Hello, All !
I try to generally write in the mornings, but you got to be flexible when you have a son who has his own ideas for my itinerary haha. Not to mention the draft I had previously typed up yesterday that my husband so kindly looked over for me needs a lot of work, I`ll get to posting it, but just not now, since I don’t feel like looking at that mess right now.( You realize how much of a procrastinator I am by that last sentence. Haha)
So I got to do some more reading in “Peace of Soul” that I had previously mentioned a few posts ago… As it was written by Archbishop Fulton J.Sheen who has been deceased now for at least a couple of decades, I can’t help, but feel like that there are certain parts in this book that were written almost directly to me. It`s shameful to realize just how much what he talks about applies to me, but yet, I am thankful that I have read what I have so far because as painful as it is to read the ugly truth about your own personal sins it will hopefully only bring me to the fact of doing something more than being blind to it!
The particular chapter that has hit home for me as of this point is “Morbidity and The Denial of Guilt” there was a point in this chapter that discussed the “nice” person who is the one whose sins may not be public, and these people are usually never tagged as sinners, as those amongst us who all of society knows is a sinner such as thieves, drunks,street walkers, ect.
Yet these “nice” people who are no different than the Pharisee,(Which our Lord had explained in a parable it was the Pharisees pride that of which was his source to his own destruction. )I realize now that I am unfortunately the Pharisee. I have this same fault of wanting to in my mind , be the one who thinks to myself that ” I am not as bad as so n` so , or I have never committed this sin such as this person has.”
And may I say how truly eye opening it has been for me in reading what was written by Archbishop Sheen, that it was the same group of people such as the Pharisees that crucified our Lord. Not the publicly known sinners of the society, but the people who considered themselves the “Saints” of society and in this thought process it clearly shows their sin of pride ,and that it was these same people who sent the Son of God to His death. May God have mercy on me for being just as guilty as the men who crucified Christ.
I am so thankful to have had access to this book, and God willing I pray He forgives me for my sin of pride, and that I will practice in that in which I have learned!
Now that I accidentally made this post into more of a opening up of my personal wrongs, I pray you didn’t suffer to much in reading along with me being just down right honest with you. But I do thank you for taking the time to listen to me!
May you all have a good (and peaceful 😉 )night !
Until next time,
“Toodles”
In our Lady of Fatima,
Beth
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