"You can choose your sin, but you can't choose the consequence of your sin.”
Most of you know I am currently at school at St. Gregory’s University in Shawnee, Oklahoma. At the beginning of this semester, I was in a play called Firebugs. I didn't have a very big role, but it was my first real play or performance. I have never really appreciated plays until now. Seeing how much work, time, everyone puts into it makes you really think about it.
Anyways, as we practiced, people would forget the lines or not have memorized them. I didn't have all that many so it wasn't really that hard for me. When you are trying to learn your lines you also have to learn the lines of the person who talks right before you, so you know when to start yours. There were a few times during rehearsal that the person who talks to me would change the line or forget completely. So, I would have a harder time knowing when to say mine, and then the person after me wouldn’t know if I didn't say mine. When this would happen, it would make me think of this quote that I'm sure I’ve used before.
"You can choose your sin, but you can't choose the consequence of your sin.”
When people did not learn their lines, for whatever reason, it affected all the rest of us – whether they wanted it to or not. When we sin, it affects not only us but the people around us as well. If you look to Adam and Eve, they didn't know that their sin would affect all of the mankind for the rest of time. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says: “Revelation gives us the certainty of faith that the whole of human history is marked by the original fault freely committed by our first parents.” A sin is a selfish act. Sin hurts or can even separate us from our relationship with God and each other. “Sin is the failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods. It wounds the nature of man and injures human solidarity.”
Sin wounds the nature of man and injures human solidarity. All baptized persons are united with Christ. So, we sin, and it hurts everyone. You may not want this to happen or even know it is going to, but it does. You can choose your sin, but can’t choose the consequence of your sin. I think a lot of people think that their actions don't affect other people, and that’s not true. Like the play, if I do not know my lines it is going to affect everyone else. And if I choose to sin it affects other people as well. That is why we have confession!
God loves us just the way we are! Yes, he does... But he loves us so much that he doesn't want us to remain just the way we are. He is constantly calling forth the good, the light, and the truth he sees in us to conquer the evil, the darkness, and the shame that is also there. That's why we need to go to confession.
Just a few of my thoughts
Go with God.
