disclaimer: this is a neutral post, can be read by boys or girls
You can laugh at me, anyway, I got the inspiration to write this post in the church this morning. It is because I carried a carrier bag from an undergarment shop. The shop tagline is "It is what's on the inside."
Last month I was tempted to think, "My goodness, why is bra so expensive?? No one sees anyway, yet it's so expensive." Bra and dress can have a same price. The answer is in the carrier that I just got last night: "It is what's on the inside." Even if no one sees your undergarment, it is an important and an essential necessity. You need to have a good bra, not just an 'anyhow-bra'. You need to throw your worn out panties and get a new one. Not only undergarment, a hole on your socks needs to be stitched, even though "no one sees that."
Isn't our life like that too?
It's "what's on the inside." No one sees you pray, or doing your spiritual reading, or saying your rosary, or having an intimate conversation with your God,
but it's still an important part of you: interior life.
What's on the inside affect what's seen at the outside. That's precisely why the shop sells various types of undergarment: push-up bra, sports bra, whatever whatever. You can have a very beautiful dress, but you wear the 'wrong' bra, that's it man. Say good-bye to beautiful dress!You'll look not as nice as it could be.
And this thing about interior life is even more complicated than that. Firstly, of course we should strive to have a deep interior life to be able to bear fruit. Secondly, the purpose is not only for the 'outside', but also for our eternal life. So even though the norms of piety (the prayer, the spiritual reading, the mass, etc) seem useless, it's important to keep persevering in doing it. Even though these norms seem taking sooo much time, remember that it affects our life sooo much and the most important thing in this life is God.
So as the shop said, "It's what's on the inside."
You can laugh at me, anyway, I got the inspiration to write this post in the church this morning. It is because I carried a carrier bag from an undergarment shop. The shop tagline is "It is what's on the inside."
Last month I was tempted to think, "My goodness, why is bra so expensive?? No one sees anyway, yet it's so expensive." Bra and dress can have a same price. The answer is in the carrier that I just got last night: "It is what's on the inside." Even if no one sees your undergarment, it is an important and an essential necessity. You need to have a good bra, not just an 'anyhow-bra'. You need to throw your worn out panties and get a new one. Not only undergarment, a hole on your socks needs to be stitched, even though "no one sees that."
Isn't our life like that too?
It's "what's on the inside." No one sees you pray, or doing your spiritual reading, or saying your rosary, or having an intimate conversation with your God,
but it's still an important part of you: interior life.
What's on the inside affect what's seen at the outside. That's precisely why the shop sells various types of undergarment: push-up bra, sports bra, whatever whatever. You can have a very beautiful dress, but you wear the 'wrong' bra, that's it man. Say good-bye to beautiful dress!You'll look not as nice as it could be.
And this thing about interior life is even more complicated than that. Firstly, of course we should strive to have a deep interior life to be able to bear fruit. Secondly, the purpose is not only for the 'outside', but also for our eternal life. So even though the norms of piety (the prayer, the spiritual reading, the mass, etc) seem useless, it's important to keep persevering in doing it. Even though these norms seem taking sooo much time, remember that it affects our life sooo much and the most important thing in this life is God.
So as the shop said, "It's what's on the inside."
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