Thomas Aquinas writes:
In God there is a primary perfection, which is that He never changes
His nature. … Let us strive therefore to acquire a stability of
spirit…
Ah, how suddenly we pass from good to bad, from hope to groundless
fear, and from fear to hope, from joy to unreasonable grief, and from sadness to
vain joy, from silence to loquaciousness, from gravity to trifling, from charity
to rancor or to envy, from fervor to tepidity, from humility to vainglory or to
pride, from gentleness to anger, and from joy and spiritual love to carnal love
and pleasure.
In this way we never remain one single instant in the same condition,
unless, alas we are constant in inconstancy…..
Not a pretty picture, but pretty true for a lot of us. So let’s examine our
constancy as it applies to our vocation as father. (Let us not forget that a
whole book could be written with the same outline for our vocation as
husband.)
Where do we especially need a stability of spirit as fathers? Well, two areas
seem to leap out at us immediately: discipline and love.
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Oremus pro invicem!
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