7 Deadly SIns...Sloth

I hope that everyone had a great Christmas and New Year's.  In coming off of the holiday season I'm a little lazy which is ironic since the next deadly sin on tap is sloth.  Sloth is not only an animal, it's a state of being, one of which I'm very familiar.  Both the animal and the state of being are similar in the fact that sloths move extremely slow when they move at all and when we're sloth in our actions it's based on our lack of action.  Since the holidays, I have been quite slothlike in my actions...lying on the couch, eating, sleeping, sitting, resting, napping, dozing, checking my eyelids for holes and so on and so forth.  I haven't thoroughly cleaned my house since Christmas decoration takedown 2011, I haven't started the "get in shape" program I kept telling myself about and I certainly have given it a go of going to church like I should.  Sloth is defined as spiritual or emotional apathy, neglecting what God has spoken and being physically and emotionally inactive.  Sadly, I am all these things.

Last year was such a bummer that I was hoping 2011 would bring some zeal and zest back into my life.  Hoping that I'd wake up with a little pep in my step ready to greet the day.  Hoping I'd be looking forward to going to work and selling tons of stuff due to the influx of people getting tax refunds and buying that much need mattress they couldn't afford at any other time of the year.  Hoping I'd start my "get in shape" program that never seems to quite come to fruition.  Hoping I'd get back into church because it seems that things are always a little easier when I frequent that place.  That's a lot of hope and change and we all know I'm not a Barrack Obama fan so I've steered clear of it so far this year and have remained sloth.

1Corinthians 3:16-17 tells us, "Do you not know that your are God's temple and that God's spirit dwells in you?  If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him.  For God's temple is holy and your are that temple."  I have definitely abused the temple and kept it unholy.  My muffin top and premature aging from the bad things I do to my body tells me that everyday.  It's hard to see how being lazy and slothlike is a positive thing.  Everything about it says it's bad but I'm going to try to see the upside of being a lazy, good for nothing couch potato.

There have been many morning afters when the night before I've given into some sort of lust, made a glutton of myself with cocktails, been greedy with the last cocktail and the next day practiced the deadly sin of sloth.  We've discussed all the previously mentioned sins so you should be well versed in them but sloth is the opposite, physically, of all the others because I basically lay there like a corpse doing nothing.  Now you may say, "Nickie, there's no way to put a positive spin on you making two moves the day after a night of sinning."  Those two moves being me moving from my bed to the couch then back to the bed.  You challenged me so I'll take that challenge.  Here it is...while laying there in a comatose state, I've got time to let my mind go blank or let it wander around in its dark corners, it's my choosing.  If I choose to let it go blank as I sit motionless, it gives me a much needed break from the constant worrying about money, work, am I running out of eggs for children, will I ever get married?  All of these things are constantly on my mind and they give me a constant headache and I never used to get headaches so this isn't working for me.  If my mind wanders, as it has been known to do, I can come up with plans to help alleviate the money and work issues, tell myself that people are having children later in life and remind myself that I live in Picayune and the pickings for men are slimmer than a heroin addict.  These are all things I do when I'm practicing the deadly sin of sloth on day afters.  Of course, the night befores are usually brought about my trying to forget about all the things I just mentioned.  It's a vicious cycle but I do what I can to keep myself sane and if meditating on my couch without moving or communicating with anyone is the remedy for insanity then I shall continue to practice my sloth ways until a solution is achieved.

So there you have it, my excuse for committing one of the deadly sins.  I'm not saying it's right because we all know it's not and in a perfect world we'd all without sin but you know as well as I that when you look in the mirror, you're looking at a sinner.  God knows you're a sinner so look at your sinning ways and try to love yourself the way He because when you do, you'll stop making excuses as to why you commit the deadly sins and try to find that heavenly bliss that we so crave.