The moments which are approaching are more serious than you can possibly imagine. And so I want to prepare you so that at the opportune moment you will all be ready.
Blue Book 47 h
Here are some of your weapons against his temptations:
Be open to your spiritual director.
Sprinkle holy water on yourself, and especially on your bed, and your place of work.
Use common sense, together with a sense of humor and the ability to laugh at yourself.
With regard to personality clashes, ask yourself, “If so-and-so is such a pill to me, maybe I’m more of a pill to him or her.”
Grace in Every Season (March 7)
In 1 Peter 5:8 we hear “Have sound judgment. Be alert. Your adversary, the Devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.”
We don’t have to cower in fear, but we do need to be prepared and stay alert (in a state of grace…sin makes us drowsy). This is not a time for naïveté.
Our eyes (and feet) need to stay on the path that has been assigned to us. Once we’re prepared, the blinders need to come on to everything and everyone but God’s will or we WILL be swept away.
There’s a Netflix movie called ‘Bird Box’, starring Sandra Bullock. Where monsters (evil spirits?) of some sort take over the world and whoever looks at them goes mad and dies. So in order to get through to their final destination…a refuge, they need to keep their windows covered and wear blinders whenever out doors. hmm. Sounds like a spiritual allegory to me representing these current times. Also very similar in nature to the prophecy of the three days of darkness.