Virtue
10th November 2015
Sarah Hoyt has some points to ponder.
Real virtue is hard because most of it is internal. It’s refraining from doing the things that the natural creature wants to do. It’s doing things you really don’t want to do. It’s staying up an hour later to finish that overdue project, it’s getting up in the night because your spouse/kid is throwing up in the bathroom, it’s doing dishes before bed so your spouse doesn’t need to worry about them, it’s making a cup of hot cocoa for your kid when it’s snowy out and you know he/she is going to come trudging through the door, wet and cold.
Real virtue is putting what you ought to do higher in priority than what you want to do, and we see far too little of that these days. But that does not relieve us of the obligation to try.