Should. Like. Freedom.

“How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should,” wrote Karl Rahner. “How true it is that not every ‘should’ is a compulsion, and not every ‘like’ is a high morality and true freedom.”

“Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself,” advises Philippians 2:5.

“I am the Vine, you are the branches,” said Christ Jesus in John 15:5-8. “When you’re joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can’t produce a thing. Anyone who separates from me is deadwood, gathered up and thrown on the bonfire. But if you make yourselves at home with me and my words are at home in you, you can be sure that whatever you ask will be listened to and acted upon. This is how my Father shows who he is—when you produce grapes, when you mature as my disciples.”