the only things you can see
is all that you lack The Gospel according to St. Mark ! What is it that keeps you from Jesus? Have you even given the question much thought? Sadly, it seems that we all just take it for granted. We assume there’s this great chasm between us and Jesus and that’s just the way things are; and so our prayer life gets weaker, our devotion more feeble, our relationship with Jesus more strained… Worse than all that, though, is that if were even to entertain such a question; the answers we would come up with would be unlikely to provide any real assistance in getting us any closer to Jesus… Perhaps we would say our attendance at church could be better, maybe we would admit our giving could be a little more faithful, or possibly we’d confess that we could spend a little more time in prayer. Now, on the other hand, maybe we’d point to some things we should be doing less of; like maybe there is some vice we know we ought to give up, possibly there’s some sin w...