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May you be as intentional in attaining heaven,
as you are in reaching your other life goals.
Most of us have goals. In order to reach those goals we have to make plans.
When our goal is vacation we make plans: where to go, when to go, how long to be gone, what to pack.
When our goal is an education for ourselves and eventually, perhaps, for our children, we make a plan: how far to travel, how much we can afford to pay, what to study.
When our goal for adult life is looming, we make plans: whether to stay single, get married, become a priest or religious or have a career.
When our goal is getting through today, we make plans on a smaller scale as well: what to wear to work, what to have to eat, with whom to have lunch.
What about our ultimate goal, heaven? If your ultimate goal is not heaven, nothing else you do in life will matter. You can be the best accountant, basketball player, doctor, or teacher in the world, but if heaven is not your ultimate goal, your life will not be lived for its intended purpose.
If heaven is your goal, how intentional are you in reaching that goal?
Being baptized and confirmed is not enough. You have to live intentionally for God.
You have to follow the Commandments: love God with all your being and love your neighbor as yourself.
That is being intentional.
As intentional as feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and imprisoned, sheltering the homeless and burying the dead. Sound familiar?
As intentional as instructing the ignorant, counseling the doubtful, admonishing the sinner, bearing wrongs patiently, forgiving offenses willingly, comforting the afflicted, and praying for the living and the dead. These should sound familiar as well.
When we do these works intentionally, we are living with heaven as our goal.
(See Matthew 25: 34-40)
So, I repeat:
May you be as intentional in attaining heaven, as you are in reaching your other life goals.
What about our ultimate goal, heaven? If your ultimate goal is not heaven, nothing else you do in life will matter. You can be the best accountant, basketball player, doctor, or teacher in the world, but if heaven is not your ultimate goal, your life will not be lived for its intended purpose.
If heaven is your goal, how intentional are you in reaching that goal?
Being baptized and confirmed is not enough. You have to live intentionally for God.
You have to follow the Commandments: love God with all your being and love your neighbor as yourself.
That is being intentional.
As intentional as feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and imprisoned, sheltering the homeless and burying the dead. Sound familiar?
As intentional as instructing the ignorant, counseling the doubtful, admonishing the sinner, bearing wrongs patiently, forgiving offenses willingly, comforting the afflicted, and praying for the living and the dead. These should sound familiar as well.
When we do these works intentionally, we are living with heaven as our goal.
(See Matthew 25: 34-40)
So, I repeat:
May you be as intentional in attaining heaven, as you are in reaching your other life goals.
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