Peace be to you.

Have you ever been guilty of speeding?

If you were, when you came into the garage after exceeding the speed limit, did you ever

bend your head over the steering wheel and weep? Did you ever shoot game out of season?

Did it ever cause your great remorse? It is very obvious that here there is a breaking of the law,

and there is not just exactly the same kind of feeling that follows the breaking

of the law as there is that follows the wounding of someone that we love.

We have been insisting all along that the standard and norm of our morality is not just a law, but a person, not

something that is prohibited, but rather charity and love. That is why some people will feel

greater sorrow for sin than others.

It all depends upon how much we love.

Suppose you cannot sing.

Suppose you could not carry a key on a ring. And you were put into a choir where everyone else could sing.

You hit a false note. The director of the choir would look at you with a very sour face.

All the other singers would turn toward you and give you a dirty look.

Why is it that they act that particular way to you?

It is because they feel that discord much more than you do.

You were not musical enough to appreciate it, but they are.

So too there are some people who do not appreciate the love and the mercy of God.

And therefore they are not so much inclined to feel a regret

as those who have just a vague concept of deity.

I do not mean to say that they are without blame, just as there was a

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