Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

We are not angels.

I don't mean that we're not good people.

I mean angels are pure spirits.

They have no physical body.

But we human beings were creatures with physical bodies.

That means we form part of the physical universe, a universe that is extended out in space and time.

And the physical universe is a profoundly measurable universe.

We measure things according to size and quantity and speed and

that's how it should be. In fact God has expressed his intelligence in the physical world through numbers.

The Book of Wisdom says that God arranged everything in the world according to measure, number, and weight.

And in business, research, sports, really every field, metrics are important. They provide quantifiable data that can measure

performance and progress and outcomes and metrics are helpful in

decision-making and they hold us accountable and track progress and

help us set realistic goals and offer all kinds of help for resource allocation. I could go on and on. They're important. And it's

part of the beauty of the physical world that it can be so precisely measured.

But it's part of the beauty and mystery of the human soul

that it can't be measured.

We can't measure the value of a soul, the worth of a person by

numbers or metrics.

Our Father who art in heaven, hollow would be your name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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