5 Ways Of Practicing Mortification Without Others Knowing

[homeschoolmom]

Make the shower a little bit cooler than you'd normally set it to.

[Selah]

Go for an evening walk when you really don't feel like getting up and getting dressed. Just to spend some alone time with God. It's super special awesome.

[incarnatewordsister]

I do not refuse food offered to me even the one that I don't like. I eat it anyway. And give thanks to God.

[CatherineM]

Eating a fish fillet from McDonalds is an entirely separate form of self mortification.

[Selah]

eating [i]anything [/i]from McDonald's would be a seperate form of self mortification

[Wikitiki]

I agree.

Oh man, I agree so hard.

I have a story, actually: It was one of my last days before school started, so I wanted to be home as much as I possibly could (I'm a total homebody). My grandma usually takes one of my brothers to McDonald's every Wednesday (he's autistic, and it's become part of The Schedule, which means we have some major problems if he doesn't get to go). When I'm home, she always tries to get me to go with them. For most of the summer, I had totally blown her off and either said I had already eaten or just wasn't hungry. I decided to be nice and go with them that day, sort of to make up for it, and I'd been having some extra hard problems with sin, so I figured it could only be good for me. She was supposed to take my brother to his doctor later, but that was a couple hours away, and she said that she'd take me "back to the house," so I thought I was okay.

But she ended up taking us both to her house to wait the few hours, and then we took him to the doctor's office together. It was seriously the entire day. We almost ate dinner at her house after that, but then my brother saved the day by saying he wanted to go home. The entire time I was thinking this was God saying, "You wanted to do some mortification? I understand how much you wanted to do, but this is how much I want you to do. I know you can take it." I think that was the only thought keeping me from ripping my hair out.

I have a million more stories like that, that one was the one that came to mind (it sort of fit in, I guess). I seem to always try to start small with mortification, and then God just goes, "Nope! More!" Usually to the point where I'm forced to remember that I should always completely lean on him, not just when things are stressing me out.

[fides quarens intellectum]

great list!! i really need to work on #1 and #3.

[Micah]

Number 1, starting tmr morning.

Oh and sleeping on the floor works, and if you're really hardcore try it on hardwood with a sheet.

[MissScripture]

Another one --Refrain from making a sarcastic comment, even if the set-up is perfect. (It's REALLY hard if you're used to being sarcastic...like REALLY HARD)

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='MissScripture' timestamp='1284131890' post='2171376']
Another one --Refrain from making a sarcastic comment, even if the set-up is perfect. (It's REALLY hard if you're used to being sarcastic...like REALLY HARD)
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Oh man, that's one I've had to work on a LOT... especially in the convent.

Maybe the Brits will take more naturally to sarcasm... Hahaha!

[AccountDeleted]

The hardest mortification for me is not to give my opinion about something....anything!

[strgzr99]

[quote name='nunsense' timestamp='1284134624' post='2171399']
The hardest mortification for me is not to give my opinion about something....anything!
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Ha! Nun,, that is SO TRUE--of me anyway. I have spent [i]my entire life[/i] growing up, it would seem, and only in recent years have I learned to practice --mortifications, otherwise known as being considerate of others. The major rule of married, or any type of, life, is Keeping your mouth shut. Resisting the put-down, the obvious observation, the dig at the easy target. People who practice this are not only popular and well-loved and respected, they are also saints.

[fides quarens intellectum]

[quote name='laetitia crucis' timestamp='1284134135' post='2171392']
Oh man, that's one I've had to work on a LOT... especially in the convent.

Maybe the Brits will take more naturally to sarcasm... Hahaha!
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we were actually taught that sarcasm was a sign of weakness in character mixed with uncharity, so yeah, you'll probably have to give it up.

It was so easy to fall back into sarcastic habits after leaving the convent, unfortunately. i still need to work on it.

[Selah]

Don't defend yourself. There's one that's especially hard for me

[Theologian in Training]

I have one. Flying on a plane, from Newark airport, tomorrow, September 11th. I am forming a very large prayer chain for tomorrow, I hate flying and, even more so, on September 11th, especially with all the peaceful actions from Muslims as of late.