As Christians search after meaning and fulfillment, basic truths of the faith rise to the fore: the truth of who we are and who we are called to be, the fallenness of the human race, our relation to the rest of the created order, and the promise held out to those who accept Christ as their savior.
Through a simple allegory, a challenge is presented: "Can it be that you have entirely forgotten who you are?"
Each of us strives after happiness in all that we do; however, it seems that no one has ever found complete happiness, and the happiness we seek seems to exist outside of this world.
The human person has been created in the image and likeness of God, possessing a normative nature and acutely aware that we have not yet reached our final form.
We are often surprised by our own failings. God, who knows our fallenness, is not: he loves us not because we are good, but in order to make us good.
Do we see ourselves as creatures living in a world we did not create or as the lords of the world? The answer to that question will dictate much of how we order our lives.
We live in an enchanted world, charged by God's grandeur. In order to reclaim a sense of wonder, we need to see the ordinary as extraordinary, grateful for the gift of existence itself.
Founded upon a rejection of the notion that there is a cosmic order to the universe, the movement for sexual liberation appeals to such an order in its calls for 'justice' and 'dignity.'