Our Eyes Are Dim!

Maybe I have been stretching a bit in my past reflections on the Sunday readings for Mass (here and here, and finally here ). In my heart I have been brought back again and again to the theme that we have dimmed our eyes and weakened virtues by relying on over-sentimental visions of the Sacred Scriptures and thus of the Lord Himself.  It is our growing inability to perceive the unseen, and to seek out the Lord in the wonders that we are surrounded by. We want to grasp God and quantify Him, examine Him under a microscope.  And this weakens our faith, and our strength as a society.  We cannot produce true justice, because we do not have the strength, wisdom and enduring compassion to actually see it through.  In our guilt at failing our fellow man in building each other  up virtue we fall back on "fairness" which in turn continues the downward spiral until I fear we will not have many people who will be able to see or understand transcendent truths or values.  It will be as C.S. Lewis predicted in his book The Abolition of Man.  If you haven't read it, you should!