Thank you all very much. More of a lurker here these days due to my faith being on the wain. I need some sort of spark to reignite the spirit in me. That sounds selfish I know but it is what it is Im afraid. Regards to you all.
Ah, grimisocks, what wains can wax once more. Even after my night-to-day conversion experience back in the '70s, I've wained a number of times and have fallen into mortal sin! And some of those occasions extended into a period of lethargy because I was tempted to give up on myself or God. Some of those times I was unwilling to take up a particular cross in my life and follow after the Lord. I ended up saying to God, "Abba, Father, let this cup pass me by or else...". Jesus is so patient and merciful. Remember, He unfailingly promises in the first Scripture verse I ever memorized, "I have loved you with an everlasting love and am constant in my affection for you..." Such steadfast Love means He has never cast you aside. He waits only for you to turn and gaze upon His loving countenance in the Sacrament of Penance. He will restore you to the max and overcome your floundering. And your good example will touch the hearts of others. And the devil which now is smug in the midst of your lethargy will flee before the Love of God in your cleansed soul. May he return to the depths of hell and stay there! You are in my prayers and in my fast tomorrow!
2 Cor 3:6 ...but when a man turns to the Lord the veil is removed. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
