I have been continuing to listen and reading along with the book, “The Imitation of Christ.” It is deep and heavy for me, but truthful and thought provoking. I’m glad each session is only a few minutes in length. Today was the chapter entitled, “Admitting our weakness and the miseries of this life.” While it can seem that it is a negative connotation, to me the point is to get out of myself and put my attention on God. After all, He is the source of all goodness. A sentence that struck me was, “Often what depresses and troubles me is a small thing.” While it is difficult to care for my mom as she declines, we are so blessed by God to have all of our needs met. The big things are taken care of. Yet, I find myself getting upset over little things. That brings me to another part speaking of temptation that read, “And when I think I am fairly safe, I suddenly find myself all but defeated by a light breeze.” Later it talked about how annoying it is to live in constant conflict. I spent some time thinking about this chapter today. It does my soul good to realize my frailty as it helps me depend more on God and less on my random thoughts or emotions that may pop up.

I Found God today realizing my need to depend on Him.