Truth 

   “No one in the world can change the Truth.  What we can and should do is to seek truth and serve it when we have found it.” (St. Maximillian Kolbe) 

   There’s a scene in the movie “A Few Good Men” that is useful here.  Jack Nicholson is on the witness stand and Tom Cruise is berating him, demanding that he tell the truth.  Nicholson replied, “You can’t handle the truth!”  One of the best scenes in the movie.

   Many people can’t handle the truth, they want to define or redefine it to suit their wants and desires.  If it’s inconvenient, change it; if it doesn’t allow what they want, just create a new truth to replace the old.  However, truth cannot be changed, what was true a thousand years ago is true today and will remain true throughout eternity.

   Truth is God, and God cannot be changed, His truth is eternal.  It doesn’t matter what society says or what we wish were true, only what is true matters.  The truth is that God loves each of us as His children and wants us to love Him.  The truth is we betray His love virtually every day.  The truth is He will forgive us our failures as often as we come to Him in sorrow and repentance, seeking His mercy.

   The truth is also that He will not force us to follow His ways.  I hear people say they don’t believe in God because they can’t believe in a God who would send people to hell.  In truth, God sends no one to hell.  If we spend eternity in hell it is because of the choices we've made

   We each make choices in our life and those choices are what will decide the next life for us.  We can choose God, or we can choose eternity without Him.  It really is that simple.  But then truth is rarely difficult if one choses to open their heart and listen. 

You are Truth.

Our place is to believe and serve the Truth.

If I can do this.

You will lead me to eternal life. 

Amen