When we'd just be chasing after the wind

This happens when with all the excitement we put into our earthly activities, we fail to reach the ultimate end proper to us, and that is, to be with God, to do everything to show our love for him, and to give him glory.

- Roy Cimagala

In other words, when we fail to follow what Christ once said: "Do not work for food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life." (Jn 6,27) We cannot deny that we are notorious for making ourselves, instead of God, as the goal of our whole life.

We are prone to fall into self-indulgence, against which we should declare an unrelenting war. Yes, this has always been a problem to us, and these days it is much more so.

With the many new wonderful things that can instantly give us convenience, comfort, pleasure, and satisfaction, many of us are trapped into the very sticky web of distractions, obsessions, addictions and the many other forms of self-indulgence that feed on our weaknesses, like lust, pride, conceit, gluttony, unhinged curiosities, envy, etc., etc.