2/9/11 THERE ARE ABSOLUTES, NOT ALL IS RELATIVE

2/9/11 cblog THERE ARE ABSOLUTES, NOT ALL IS RELATIVE; st. Dominic 8a [fr young] [message to children in front]"who has a fav cartoon or candybar ..fav snack ..? What say ? Fruit salad kettle korn brownies..think abt what we like..can be very individual..but when it comes to goodness..true..from god..r what they r ...if I asked "most nutritious snack" ? Prob not brownies & candy..but "most delicious"..diffrnt..when Jesus says "defiles", means makes dirty...not things out there we choose but things inside we choose..what's fav snack, u decide..but when look at..what god is calling us..choice inside make good or bad..but what we choose..like saying what's nutritious..they chose on inside to go against god..to eat the forbidden fruit..it was the choice inside to go against god that made it evil ..make choices thru the day, sometimes don't remember..when polite making choice..when make choice to say goodbye to parents..kiss..to show respect,give love..do schoolwork, homework, being responsible.whole day ahead of us..promise u..lots of opps..choices make..inside,,choose what is good..change flavor..change desire,,change preferences..more we choose good,,more we desite the truth of god..before we know it..we know good..choose good... truth..[its not relative..there is an absoluteness when it comes to god's truth]

Gn 2:4b-9, 15-17 At the time when the LORD God made the earth and the heavensB while as yet there was no field shrub on earth and no grass of the field had sprouted for the LORD God had sent no rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the soil, but a stream was welling up out of the earth and was watering all the surface of the groundB the LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life and so man became a living being Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and he placed there the man whom he had formed. Out of the ground the LORD God made various trees grow that were delightful to look at and good for food, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil The LORD God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it. The LORD God gave man this order:“You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and evil From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die.”

h your spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the earth. R. O bless the Lord, my soul! Jesus summoned the crowd again and said to them,“Hear me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.” When he got home away from the crowd his disciples questioned him about the parable. He said to them,“Are even you likewise without understanding? Do you not realize that everything that goes into a person from outside cannot defile, since it enters not the heart but the stomach and passes out into the latrine?”(Thus he declared all foods clean.)“But what comes out of the man, that is what defiles him. From within the man, from his heart, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly. All these evils come from within and they defile.”