I am far, far overdue for a post.
Suffice it to say that things have been... quite hit-or-miss.
I've fallen off the bandwagon a good bit. I'm not going to lie here. But I've also made an active, concentrated effort to go to Mass and confession more -- have hit quite a few 12-step meetings -- and just asked someone there to be my sponsor in this process. So I'm confident that I will continue to make more headway, with God's grace. I just suck and screw up a lot.
Will write more later...
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Been keeping you in my prayers. Been meaning to write, but I owe many anxious students some exams and thesis chapters. Keep with it. Somewhere in the writings of Josemaria Escriva, he recounts a penitent who became frustrated about his lack of progress. Again and again, he complained, he was in the confessional for the same fall and was not going forward in his spiritual life, but was stuck in the same place. Escriva observed how valiant the effort was, and encouraged the man not to slacken his resolve, because, he said, think of how far BACK you would have slid these past few weeks if you hadn't been trying so hard to move forward. Bad habits are like momentum in the opposite direction. So times a lot of effort is necessary just to slow them down, before we can achieve a complete redirection of course.
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