Sloth's offspring

Another bad thing about sloth is that in place of the movement towards Christ the soul then has to move toward something else. If I am not responding to God's grace then I am probably going to respond to some other false and temporary good. So once sloth is in place then greed, lust, gluttony, and a host of other distractions present themselves as ways to alleviate the dispondance(sp?) of the soul. Priests, and others, often complain of being burnt out. An incisive response is that one must have been on fire first in order to become burnt out. If I am burnt out it is probably that I have been seeking something other than the Kingdom of God. Sure I might be doing "holy" things for the Church and the people, but what is the source of my activity and work? Sloth cuts us off from grace and reality. Then we make ourselves busy with all sorts of things in order to avoid the presence of God. This activity can be often an escape from God, and eventually the soul becomes starved. Where is the joy? Where is the peace? The deception is to seek peace and joy in other place than in the heart of Christ.