Our days are filled with things that compete for our attention. Our jobs, our families, and our friends demand our time. This doesn’t include the new hobbies that interest us or the side ventures we want to take. Everything demands our time.
But what about our spiritual fulfillment? Is this getting the attention it needs and deserves?
The business of our day-to-day lives can distract us from what’s best for us. It’s easy to forget that we can only be good at our jobs and for our family and friends if we are first good to ourselves.
To me, David Teniers the Younger’s painting “Guardroom with the Deliverance of Saint Peter” reminds us to be good to ourselves….