{"id":67272,"date":"2024-04-21T00:20:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T04:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=67272"},"modified":"2024-05-08T23:07:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T03:07:50","slug":"thoughts-on-frailty-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/thoughts-on-frailty-of-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts On Frailty Of Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><em>Thoughts on the Frailty of Man<\/em><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">+<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The saints of God and all devout friends of\u00a0 Christ did not look\u00a0to what pleases the body or to the things that are popular from time to time.\u00a0 Their whole hope and aim centered on the everlasting good.\u00a0Their whole desire pointed upward to the lasting and invisible realm,\u00a0lest the love of what is visible drag them down to lower things.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">+<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Do not lose heart, then, my brother, in pursuing the spiritual\u00a0life. There is yet time, and the hour is not past.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">+<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Why delay the\u00a0purpose? Arise! Begin at once and say: \u201cNow is the time to act; now is the time to fight; now is the proper time to amend.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">+<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><em>Thomas A Kempis:<\/em>\u00a0Imitation of Christ<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">+<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><em>[resources: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookstore.spiritdaily.com\/search?q=imitation\">The Imitation of Christ<\/a><\/span>]<\/em><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">+<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">[Footnote: When we focus on the eternal and how God watches over us while we are on the journey we see how things have fallen into place even when at the time it seemed the opposite: a ragged, chaotic, or discouraging course. Lo: God&#8217;s vision goes far beyond all the curves on every road above each bump. He knows the rocks, pebbles, and every single grain of sand: the molecules, the atoms that compose them. When all confidence is with His sustenance, there is resignation to His Will which brings a tranquil grateful spirit and cleanses shadows.]<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><em>[resources: <a href=\"https:\/\/spiritdailyblog.com\/news\/announcing-a-retreat-in-st-augustine\">Michael Brown retreat]<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"uncategorized\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1713658845\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Thoughts On Frailty Of Man\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts on the Frailty of Man + The saints of God and all devout friends of\u00a0 Christ did not look\u00a0to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}