Summer days often stimulate the thoughts that the “living should be easy!”  The days are long, the weather is warm, and thoughts of vacation days permeate our minds.  While all of these attributes of summer are true, the one thing that should be strengthened in the summer is our spiritual life.  Summer is the time for us to build a “spiritual bank account” so that when the challenging days of the fall descend we have spiritual stamina.  It is easy, however, to allow our summer spiritual life to slow down and even become inactive.