Why Not Allow Yourself to be Comforted?

Do we always possess a clear idea of what we need to be happy … of what happiness consists in? There’s no more urgent subject. When we don’t pay attention to our need for happiness, we can become deceived into believing that our happiness consists in pleasure, possessions, power, or popularity. None of these things are ever enough … but they become a priority in our life, they begin to turn into idols. And then when the invitation from the King comes, we not only refuse it but become even violent towards it. Dominican Fr. M.D. Molinié, O.P., alludes to this when he writes, “Deep inside us there is a sly resistance. I think that the deepest and most irremediable pride consists of refusing to accept the infinite so as to ‘be content’ with what is within our reach.”