Search engines on the Internet reflect our concerns in real-time. During Christmas, many people look for solutions for their lives using keywords such as recipes, gifts, and decorations. However, when summer comes, the most frequent searches include terms such as hydration, conciliation, and packing. Below, I will tell you about these words that are so searched for in summer, because I have discovered that the best thing for conciliation and hydration is related to suitcases.
When I mention hydration, I am not referring to refreshing drinks such as gazpacho or watermelon. It is about the hydration that Pope Francis referred to when he invited us to drink from the well of prayer. With this spiritual water, everything flows better: conciliation, time to rest, and time to take care of your partner. Naturally, you ask yourself: “But when do I pray?” Now, precisely when it seems that you have no time for anything, it is crucial to find that time for prayer.
I’ll explain it to you with the example of a suitcase. This week, I heard an organization expert say that a well-organized suitcase holds a lot more things. The same thing happens in our lives: the more organized it is, the more things we can do.
We can also include our spiritual hydration. Don’t be tempted to think that it’s a waste of time. You’re not going backward, you’re gaining momentum. If there’s ever a time when we need this spiritual hydration, it’s now: when the children depend on us 24 hours a day, when they get bored and fight more, when teenagers start going out and routines get disrupted.
By hydrating the soul with prayer, we not only have our intelligence, experience, and resources to organize our life in the best possible way. We also have divine help, a guide with infinite experience. This will help us to reconcile better and give us recommendations that we wouldn’t have thought of on our own, allowing us to feel that we have control over our life. On the contrary, if we spend the summer without this spiritual hydration, we will find ourselves putting out unforeseen fires.
The time you dedicate will always be rewarded, whether it is 5, 7 or 10 minutes. My suggestion: how about half an hour? When? The sooner, the better: before the children wake up. I know that getting up early is not the most appealing thing on vacation, but it always pays off. This practice will provide you with unique spiritual water that hydrates the soul.
Practice the countdown. This term, which I read in a home organization manual, suggests that if you need to be somewhere at a certain time, you should calculate the time needed to get ready and wake up in advance. If you want to be at the beach at 12:00, with the house and food ready, and with your soul well hydrated, calculate what time you need to get up.
It is easy to waste half an hour on your cell phone. Those minutes slip away like grains of sand. It would be a great investment to dedicate that time to hydrating ourselves spiritually.
Facing heat waves always comes with the advice of using sun protection. From here, we cannot be less. After moisturizing body and soul, all that remains is to protect the skin of the whole family, preferably with SPF 50 cream, and also protect the soul of all our loved ones with the SPF 50 provided by each of the Hail Marys of the Holy Rosary.
With this hydration and protection, we will rest more and better despite having less time, and we will enjoy the summer holidays more consciously. And in the suitcase of your life, thanks to spiritual hydration, at the end of the summer you will find space for many good resolutions.
