Show me a man or woman who has been steadfast with one's highest moral and ethical aspirations and you will have presented, well, let's say a modern-day saint! Surely, if nothing else, he or she will be seen as a most unusual person.
Recently in several of these blogs you have read words from the pen of Saint Henry Cardinal Newman, the most recent British saint. Here are words that aptly fit the sentiments of the first paragraph: "...here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." Such is the life of a son or daughter of Adam and Eve, the bearers of Original Sin!
How many times have individuals, like ourselves, driven their lives along a path that ultimately is recognized as the incorrect or improper roadway. Perhaps nothing could be more disappointing, frustrating or exaspirating. Then how easy it is to begin the blame and guilt trips that accomplish little more than useless pain.
Wrong choices are not unusual. Isn't that the reason for U-Turns and erasers? Consider these words from the first reading in today's liturgy: "You need not be ashamed of all your deeds." Zephaniah's words, given him by the Lord God, should affirm us in our needed U-Turns, our use of needed erasure marks.
Isn't our God a marvelous God? Are we not blessed by this forgiveness, his outpoured love?
