If there’s one thing that drives me bonkers (and there are actually about 53,429 things and counting), it’s when someone assumes that his own talent, hobby, or vocation is a moral issue for everyone else. For instance, the women who loves decorating and cleaning and arranging is convinced that every wife and mother has a moral duty to put the beauty of her home over all other pursuits. Or the guy who has conquered sloth and gluttony through serial triathalons is sure that the sedentary college professor is sinning because he doesn’t work out much.
Not so, hot shots. God may be calling you to work out your salvation through one particular area of interest, but that doesn’t mean He’s calling everyone to the same thing. Everyone has a vocation, a skill to develop for the service of God — but these skills vary as much as, of course, people do themselves.
Well, you can judge for yourself if I’m guilty of the same hobby-as-moral-imperative fallacy here when I say that it’s very important for Catholics to learn how to write.
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