I shouldn't be allowed to write when I am under the disillusionment of despair, as I was when I wrote my last entry. God, please forgive me.I should learn from what Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati has said about young adult life:
"Every Catholic cannot but be joyful. Sadness ought to be banished from Catholic souls. Sorrow is not sadness, which is a worse illness than any other. This illness is nearly always caused by atheism. But the purpose for which we have been created shows us the path--even if strewn with many thorns--is not a sad path. It is joyful, even in the face of sorrow. We should not waste the most wonderful years of our life, as unfortunately do so many unhappy young people, who are preoccupied with enjoying the 'good life,' which does not result in good but which brings the fruit of immorality into our modern society. In order for our life to be Christian, it must be a continual renunciation, a continual sacrifice which, however, is not burdensome (when we only think about what these few years passed in sorrow are) compared with a happy eternity, where joy will have no measure nor end, and where we will enjoy a peace beyond anything we could imagine. Because true happiness, young people, does not consist in the pleasures of the world and in earthly things, but in peace of conscious, which we can have only if we are pure in heart and in mind."
May God grant me this perspective in my heart, and may my writings never again distract us from the truth!
