Temptations never seem to leave us; they are like mosquitoes buzzing around and penetrating our slap-happy defenses. As with mosquitoes, we might ask, "What purpose do they serve?" Well, mosquitoes do provide nourishment for birds, and temptations help us build up a "defense system" over the years to help us ward off "the big one", when it comes. Padre Pio wisely admonished that a temptation-less life would make us more vulnerable when we are older and complacent after many years without major temptations. Resistance takes time to develop like the magnificent cedars of Lebanon which can be propagated from branches placed in dry soil, which take root, and eventually tower over all. Even in dry soil! How often we feel dry and that no progress is being made in our battle with temptations. Yet the deep prayer it takes to deal with the small ones helps us to be strong over time against the big ones. Everthing serves a purpose; nothing is random, mosquitoes, cedars included. May God grant us patience and persistence as well as insight to see HIS purposes.
Bro. Rene
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