Actually today until Friday, my students have been going for school Youth Camp and therefore I don't have any teaching activities. And this is the first day of being hiatus from school and I feel a little bit unusual. And here I have to keep looking for ideas what to do in this new environment where almost all of the residents (students and staffs are going to Youth Camp as well) are going out. So in the dorm are just me and my friends who also have to make up idea so we don't waste time.Well, even right now, I am thinking and reflecting on this. But I am reminded by the Lord's commandment not to worry about anything, but keep watchful and vigilant and trust Him and His Wisdom. And I plea for God's mercy to protect me from the burning passion in the flesh, especially because it's too easy in this kind of time for me to be attempted of being lethargic and idle. Lord have mercy!
And by the way, I am glad for this opportunity actually, because then I will have time to read, learn and revise and edit the reflective journals, having sports (I really hope!) and the most important thing: to pray :) (and I am reminded by Fr. Stephen's post: “You should never read more hours in a day than you pray") and be in the presence of The Lord Almighty. Glory to You, O God!
Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner!
"You should never read more hours in a day than you pray".
ReplyDeleteOf course, Fr Stephen is correct in the sense that we mustn't let our relationship to Christ become imaginary or a function of the intellect only.
Because prayer itself is a "work" and also because through our prayer God teaches us (prayer, and the psalms especially, are like a "revolving door" with God), it is of course best to pray more than we read.
But the saying "Don't read more than you pray," cannot be followed as a rule, of course. It is just meant to emphasize to us how important it is not to become "hearers rather than doers" as the apostle James warns us (James 1:22).
Thanks for this, Romanos :).
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