Do you ever think about heaven? We are only here on Earth for the blink of an eye. This is not our home. That’s why the happiness that God wants and created us for is very different from the fleeting happiness and momentary pleasures of this world. We are just passing through, and it is helpful to remind ourselves of that from time to time.

If there is one battle that resistance has dominated in the hearts and minds of Catholics for the past 50 years, it surrounds confession. We just stopped going. We all have a great need for healing. But we resist it. We resist God. We resist his forgiveness. We resist happiness.