Chapter 38: The Top of Happiness

In a kind of cause and effect way, we have sin to thank for salvation.

Someone had to save us from ourselves; Christmas brings us that someone.

Christ absolves all humanity through His suffering, death, Resurrection, and Ascension. But we remain imprisoned by our individual unhappiness as we make our weary way towards His gift.

We prefer to argue and disagree with each other about the existence and validity of salvation rather than commit to attaining it. Look at the controversy surrounding the Shroud if you need an example.

The beginning of a New Year is a well-timed event. What would it mean to each of us (and all of us) if we were to resolve ourselves to:

Reach in to the bottom of our unhappiness

Figure out once and for all what drives it, what feeds it

Absolve ourselves

Exchange ourselves to remedy it

Reach up to the top of our happiness

What if individual salvation was the collective New Year's resolution, our here-on-earth gift to ourselves and to God.