Author Topic: Mental/Physical fatigue (Read 3818 times)

Matthew · « **Reply #5 on:** January 29, 2007, 08:58:49 PM »

Fatigue is only detrimental to your spiritual life if you cause it yourself by excessive fasting, work, etc. If you cause it yourself, you are at fault for your neglect of family duties, spiritual duties, etc. That's why we're supposed to have spiritual directors -- so they can slap us when we suggest fasting on bread & water for a week.

Seriously though, they will tell us that it's probably pride, the devil, etc. tempting us to overdo it.

Time (and energy) must be set aside for prayer -- just like collection money should be set aside first, before you start paying bills. Otherwise the money has a tendency to be gone before you can put something in the collection. Same for personal energy to say prayers.

If you find you're "zonked" by 9 or 10 PM, say the Rosary earlier.

I've experienced this personally, so I've learned how to deal with it. You get to know how much energy you have in a day, and you can plan accordingly.

Matthew

Kephapaulos · « **Reply #6 on:** January 29, 2007, 10:43:58 PM »

I suppose there needs to be some fine tuning in accord with the spiritual and the temporal of our daily lives on this earth. I remember Matthew telling me not too long after I had met him about not just having a balance between extremes but also going over and above that. So I think now of this sort of analogy, if it is alright to use: you have the two extremes of radidity and timidity and in between there is tepidity, but that is still not so great either. What would be best then is placidity in that case.

Trinity · « **Reply #7 on:** January 30, 2007, 10:20:35 AM »

To me placidity is peacefulness, carrying on day to day, neither up nor down. But Jesus has zeal for the House of the Lord, and zeal doesn't speak to me of placidity.

Kephapaulos · « **Reply #8 on:** January 31, 2007, 05:08:27 PM »

Quote from: Trinity

To me placidity is peacefulness, carrying on day to day, neither up nor down. But Jesus has zeal for the House of the Lord, and zeal doesn't speak to me of placidity.

Well, wouldn't you have the heavenly peace of Christ just as well as having His zeal too? I cannot have genuine zeal unless it has the foundation of that peace in the soul which only God Himself can give. Hence, I would need a placidity that comes from our Lord.