The Seven Deadly Sins

Day 30

Time flies.

One thing I learnt in the last 30 days is that love cannot be bought, sold nor exchanged. But, love can certainly be stolen from you and sometimes, begged from and borrowed. The other thing I learnt is "What matters to me are the intangibles, not the tangibles". And that...

What is the use of having all the material possessions and money in the world when you have no one by your side?

Some lessons should be learnt...

Less pride, more humility
Less greed, more generosity
Less envy, more love
Less anger, more kindness
Less lust, more self control
Less gluttony, more faith and temperance
Less sloth, more zeal.

Seeing ourselves as we are and not comparing ourselves to others is humility. Pride and vanity are competitive.

Generosity means letting others get the credit or praise. It is giving without having expectations of the other person. Greed wants to get its "fair share" or a bit more.

"Love is patient, love is kind" Love actively seeks the good of others for their sake. Envy resents the good others receive or even might receive. Envy is almost indistinguishable from pride at times.

Kindness means taking the tender approach, with patience and compassion. Anger is often our first reaction to the problems of others. Impatience with the faults of others is related to this.

Lust is the self-destructive drive for pleasure out of proportion to its worth. Sex, power, or image can be used well, but they tend to go out of control.

Temperance accepts the natural limits of pleasures and preserves this natural balance. This does not pertain only to food, but to entertainment and other legitimate goods, and even the company of others.

Zeal is the energetic response of the heart to God's commands. The other sins work together to deaden the spiritual senses so we first become slow to respond to God and then drift completely into the sleep of complacency.

Today, I am grateful for knowing the truth.

For that One of a Kind experiments