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To Cut Off
The Latin root of the word “decide” means “to cut off.”
The same root appears in words like homicide and suicide—-cide, to cut, to strike down.
Every decision cuts something off. When you decide this, you cut off that.
Deciding to pursue holiness means cutting away sin from our lives. But sin itself is also a decision—a cutting away from God.
We don’t usually think of it in those terms. Most people don’t sit around thinking, “How am I going to sin today?”
Instead, there’s a series of decisions leading up to the final one. The sinful one.
Think of your life as a tree. Some decisions prune branches that aren’t bearing fruit. Some cut away branches bearing bad fruit.
But sin itself strikes at the roots.
It’s not just pruning branches. It’s cutting off the very source of life.
That’s why sin is so serious. It’s not just a bad choice. It’s a decision to cut yourself off from God, from the source of everything good.
The good news? Our Lord can restore those roots. No decision to cut yourself off from God is final—not while you’re still breathing.
Repentance is the decision to be grafted back in.
Let us pray.
Lord, help us see our decisions for what they really are. When we choose sin, we’re choosing to cut ourselves off from You. Give us the grace to choose differently. To cut away sin and cling to You. Restore what we’ve damaged. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Keep fighting the good fight. Our Lady of Victory, pray for us.
