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I just read a little note from St Vincent De Paul: Be careful to preserve your health. The Devil employs a trick to deceive good souls. he incites them to do more than they are able, in order that they may no longer be able to do anything. It was linked with a reading from Sirach (another Catholic book, but an awesome one), heres the longer version: Sirach 11 10: My son, do not busy yourself with many matters; if you multiply activities you will not go unpunished, and if you pursue you will not overtake, and by fleeing you will not escape. 11: There is a man who works, and toils, and presses on, but is so much the more in want. (other translation says: falls further behind) 12: There is another who is slow and needs help, who lacks strength and abounds in poverty; but the eyes of the Lord look upon him for his good; he lifts him out of his low estate 13: and raises up his head, so that many are amazed at him. 14: Good things and bad, life and death, poverty and wealth, come from the Lord. 17: The gift of the Lord endures for those who are godly, and what he approves will have lasting success. 18: There is a man who is rich through his diligence and self-denial, and this is the reward allotted to him: 19: when he says, I have found rest, and now I shall enjoy my goods! he does not know how much time will pass until he leaves them to others and dies. 20: Stand by your covenant and attend to it, and grow old in your work. 21: Do not wonder at the works of a sinner, but trust in the Lord and keep at your toil; for it is easy in the sight of the Lord to enrich a poor man quickly and suddenly. 22: The blessing of the Lord is the reward of the godly, and quickly God causes his blessing to flourish. 23: Do not say, What do I need, and what prosperity could be mine in the future? 24: Do not say, I have enough, and what calamity could happen to me in the future? 25: In the day of prosperity, adversity is forgotten, and in the day of adversity, prosperity is not remembered. 26: For it is easy in the sight of the Lord to reward a man on the day of death according to his conduct. 27: The misery of an hour makes one forget luxury, and at the close of a mans life his deeds will be revealed.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 01:19:46 +0000

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