THE MANIFESTATION OF GOOD AND EVIL
WEDNESDAY, THIRTEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Gen 21:5,8-20; Ps 34:7-8,10-13; Mt 8:28-34 Our Actions and the Consequences By our choices, we invite heaven to live within each of us and among us, and also by our choices, we bring hell within us and among us. The freedom of our will, which is a unique gift we have received from God, brings us into communion with heaven or hell. The daily choices each of us makes contribute to our personal and communal well-being or disaster. It all depends on the resultant effect of good actions against evil actions. As we read yesterday from the Genesis passage, Lot and his family narrowly escaped the destructive effects of the evil lifestyle of the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. The advancement in science has shown that every movement of the wind, even the single flap of a butterfly’s wings, contributes to the occurrences of windstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes in some part of the Earth. Thus, we understand how intricately connected things and even...