tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656667.post8363751971081691783..comments2024-01-07T04:57:21.347-07:00Comments on Pithless Thoughts: Book is PublishedSteve Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04319784922747041297noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656667.post-82187667892497057872014-08-22T11:07:40.379-07:002014-08-22T11:07:40.379-07:00Any plans to release on Kindle?Any plans to release on Kindle?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656667.post-50229425275768039592014-07-17T05:25:35.592-07:002014-07-17T05:25:35.592-07:00This is good news! Congratulations!This is good news! Congratulations!GretchenJoannahttp://www.gretchenjoanna.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656667.post-3104799238751176612014-07-14T07:23:26.354-07:002014-07-14T07:23:26.354-07:00Early on in my new-found faith I was visiting with...Early on in my new-found faith I was visiting with my spiritual father. I mentioned that I was troubled by the lack of sincerity in my prayer life. You don't want sincere prayer, you fervent prayer he responded. What is fervent prayer I asked. Imagine you are in the cabin of a jet liner flying at 30K feet and all 4 engines fail at once. As the jet is careening towards earth and death seems a certainty, what you will hear in that cabin is fervent prayer. I allowed as how I didn't quite see my circumstances as quite so severe; I wasn't on an out of control airliner. Yes you are he said. As your spiritual father I pray that you will come to see the danger you are in. And I ask you to pray for me that I may see the danger I am in. If God opens our eyes he will also open our hearts. Then we will be able to fervently pray not only for ourselves but for everybody because now we truly care about them. We will be less inclined to judge them because we are in the midst of confronting our own sinful natures. Having come to see how easily we were led astray and how slippery the slope is, we will be more inclined to cutting them some slack. That is the first step in learning to forgive. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04812167682024465771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656667.post-66844606665972585092014-07-13T14:32:42.978-07:002014-07-13T14:32:42.978-07:00William, "comfortably miserable" indeed!...William, "comfortably miserable" indeed! No matter how you cut it, sin is easy compared to the effort it takes to be holy. If we spent the effort we have to expend cleaning up our messes and put that toward virtue... well, big "IF" that usually doesn't occur to us until we're deep into our consequences. Ugh.Steve Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04319784922747041297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656667.post-34685966538177533192014-07-13T07:47:13.570-07:002014-07-13T07:47:13.570-07:00I've come to the conclusion that we don't ...I've come to the conclusion that we don't actually "fall back into sin" as the saying goes. We go get that sin we kicked out yesterday, last week, last year and bring it back. We need what comfort we can get out of it even if it's nothing more than a cheap thrill. Fr. Tom Hopko was right: if you say "no" to a sin you have to find something positive to say "yes" to to take its place. That "something" of course is Christ. <br />Going back to the old sin for the old comfort and consolation it provided (along with the attendant problems)results in what an old psychologist friend of mine used to call "being comfortably miserable". We know it's crappy but we have grown used to what comfort we can get out of it. Believing we should turn to Christ for that consolation is one thing. Committing to that path requires faith. That's really the hard part of Christian living. We believe the grass really is greener on the other side of the fence but we can't see it. We don't like putting all our faith into something we can't see.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04812167682024465771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656667.post-32669654749216212992014-07-07T17:38:50.561-07:002014-07-07T17:38:50.561-07:00congrats Steve... what a satisfying accomplishment...congrats Steve... what a satisfying accomplishment. Just posted it on FB too. DebDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594843598589340808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656667.post-26496094616523256662014-07-06T20:47:51.338-07:002014-07-06T20:47:51.338-07:00Thanks, Steve!Thanks, Steve!The Ironic Catholichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990289461877567408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656667.post-82862856730993582052014-07-05T21:56:22.512-07:002014-07-05T21:56:22.512-07:00Thank you, Susan! I've been out of the blog lo...Thank you, Susan! I've been out of the blog loop for a while... but may your new book also be blessed! https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/theology-body-extended-spiritual/id884186070?mt=11Steve Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14344866820030378030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656667.post-76771056358401585892014-07-05T21:05:28.764-07:002014-07-05T21:05:28.764-07:00Congratulations! Congratulations! Deacon Bill Burnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11484509700642430451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656667.post-88872432921129923552014-07-05T20:21:04.666-07:002014-07-05T20:21:04.666-07:00Posted on facebook!Posted on facebook!The Ironic Catholichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990289461877567408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656667.post-74961950656415282922014-07-02T12:14:30.451-07:002014-07-02T12:14:30.451-07:00Congratulations!!Congratulations!!Matushka Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10522097149212770814noreply@blogger.com