Dieting is perhaps the change most of us try to make through out our life. Aristotle has this funny observation in the Ethics that Temperance is the easiest virtue to grow in because we have an opportunity to practice it three times a day! I have found for me that small changes, tracked and rewarded over time is the only way I can sustain change. Rather than switching to a whole new diet, I need to cut out one food at a time, or adopt a new recipe repeated several times before it becomes permanent. Even cutting out alcohol was done in increments, from every day, to every other day, to just the weekend.
What works for you? How have you effected change in your life?
When the practice of the faith become as so many chains, weighing us down rather than lifting us up, it can be useful to recall the bare minimum to be a practicing Catholic.
If we have expressed our anxiety to God and asked Him to weave it into His provident design, and yet still worry, do we sin for lack of trust in Him?
