Travelling about the lake (this time running) has been a good source of thoughts lately. On my run today it struck me how living a good life and living a Christian life are as much about transforming our desires as they are about transforming our behavior. In paraphrasing William Law, Peter Kreeft once said "If you will look into your own heart in utter honesty, you must admit that there is one and only one reason why you are not even now a saint. You do not wholly want to be." This, then, is the task. We must want to be saints. The most successful people really want to be successful. This holds true in the spiritual life, as much as in the world of business or the world of athletics.
But how do we begin to transform our desires? I suppose it starts by living as if we had them.
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