May 18, 2024

What good is it to gain the whole world but to lose my soul?  This spiritual precept may be simple, but somehow we all seem to end up as prodigals.  How easy it is, indeed, to go after a career at the expense of our vocation.  How easy it is to hang out with the rich and famous at the expense of our friends.  How easy it is to pursue the good-looking at the expense of our true love.   How easy it is to build a dream house at the expense of our home.  Such decisions happen in an instant, and before we know it, these ideas start to occupy our core and center as we blindly, and tragically, lose touch with ourselves.  Let’s therefore double-down on the spiritual life.  Let’s beg for the grace to convert our clasping hands into open palms.  Let’s get comfortable with being little and simple.  Let’s learn to celebrate the whole world and relinquish the need to possess anything ever again.  Ave Crux, Spes Unica.