I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
~ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Our freedom to choose for good, or not so good reveals our human condition.
C. S. Lewis reminds us that walking the road of hard knocks is a brutal teacher, but by God do we learn. Here lies the dilemma for every human person will time, after time make self defeating choices..no exceptions. We learn all that we need to learn transforming us into mature adults when heeding the counselling surfacing from within our thoughts leading us out of our self created mess, repairing all the damage that our earlier decisions had inflicted upon us.
One of the many advantages we Catholics rejoice in, is our membership of The Church of Sinners. In other words we know that we need the saving grace of Our Saviour, to extricate us from our self imposed wounds, counselling us to follow His wise advice in all matters. Thus, as Catholics, we know that we are imperfect human beings in need of being saved from our self seeking choices.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ~ Romans 3:23
While it is acknowledged that we are made in the image of God, there is that awareness that our freedom to choose can lead us down a blind alley into a dead end called catastrophe.
“But God doesn't change.'
'Men do, though.'
'What difference does that make?'
'All the difference in the world.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Change for the better might well remind each of us that there is no time like the present, to resume our relationship, our friendship with The Father leading us to celebrate all that we have been born to live for.
I offer a short (5 minutes), and educational BBC tv interview with Aldous Huxley from 1961 discussing the rise of artificial intelligence.
I recommend viewing for Aldous Huxley's forecasts from 62 years ago are proving to be right on the button today :
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1942626972759778
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