Not Augustine but true nonetheless. Presumption and despair are two sides of the same coin of failing to understand why we were given this life by God. He wants us all to be saved, but if we are not, it is because we valued other things beyond our salvation.
Thought for the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I worry about how much of Protestantism is based on presumption, at least the modern version with its idea of a “born again” moment. This also ties into why I can’t stand the song “Amazing Grace” as a Catholic hymn.
As for the rest of society, the nones, I have to assume most of them are in some kind of despair. I don’t know, maybe it’s just because I recently watched Breaking Bad. But the idea of a person nearing the end of his life becoming terrible, I mean, under modern materialism, why wouldn’t it happen? If you believe that you find your greatest happiness as a teacher and father, then realize you could find a little more happiness selling meth, it doesn’t even count as a change in philosophy or temperament.
Teaching, adultery, meth, murder.
The pursuit of happiness finds very slender fences once the fences of God’s Law are thrown down.
TBO:
The Pursuit of Happiness is the Pursuit of Truth.