According to the standard list, the seven deadly sins are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth (laziness, inactivity). Warning: These are best found in others and seem almost extinct in oneself. But really, what if God’s greatest concern was to find these in me and not get rid of them but replace them with an entirely and permanently different character. To take the deadly sins and replace them with the seven virtues of faith, hope, prudence, justice, temperance, courage, and charity. Think this way... what is the most impure (disgusting) thing you can think of (outhouse, roadkill, etc.)? What is the purest thing that comes to mind (snow, mountain water, etc.)? God’s plan is not to make your outhouse clean, but to replace it with something altogether different. Let’s go for that.
