The Theology of your arm falling asleep

(photo from here)

This thought crossed my mind the other night. I thought it was an interesting analogy so I thought I'd share it. Living without God and prayer is kind of like when your arm falls asleep from sleeping on it. There's still blood that is being forced through, but it's much more difficult and you lose feeling and functionality.
When we live in the light of Jesus, and especially according to the moral law of the church, it's kind of like untying your knots and letting the blood run faster and with more volume. It reminds me of Blessed John Paul II's famous saying, "Open wide the door to Christ". The wider we open it the greater the gifts he can give us, the greater the blessings will flow. So don't view the Church's moral law as a burden, view it as liberating. For Jesus says that his yoke is easy and his burden light. Sin is what enslaves us, not His yoke. He didn't come to destroy the Law but to fulfil it!

So go to Daily Mass, say the Rosary every day, read the Catechism and papal encyclicals, and pray unceasingly. Pray before every meal, don't be afraid of making the sign of the cross in public, and spread the gospel by living it. For there are two ways to spread the Good News, by word, and by work. The irony is that works can speak so much louder than words!

So do not be angry with your brother, forgive your enemies, honor your parents, stop blaspheming, stop pirating music and software, stop using pornography, and listen to the rest of Catholic moral teaching. These are clear teachings from our church and if we follow them God will truly bless us. Some may be difficult at first - so ask for God to help you, He would want nothing more than to see you stop sinning. Think of St Paul and how he got his knots untied. He was a great persecutor, i.e. murderer, of Christians. God helped him untie his knots and he went ahead and wrote more of the New Teatament than any other writer. His words are read at almost every Mass. 

"The Glory of God is a human being fully alive" - St Ireneaus of Lyons

God Bless!

p.s. - In other news I'm in the midst of a great novena to St. Monica, mother of St. Augustine and you can find the novena here. I particularly like this sentence, "For years Monica prayed, fasted and cried silently for Augustine". Her feast is this Monday, August 27th.