Discipline

Wow... I have thought of extreme discipline like pushing myself hard in the training. But not like this military discipline.

Perhaps it is the result of spending a long time in the adoration room the day before. I think I learnt a lesson today. It is very old one. I have encountered it many times. Yet I never learnt how to deal it seriously. It is laziness. Yes, I have learnt how to discipline myself. But I sometimes find myself in the path of sloth. I have met many lazy people too. But it is bizarre and mystifying as I found myself more diligent outside than at my home. Suddenly, I remembered that I worked hard in serving others like church commitments. I recognise this gift of mine in serving when I took the spiritual gift test the other times. Perhaps the problems lie in myself and alluring entertainment in my laptop. On my perspective, the less I pray, the more I find myself tempted to play, play, play. Some people are lucky as they have works to occupy their attention while I face the boredom everyday. Well, I guess that I have to discipline myself more in the prayer. It shall be my tactic to fight off the laziness! I hope it works! It is time for me to go out and draw.

"The soul of the lazy person has strong desires but gets nothing, but the soul of the one who does his best gets more than needs." (Proverbs 13:4)

"This is what I have seen to be good and right: to eat and to drink and be happy in all the work one does under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him. For this is his pay. As for every man to whom God has given riches and many good things, He has also given him the power to eat from them, receive his pay and be happy in his work. This is the gift of God." (Ecclesiastes 5:18-19)

"Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use is it to lean upon that which cannot give support?" - St Gerard Majella