lawyer I would be a saint."  Now he was a selling himself short a bit.  He was a holy man and a great guy.  We have talked about if you are doing God's will then your life is prayer.  But I have often thought about that comment and where I place effort in my life.  So my quote is from St Ignatius Loyola today.  It is a little long winded but he is writing to some of his followers.

Do not ever permit the children of this world to show greater care and solicitude for the things of time than you show for things of eternity.  It should bring a blush to your check to see them run to death more unhesitatingly than you to life. 

Now I don't think most of us "run to death" but where are our priorities? It is clearly a balancing act but if we constantly pray to do God's will such as my Jesuit friend did, that will help us find our way.

 

Pax

 

Joe