are quick to counter it with the lie that “there is no right and wrong, it’s just a
matter of individual preference.”
The truth is, we have to learn to do well, and this begins with ceasing to
do evil. This is the purpose of our lives in this world. The world we’re living
in now, sorting out what is right and wrong, is a training ground for life in
heaven. It is the battlefield on which our souls are tested so that we might
“choose life” and enter into the peace of heaven.
Surrender is not an option. Simply to just accept the natural character you
were born with, with its inclinations toward disorders of various kinds, as the
real you, amounts to turning your back on the potential every human being
has to become an angel.
Each person has his own cross to bear, and no two are exactly the same.
We have not walked in anyone else’s shoes. We should not condemn anyone
for a particular weakness that happens not to be one of the ones we ourselves
have had to deal with. We have all fallen short of the perfection the Lord seeks
for us, and none of us “deserves” the happiness He seeks to give us.
The Lord loves everyone, condemns no one, punishes no one. But at the
same time, and for the very reason that He does love everyone and wants
everyone to be happy, He forbids things which, however much some might
find them desirable or convenient, are harmful to people’s souls and bodies,
and to human society generally.
There are many things children need to be taught. And the sooner the
better, while they are in a receptive state of innocence, and before their minds
have been flooded with falsities that will have to be unlearned.
Today especially, they need to be taught the spiritual truths concerning
marriage, which are set forth with such clarity and in such detail in the book
Conjugial Love.
The simplest and most effective way of responding to the question -“what’s wrong with it?” – is to explain what is right. This is the primary and
most important thing. If children are thoroughly schooled in what is right,
then when they hear some alternative idea being proposed, and the question
“what’s wrong with it?” arises, they will already have the answer in their minds.
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