Seek truth with heart

Dear editor: Forget resolutions, they are born in the ego and destined to perish there. Noble desires in the heart and willingness to work with them are the stuff that lead us into the splendor of our human existence. St. Therese, Doctor of the Church, prayed simply: God, increase in my heart the desire of loving you!

People need no longer live in the dead past, but can always embrace the live present. How many of us are willing to declare to ourselves our fragility, the truth about ourselves? Can this new year be such as to open up for us worlds within ourselves that have long been ignored, isolated and have become now practically inaccessible to us.

I suggest for consideration three great desires or invitations to willingness for the start of a new life.

1. Learn to communicate. We live in an ocean of iPhones, but there is so little to communicate. Read, read and then read some more. Seek and we will find our hearts desire.

2. Seek the truth in 2018 with all your heart.

3. Believe in the gift of fortitude. St. Bruno the founder of the Carthusians, who base their existence on God alone, said: “The greatest human drama that can ever exist is in resisting the evil one and the indispensable virtue for this is fortitude. This inner struggle is destined to be played out somewhere in this life by everyone in the world.”

Fortitude is never conquered. If it is conquered it is not fortitude. Without fortitude, neither wisdom or justice or power is worth anything. It is one of the gifts of the Spirit underlined in Confirmation and available to all. Fr. Harry Clarke Kelowna