I will do my best to resist the urge to simply pass along links to stories that I stumble upon from time to time.  I could do this all day long — pass along stories.  I suppose it is something of an occupational hazard.  That being said, I strongly recommend you take a moment and read John Zmirak’s recent article.  Zmirak is one of the best writers out there today and virtually everything I’ve read of his is fantastic.

A sample of his writing:

As we scramble up from the fallenness we’re born in, weighed down by all the neuroses, habits, and rationalizations we’ve picked up through the years, blown hither and thither by the windbags who dominate our culture, the ground we walk is strewn with booby-traps. As we try to ascend from ordinary worldliness, our efforts do not go unnoticed. The cold Spirit who threw away Beatitude watches us like a scientist goading rats toward electric shocks. He’s driven to persecute us by a galling, eternal Envy of the happiness we were promised, which he perfectly remembers, craves, and hates. While we were still wallowing down in the mires of sensuality or resentment, he could snicker and turn his back. But as we clamber to the middle heights on the way to true friendship with Christ, we begin to attract his attention. Our cases cease to be cold, and our files are sucked through the vast, pneumatic ducts of hell to the desks of more talented tempters. That’s when the real “fun” begins.

Most of the articles I’ve read can be found at InsideCatholic.com

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