we were created with a healthy yearning for happiness. Happiness consists in a life well lived, a life lived pursuing good things in the right way – a virtuous life that gradually puts our whole mind and heart in fuller and fuller communion with God, the source of all good things. That is what we were created to do. In God’s original plan, this desire for happiness through doing good things well is the lampthat gives the light of hope, joy, and meaning to the soul as it journeys towards God.
But when sin entered the picture, it disrupted the inner harmony of the human person. We still yearn for happiness, but we have a tendency to seek it in the wrong places – to desire wrongly, to seek the good through self-indulgence instead of through self-forgetful love. That wrong desire darkens the soul, filling it with frustration, anger, depression, and anxiety.
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