Catholic Life
Willing.
With the passage of time and living well, we're as accommodating to this world as if he were the only definitive and our country.
Indeed we are rooted to the earth we live, relatives, friends, material goods and we realize that one day we might lose one or more of these things.
It would be nice once in a while we did the exercise to rid ourselves, in imagination, of everything we have, as if death surprised us and we had to leave everything. It is not unreasonable to do this exercise because it really can come true at any time. We see in the story of Job, God allows this right soon lost their relatives, their wealth and even their health.
And what did Job face of such misfortune? The words of a fair: "The Lord gave, the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the Lord. If we accept God's property, why do we not receive evil also? "
Of course that evil comes from God, never comes from God, but the evil, but God allows it for reasons that sometimes understand, but understand that sometimes only in the hereafter.
Let us, then, from time to time, or very often, this exercise of imagination, having lost everything. And then not only give more value to what we have and we will look with different eyes, but that we will use the goods of fortune to do good works, because we just take you to the afterlife what we have done good and bad. We will love our relatives and best friends, enjoy them while we live, and we are pleased to be little or much health we have, because we often do not realize all the assets we have and we care about nonsense and trifles, and anything takes away peace.
Let's enjoy what we have, but we are willing to give God what he asks, whether material goods, relatives, friends or health.
