To progress into level three and four of happiness, we will need to change our attitudes on the purpose of our life, our view of others, our view of ourselves, and our view of freedom.
Man is the only one of God’s creatures made in His image and likeness, giving him free will and the capacity to love.
Our ultimate happiness, which is found in God alone, is intimately bound up with our freedom. God has created us in His image and likeness, with the power to freely choose Him or freely reject Him. True freedom is the ability to choose the good, which is a moral decision.
The action of love itself, our highest calling as children of God redeemed by Christ, is freely choosing the good of another. Love—by its very definition—cannot be forced.
This month’s Teaching the Faith with Current Events focuses on how the proper ordering of our faculties—our intellect first, then our will, and lastly, our feelings—is needed for reasonable discussion to take place.
