The tide of reality

Some people like to pretend that they make their own realities: that they are the god of their own solipsistic universe.

In their self-centered universe, there is no God that can tell them what to do. They are like children who have decided they do not have to listen to their parent.

Inescapably, real reality always reasserts itself. Objective reality intrudes upon even the most elaborate subjectivist: sometimes like a speeding truck that mows down the daydreaming jaywalker.

Today's first reading (Isaiah 48:17-19) reminds us that God's law is not the arbitrary rule of a capricious parent: God’s word is the word of "the love that moves the sun and the other stars" (as Dante put it).

I, the LORD, your God,
teach you what is for your good,
and lead you on the way you should go.

If you would hearken to my commandments,
your prosperity would be like a river,
and your vindication like the waves of the sea...

We live in the real world. We cannot hide forever in manmade or self-made delusion.

We need to come to grips with this real world and take advantage of the insights of the Creator, the Lord of heaven and earth, who created us and redeemed us in love through his Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.