When God placed his breath into us from the clay of the earth, he breathed life into us and showed us how to take care of his creation. Recently, in the RCIA program, I was talking about the sacrament of reconciliation. A big part of that sacrament addresses the Catholic moral life, God’s laws and commandments, and the sins we can commit, both venial sins and mortal sins. As our first reading tells us today, man could eat of any tree of the garden besides the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That tree can be likened to the many opportunities that are presented to us in life. Of those opportunities, God asks that we not choose evil. We know this in our hearts, right, but in our lived reality, it is not always easy to resist temptation and to give way to evil. It is not just an objective isolated theory, but a messy, lived reality. God’s unconditional love for us is always there, calling us to turn to the Gospel message and to turn away from sin. God’s love is there for us even in the midst of our sins and all we do wrong. Out of our free will, we are calle to be to turn back to him even when we sin. As we journey in these weeks of ordinary time before the liturgical season of Lent begins on March 6, once again we will turn to repentance, conversion, and renewal. Once again, we are called to trust in our faith. May we see this as a new opportunity in our lives, no matter how tough our reality is, no matter what temptations we face.
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