"Muscle and a Shovel"

For Christmas, my grandfather gave me a book entitled "Muscle and a Shovel."  I'm in the process of reading it, and it has kept my attention.  It's an partial autobiography of the author, in that he writes of his conversion process from a lukewarm "Christian", to, I'm assuming, an on-fire, Gospel-obedient follower of Christ.

I'll try to keep you updated on my take of the book as I go.  I'd like to share with you one quote from the book, which speaks to its implicit desire to be a catechetical text:

"Doubt causes indesicion.  Indecision causes inaction.  Inaction causes us to put the impoartant back there where the unimportant things reside.  Inaction bauses idleness and additional doubt.  It builds a wall between what's important and what's unimportant.  Once those walls grow, it's difficult to know how to tear them down." (pg 27)

Yeah, it sounds a little like Yoda, and, to be honest, it's a bit too ambiguous on what is important, although I think the author intends to clarify this later in the text.  In all, however, it is accurate: doubt ultimately leads to inaction.  It does this because it is born of fear, an unhealthy fear, that paralyzes our ability not only to act, but to be receptive of God's grace.  Faith is stifled, hope is lost, and charity looses its foundation.

More to come.