Weariness

As has been mentioned previously, often hermits have physical ailments which lend well to the eremitic life. The hermit is rather tired these days with a cold adding to the weariness.

The events of the last week, the upheaval with the neighbors, are in spiritual review. The readings from this week's Masses help. Jesus' advice in taking one's peace if it is not accepted, in taking it and going on, helps the hermit know to take the peace offered but to offer it in prayer instead. The hermit is offering prayer but also sacrifice for the neighbors' souls. Today the hermit will push the physical body a bit to do more outdoor painting and perhaps plant bulbs for spring.

Weariness is only of the body, for a hermit must accept abjection but keep going, simply keep going, as best the body is able.

The hermit is doing more writing in continuing some lessons from Canon Beaudenon's book Formation to Humility. These writings are posted on a different blog site.

The hermit has also written a letter to the Bishop, thanking him for his response to the hermit's vocation request, and also thanking him that the Diocese job was not given to the hermit. The hermit is accepting very much God's will, with only occasional bouts of trying to instill the hermit's ideas of what God should be doing with the hermit's life!

Formation to humility will be helpful to the hermit.... It's all about God's will, not the hermit's!
When the hermit is weary and sleepless during the night, and day, prayer for souls and prayer for hermit humility absorb God's time given the hermit in this life, on this earth. While the hermit mentioned in the letter to the Bishop that there are the temporal world, Catholic world, and supernatural world, the hermit's work deals mostly with the supernatural world.