Life often encourages us to define real. At some point our friends, loved ones will tell us to define reality.
Since this is the last Sunday in August, the official end to the summer season, I think that this might be a good time to examine our minds and sould.
This is a great time to review our ideals. What are some simple, general ideals that you have? How do your ideals influence or shape your life?
In a couple of weeks, autumn will begin. As the seasons change, our understanding of virtue should also change and deepen. Now is a great time search for how virtue influences your life. What are some virtues which people might associate with you?
As a Christian we must both understand and try to infuse the virtues into our everyday lives; it is not sufficient to say that I am baptized, but our actions must proclaim the love we feel for God in the deeds that we do for others. Hopefully when virtues are honestly infused in our hearts and in our lives we will be filled with and share God’s grace, love, and compassion. Virtue sometimes inspires either questions or assumptions; reason is easily obscured when confusion closes the curtains of truth.
A noisy late summer afternoon stretches and reclines around this great city. The anxious traffic on the old raggedy streets barely stop when the light turns red, accelerates into intersections as the lights turn green and a man leaves church thinking about incorporating the Christian virtues into his life.
Sunday is a great day to think of humility.
We must always remember the sacrifice and love of Jesus Christ and strive to share unconditional love and compassion with both familiar and unknown people.
As I write this, I acknowledge the difficulty in doing this but at the same time I can see the benefits of doing it.
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