The Shot Not Heard Around the World

I failed to post on the ninth and tenth days of Lent because, quite frankly, I was immersed in the mundane. Fortunately, Sunday afforded the opportunity to have a heart-to-heart with my soulmate, an exchange of ideas and opinion with Mary that I cherish because such conversations with her always help me to crystallize some of the things I have been trying to say but have not found the words. “What will be different when everyone accepts a personal relationship with God?” I do not pretend to even know how to tell whether someone’s relationship to/with their Creator is authentic, but in mulling over the question I have come up with one tiny example that would signify to me a genuine relationship. A human being in harmony with its Creator will never shoot first. My confidence in this statement is one-hundred percent. Whether or not a human being in communion with God will ever shoot in self-defense, I do not know. But based on everything I have learned from Scripture, Tradition, Experience and Reason compels me to declare unequivocally that anyone truly in alignment with the Divine will never be the aggressor, the shooter, the killer.