Truth makes us free from being slaves to lies, deceit, and covetousness. We become enslaved to these things we we bend our will against conscience, respect for others, and seek to only further ourselves in life. Each one of us has an individual set of trials to endure; therefore, the attractiveness of the inclinations to live for oneself and harm others become stronger according to each of our own tribulations; however, there is a better way to live, and that is to allow the truth to surpass our trials and tribulations. Before understand what truth is, let us examine what truth is not, and what it does. First truth is not a subjective inclination, it is reality in its purest sense. Our perception of reality, subjective to our own senses and inclinations can be distorted. Thus understanding our reality becomes a daily task, rediscovering truth in everyday and every person, since we distort it ourselves. I say task because truth does not come naturally or easily for everyone. It is impossible to say how often or how consistently we as Catholics truly see Christ in everyone else as we should. It is more accurate to say that at times it is easy, and at the times when we should do our tasks most effectively, it is most difficult.
What is truth then, so that at we can know how to strive for it? Truth in its most human sense is the promotion of life universally. Truth in the Christian sense is threefold: God gave us life and the blessing to cherish it, we are flawed in our actions and need redemption of our soul, and that we have our redemption in Christ. Christ's redemption for us, through his saving graces, has several implications. One of which is our personal call to action. Our call to action rooted itself in truth, whether you are a believer or not, we are all called to live and benefit from truth. For life is God's greatest gift to us, it has confounded the great and the small since the human family can remember. What we do know however, that is is within us to place the lives of others above our earthly goals, and to mold our goals to make all of mankind our fraternal end, rather than the means towards a selfish end. Truth therefore points to and illuminates the importance of life.
Life is most evident of what unites us including those that lived before us, our own present, and those that will live after us. Treasuring the life of others should be our priority. It is in life that we are united. If all humanity valued life above all else, then war would never be an answer. It is because there is a disregard for the true value of life that we have mortal conflict in our world. Life is a part of the truth. If we fail to see life as part of the truth, we no longer have truth. Our actions should be grounded in Truth, all other foundations become grave folly. If truth ties itself to life, so too should our actions that are grounded in truth be grafted as a fruitful member of the wonderful tree of life.
Yet what makes life the foremost member of truth? No one can defend life without treasuring its sanctity; no one can treasure what they do not care about. The greatest compassion is love, and a deep abiding love brings to life the fullest focus, meaning, and purpose in truth. Love is not an emotion, it is a conscience state of being. Emotions are swayed by our inclinations, but love takes us beyond ourselves into a new realm of the light of inexplicable, undeniable goodness. This case then becomes the fact that all goodness in life is a manifestation of the love that we share. For without love we cannot accept truth, nor discover it. Love's only purpose is unity with a bond of truth, for love cannot be founded on a lie-but only ultimate truth.
So our happiness matures into this: a grace of witnessing the acquiescence of truth, life and love within our lives and most especially within the lives of others. This fact leads to a type of purpose in life: to live it boldly in truth, uniting our lives together in love. Truly honest love naturally looks to promoting life. Promoting life leads us to understanding truth, when we do so in the spirit of Love. These three things of unity we've had all along. The human capacity to love is beyond measure, the reality of human life cannot be more clear, and your personal life's truth can only be understood in terms of its foundations. As we go through life, let's bring a little bit of each to everyone we meet, and one day the sum of all these things may bring humanity to a healthy unity.
Life is most evident of what unites us including those that lived before us, our own present, and those that will live after us. Treasuring the life of others should be our priority. It is in life that we are united. If all humanity valued life above all else, then war would never be an answer. It is because there is a disregard for the true value of life that we have mortal conflict in our world. Life is a part of the truth. If we fail to see life as part of the truth, we no longer have truth. Our actions should be grounded in Truth, all other foundations become grave folly. If truth ties itself to life, so too should our actions that are grounded in truth be grafted as a fruitful member of the wonderful tree of life.
Yet what makes life the foremost member of truth? No one can defend life without treasuring its sanctity; no one can treasure what they do not care about. The greatest compassion is love, and a deep abiding love brings to life the fullest focus, meaning, and purpose in truth. Love is not an emotion, it is a conscience state of being. Emotions are swayed by our inclinations, but love takes us beyond ourselves into a new realm of the light of inexplicable, undeniable goodness. This case then becomes the fact that all goodness in life is a manifestation of the love that we share. For without love we cannot accept truth, nor discover it. Love's only purpose is unity with a bond of truth, for love cannot be founded on a lie-but only ultimate truth.
So our happiness matures into this: a grace of witnessing the acquiescence of truth, life and love within our lives and most especially within the lives of others. This fact leads to a type of purpose in life: to live it boldly in truth, uniting our lives together in love. Truly honest love naturally looks to promoting life. Promoting life leads us to understanding truth, when we do so in the spirit of Love. These three things of unity we've had all along. The human capacity to love is beyond measure, the reality of human life cannot be more clear, and your personal life's truth can only be understood in terms of its foundations. As we go through life, let's bring a little bit of each to everyone we meet, and one day the sum of all these things may bring humanity to a healthy unity.
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