It’s still frozen here. Three degrees this morning. Seven degrees yesterday morning, though when it got up to 2o yesterday afternoon it felt downright warm. I can’t imagine what 40 degrees is going to feel like. Shorts weather.
It wasn’t that long ago that 40 was ice-cold and twenty unthinkable. It’s amazing how we get used to relative temperatures, how much and how quickly our bodies adjust to the environment.
But it’s more than our bodies. We are adaptable creatures, for good or ill. When we surround ourselves with beauty and light and goodness, we adapt to it, grow more into it. The opposite is also true. Mom was right: he was a bad influence on you and changed you.
And so St. Paul writes, “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” (Phil. 4:8)
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Fantastic insight.
Thanks!