Can we be awake to everything happening around us—and still be spiritually asleep?
Jesus gives a striking warning in Luke 21:34:
"Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life."
In this episode, Cyndi and Aimee discuss Fr. Paul Scalia's reflection Blessed Are the Woke of Heart and what it means to have a heart that is truly awake to God.
The danger isn't only obvious sin. Jesus specifically warns about the "anxieties of daily life"—the ordinary worries, distractions, and preoccupations that can gradually consume our attention and leave little room for God.
How do we recognize when this is happening? And how do prayer, vigilance, and turning our attention back to God awaken the heart again?
Perhaps the question isn't simply whether we're awake. It's what—or Whom—our hearts are awake to.
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