To See The Light

This reflection talks about spiritual blindness and the complacency that effects it. The first question asks: How on earth are we to break out of this vicious circle? I have an answer that's a little too easy. Well there is the new translation of the English Roman Missal. Mass is no longer something we go to blindly saying the lines. Now we are a little more aware of what we are saying. Sometimes the things we are saying are a little weird or awkward. We become curious as to why we are now saying those things. This can (I say can, cuz many won't) look into what those answers are by educating ourselves. Through this we come into a better understanding of the Mass and we are no longer complacent with it but are finding out new and exciting things about it everyday!
Question #2 (which is really a series of 3 questions): Let us ask if we are wholly and unreservedly living for God? Or do we allow ourselves to listen to the first whisperings of evil, of resentment, of anger against another? Do we give way to curious, interfering reflections on our neighbors, to doubt, anxiety, depression, scruples and so forth? We probably could say yes, (I envy those who truly can) but that is a very hard thing to do. If we are spiritually blind then we aren't seeing what we need to fix in our lives. Like the verse that says something like don't point out the splinter in another's eye until you see the plank in your own. Everyday we are faced with things that we need to say "Will going this way make me live for or against God?" It's an ongoing battle.