One of the oldest tricks of the Deceiver is disguising his temptations
so that we do not realize what they are. Very recently I had a
revelation about the vice of acedia or sloth in my life. I have
been dealing with feelings of resentment, discontent with my life, and a
desire to be doing something other than what I am doing for much of my
life. It has never been a continuous feeling, but one I would have when I
was alone trying to get work done and once I became a mother a feeling I
would have when I was home with my children going about my daily tasks.
In fact my feelings of discontentment would increase often when I would
be doing the Sisyphean tasks that come with motherhood, ones that
demand attention day after day and week after week, and rarely when I
would sit and stare at social media for too many minutes of my day. It
was a feeling and a temptation that wanted me to be dissatisfied with and seek to escape from the good things in my life.
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