Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Let me show you a good way to ask for happiness, even in this world.   It is a way that will oblige God to listen to you.   Say to Him earnestly: either give me so much money that my heart will be satisfied, or inspire me with such contempt for it that I no longer want it.   Either free me from poverty, or make it so pleasant for me that I would not exchange it for all the wealth in the world.   Either take away my suffering, or – which would be to Your greater glory – change it into delight for me, and instead of causing me affliction, let it become a source of joy.   You can take away the burden of my cross, or You can leave it with me without my feeling its weight.   You can extinguish the fire that burns me, or You can let it burn in such a way that it refreshes me as it did the three youths in the fiery furnace.   I ask for either one thing or the other.   What does it matter in what way I am happ...

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) To work is to pray.  The well-regulated life does not defer prayer until work has been accomplished; it turns work itself into a prayer.  We accomplish this when we turn to God at the beginning and completion of each task and mentally offer it up for love of Him.  Then…the task is sanctified.  No amount of piety in leisure hours can compensate for slipshod labor on the job.  Any honest task, well done, can be turned into a prayer.    Ven. Fulton J. Sheen