Food For Thought - April

[MajestyJo]

Sunday, April 26, 2015
You are reading from the book Food for Thought

Overcoming Sloth

Another of the seven deadly sins, which we do not talk much about anymore, is sloth. Webster defines it as laziness or indolence. It is our experience that the more we eat, the lazier we become. We procrastinate, we do not feel like undertaking anything difficult, and we avoid movement as much as possible.

Abstinence puts our bodies into high gear. With proper nourishment and without an excess amount of food to digest, we feel alert and alive. We find ourselves requiring less sleep and fewer naps. Lifetime habits of laziness do not change immediately, but if we are willing to become more energetic, our Higher Power will provide the motivation.

Sometimes the thought of a large task looming ahead of us is overwhelming, and we feel that we will never be able to manage it. Here is where the willingness to take one step at a time can make the difference. If we will begin, God will keep us going when the task is part of His plan.

Deliver us from slothfulness.

For me, sloth is such a descriptive word and a very ugly one. I picture up a real slug a bug, and that is what I become when I become slothful. I just want to burrow in and do nothing but stuff my face, go no where, do nothing but be a big lay about. It is more than being a couch potato, it is being a bug that feeds off of the potato. I do love my potatoes.