Live the Good Life - Live Devout

"Here is what I feel I must say to you in the Lord today. To live a devout life without failing, all you need do is to fix some excellent and generous maxims in your mind".  St. Pio of Pietrelcina

What spiritual maxims do you live by?  A while back I read "Cheaper By The Dozen" about a father of a family with twelve children.  Aside from the normal difficulties of life, this father had developed little ways to help educate and form his children in his home.  One of the many ways he did this was to have phrases, math charts, foreign languages, etc painted on the walls of their beach house.  When I heard this something perked up in my mind and heart.

The next day I took out a permanent marker and started writing spiritual maxims on our bathroom wall.  I figured this was a great place because everyone would have to visit it everyday and be a captive audience.  Our list grew through things we had read and also through friends and family.  See, we had left a couple of markers near the wall for anyone to add something worthwhile.

Although we had to leave that wall behind when we moved, we have created a new "wall" in our present bathroom.  It is framed and the markers are nearby.  Just the other day my wife's brother commented that he always thinks about a quote he saw on our bathroom wall, "I'll sleep later" (for the life of me, I can't remember what saint said that!).  He stated that this statement had resonated with him again and again!

So again, what spiritual maxims do you live by?  Start to gather your guiding principles as they will form the person that God is asking you to be.  St. Pio pray for us!