"You are heading toward a choice between money and happiness." The world is full of such temptations, and regardless of where we might be in our faith journey, we can become easily distracted by them. Exercising virtue—living out the tenets of our faith—is made all the more difficult by such distractions, and encourages us to become discontented with the state of our lives. Perhaps we want more than we have, or wish were someone else. How have we compromised our characters because of greed or envy? How do we fail to plan for the future or learn from the past if we only ever live on impulse in the present? How can we live as Christ if we ignore other people and turn inward, busy ourselves with our own internal life? We have so much to gain when we find contentment in what gifts God has granted us, when we recall Christ's promise of the eternal, when our lives align with God's will—when we live as Christ. A virtuous life.
