Keeping faith simple.

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Oh, I don't mean I don't ponder the greater depths of life, my memory or what of it remains or the shreds and pieces of it.  I do not meant that I don't explore the vastness of the God I face, or what He wants, or who Jesus is and what being Christ meant, and it isn't as if I don't try to fully figure out the Holy Spirit.  Sure, I fail, but I look, prod, read, discuss, and explore to my heart's content and my mind's capacity.  Others might quip that I go far beyond the latter.  Never you mind, I do what I may.

What I mean is, in practical life living, I try to do the right things, do them simply often, but just do them.  Since getting to Church is sometimes impossible I pray, ponder, profess.  Over every meal I pray.  At night, or even at odd times in the day, sometimes for no reason, sometimes for the ill or beset I will pray.  But I keep my practical faith simple.  I have found that trying to create a grand scheme of religious devotion becomes a burden I cannot fulfill.  Even when I have been able to fulfill it, the thing becomes the religion, taking away the correct focus.  That's just for me.  I can lose myself in the practice while forgetting the reasons.  Oh, others can and do find the balance it takes to be fully imbued with the graces of the offices of the priesthood, for example.  There are many who lead a wholly holy life, some better than others still.  But for me, in this regard, I must remain a humble sheep of the Church.  As such, after testing Her out as deeply, harshly, and truly as I am able which ain't too bad, I leave much of the remaining thinking to the Church.  Mostly, I say mostly boy, abiding what She has to say on subjects, even or especially, when I disagree.  Yep.  If you only agreed, or did only what you agreed with, you wouldn't be worshiping God, you would be worshiping yourself, and that... doesn't ever work all that well.  I, personally, make a terrible godling.  If you think God sucks, you should write your own rules and compare.  While I never did that, formally, I certainly know what my rules lead to, and know that is fail.  Hmm, I think you would end up re-writing the Koran, if you were as clever as the devil anyway. 

Well, on to other things.