![]() When we make our sensual desires our gods, we are left wanting. What do I live for now, what is my desire? Is it food, sex, entertainment, pleasure? The comforts of life are not inherently bad things but when we value sensual pleasures more than God we run into problems. We are tempted to think that things which are less than God will satisfy us. We do not want to accept that God is God and we are not. Rather than accepting the goodness of our existence we find ourselves naked from abundance and freedom to self-centredness and ego. ‘Don’t tell me what to do God, I know what is best for me, I decide what is right and wrong, good and evil!’ We live in a relativistic world where we want to be our own God. But what do we do? Do we cooperate with God’s goodness? No, we choose to violate what God wants for us. ![]() Paradise, everything one could possibly need, humanity fully alive. In our first reading we are given this image of the Garden of Eden, beautiful, lush, and abundant. Have you ever done something completely overindulgent and then regretted it afterward, like binge watched several tv seasons, or eaten too much of something, or done something which you know you shouldn’t have but did it anyway because it felt good? Almost immediately after the emotions and hormones subside, we reflect and regret. ![]()
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