Welcome! I hope you’re enjoying the videos. If you’re looking for high-gloss production values, you’ve probably figured out by now that this isn’t the place.  But as I go through them (and I’ve been viewing one each week, without peeking ahead) I’m finding that there’s a lot of content to chew on. This week is no different. Buckle your seat belts, boys and girls, we’re going to learn about the undoing of sloth…and Solzhenitsyn!

Russian authors aside, a couple ideas jumped out at me.

One…that sloth shouldn’t be confused with laziness. It’s being way too busy with things that don’t really matter to us.

The other…Sloth is not so much something to be fought against, as something to be replaced by the acceptance of God’s love.

If we accept God’s love, we are drawn to become the people He created us to be. We won’t have room in our lives for sloth.

And how do we accept God’s love? To circle back to a previous post, it starts with prayer. You can’t accept God’s love if you don’t know Him. You can’t know Him if you don’t spend time talking with Him…and even more important, listening for His word, and His love.

Pentecost is coming soon. A good time to ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to put God’s love at the center of your life.