Fr. Gregory Pine

If we floss with, I don't know, like an iron file, we're gonna cause problems for our enamel.

Nature sets the terms according to which we flourish.

And St.

Thomas's estimation, like God is at the summit of creation.

And unless you enshrine that fact in your interior life, your exterior life will be a little bit chaotic because you'll be living in rebellion.

You'll be living contrary to what is.

And the only way in which to flourish is to live in harmony with what is.

And now mind you, there's gotta be scope there for growth.

Because if we don't just say like, these are how things are, I give up.

It's something to which we aspire.

Because, yeah, like I might know that God is to be preferred to all things, but at certain times it might be difficult for me.

You know, if you put me through like Navy SEALs hell week and I've only had three hours of sleep over the course of the last three days and you say like, time to say the breviary, I might be like, you know, it might not be pretty.

Right.

But nevertheless, like it remains for us to appropriate that, to take that on board as best we can over the whole course of our life.

And that's part of what's exciting about being human.

Yeah.

No, it's, you often, yeah, you hear this,

in theological circles as well.

But this notion that, so the law is for our good.

That's something that a lot of people