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Dec
02

Day 2 What’s the Plan? God’s Spiritual Plan!

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The first week in Advent is coming to a close… do you have your spiritual plan?

Have you put it into action with God’s Grace?

It is a good idea to have a daily spiritual plan, and time carved out for God during this Holy Season which constantly tempts us to focus on Christmas day materialism… making a mockery of the most Holy moment the world has ever known!

I mean spend time meditating on that most holy hour, moment when the savior of the world left a throne and a glorious kingdom… a really good time…

For what?

For a bunch of arrogant, sinful creatures who ended up spitting on Him, trashing His name, and killing Him…

Crazy?  Crazy LOVE!

We would do well to have time thought out how we could spend time with Him… to prepare for Him…

So don’t be stressed in the second day of the 30 days —

If you haven’t started a plan… start today!

My experience is that people get all worked up about following a plan and then they realize how far their lives are from being disiplined enough to hold to the plan and it totally stresses them out!

So keep it simple — and don’t stress — but allow the Holy Spirit to show  you that your life might just have a lot of stuff in it that is not necessary –

Maybe you procrastinate… or waste time on other things and there is no room to add anything else…

Maybe it’s time to shut the TV off or talk on the phone less — stop texting and spend 20 minutes in the evening with the Lord…

Maybe you have to get up earlier…

God first, family second and everything after that…

easier said than done some days I know…

Anyway,

Here is my plan… Each day

Morning

Holy Mass

Adoration

Scripture — Book of Romans – one chapter a day -

One # of St. Faustina’s Diary

Rosary — Hoping for all mysteries during advent – at least one

(walking with rosary in cold) doubles as sacrifice :)

3:00 pm Divine Mercy Chaplet

Evening

Spiritual Reading – The Life of St. Francis – One Chapter per day

                                      The 30 days with St. Francis Meditations book

Devotion — Blessed by the Hour Prayer…

If you want… share your plan – we can learn and grow from each other… or if you would like assistance with a plan send me an email!

God bless you!

 

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  • http://www.facebook.com/jonmarc.grodi JonMarc Grodi

    Good schtuff – thanks Marie!

  • Patrickmoylan

    My Plan
    AMMy usual morning prayersLiturgy of the Hours (shorter version) morning prayerOne chapter of Book of RomansPMRosary Meditate on mysteriesLiturgy of the Hours, evening prayerI too agree with JonMarc (son of Marcus???), this is good stuff.

  • Marie

    God bless you Patrick — good to see you here!  Great Plan!

  • Marie

    Hey thanks for reminding me — I forgot to list the Liturgy of the Hours!!  Yikes! :)

  • Itsker1956

    getting into iit. Patrick, shorter version of Liturgy of hours? Talk to me.

  • Kim

    Good Morning Marie,
    I came on here this morning exactly for this purpose; searching for a way to bring God back into my heart first thing in the morning. Just briefly I want to share, I am currently in the process of a hard painful divorce; after 34 yrs of marriage. Had my 1st hearing just recently and feeling very angry, heartbroken, a mixture of emotions. Why? Because I am a survivor of cancer and it was my illness that ended my marriage; a marriage that was full of spiritual battles living with an emotional and somewhat physcial abuser. My lawyer tells me it’s too late to bring up the abuse after just one hearing, and the judge has already found compassion towards my husband not knowing the true story behind the reasons I filed for divorce. I’m confused and angry about it all. I know I need to bring my heart and focus back to Jesus during this precious celebration of His birth and life. I am struggling trying to stay focused; and the moment I got on the internet this morning I knew my first priority was to find some spiritual reading to bring my heart back to Jesus. Here it is just six days before Christmas and I am struggling to keep the spirit of Christmas in my heart because of my own battles here on earth. Thank you for creating this site and helping us to stay focused. I think as a Christian, we all know we need to prioritize our days’ agenda and what is most important the moment we open our eyes but I think your right in the thoughts of how easy it is to get to wrapped up in earthly things. Our sufferings, our life here on earth is so short and I like to think of it as a time period  (if you can vision it) as a knock at heaven’s door and we’re just waiting to be welcomed in. As a visitor asking to be welcomed in; we should bare gifts of love (a true spirit of love, charity, kindness, faithfulness) to show we want to become a part of God’s family and live in eternal happiness. Praying everyday to live God’s plan and be all we can be for God is a great way to start the day. For those of us who care for younger children, we may not be able to plan out such an agenda that is set in stone, but at least offer up what we can at the beginning of each day is a good start. Even 15 minutes of time alone with God in personal conversation is still an offering of love. I feel God is pleased with whatever time I can offer to Him. It’s just we need to figure out a way to meditate on God instead of worries of what our worldly plans are for the day or the expectations of others. This is the one thing I realized is in my control but first, I need to bring Jesus back into my heart and what a better time than meditating on His birth and life on earth. Taking a walk with Jesus in the morning is always a guarantee to bring blessings in our day! God Bless!