You know that feeling when you've been putting something off and you can't quite relax: the conversation you need to have, the apology you owe, the habit you know you need to break? 

You tell yourself you'll deal with it later, and it sits there in the back of your mind–unchanged.

I think we do this more than we like to admit.  

We lose patience with our loved ones, grumble under our breath in line at the store because someone is taking too long, keep doing things we know aren't right. 

And then we tell ourselves it's fine because we're Catholic, we go to Mass, we'll get to confession eventually. We rationalize it because we have reasons, because we have faith, because we'll fix it ‘someday.’

But you can't build real peace on "I'll deal with it someday." 

Carrying around low-grade guilt all the time is unsettling and doesn’t allow for real peace, which comes from actually living aligned with what you believe, in the small moments and the hard ones. When you deal with things as they come up instead of letting them pile up, and God is part of your regular life and not just Sunday morning, you stop walking around with that knot in your chest.

You breathe easier. You feel more aligned with your faith.

This week, pick one thing you've been putting off and deal with it: could be an apology you owe someone, a conversation you've been avoiding, or a habit that's been eating at you. Just pick one and take care of it.  Choosing to live differently today instead of promising to change someday means you stop procrastinating on becoming who you're called to be. You'll be truly walking your path instead of just saying you will.

God Bless.

FF