October 16, 2024 I certainly didn’t give it enough of my attention. A former colleague and fellow parishioner of my church, St. Mary’s in Brushton, had just sent me a text agreeing to cover a time I was scheduled to serve as lector. Walking, talking and texting at the same time, I thanked him and wrote, “Let me know when I should cover you.” Except that’s not what I actually wrote. In my distraction, I didn’t notice that I had hit the “T” instead of the “R” when I wrote that sentence. I didn’t notice it until the recipient of the text responded with a bunch of laugh emojis and pointed out the error. Yes, I asked a former colleague and fellow parishioner to “let me know when I should covet” him. I do stuff like that all the time. I don’t give tasks the attention they deserve, and I end up making silly mistakes. Luckily, it was just a funny mistake this time. Other times, the consequences have been much tougher than being temporarily mortified before finding the situation hysterical. I didn’t give the text message the attention it deserved. I thought of that situation as I recently sat with the fact that God was telling me I’m not giving my spiritual life the attention it deserves. Over the past handful of months, I’ve put a whole lot of my attention and energy into my physical and mental health and significantly less attention and energy into my spiritual health and my relationship with the Lord. Don’t get me wrong, those other aspects of my health are super important, but they’re not more important than Jesus. And I see that I struggle more, I lean into despair more and I sin more when I’m not focusing on cultivating my relationship with the Lord. I need to give Jesus more attention.
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