In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. My Lord and my God,

I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me. I adore you with profound

reverence. I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My immaculate Mother St. Joseph, my father and Lord, my guardian angel,

intercede for me.

We continue our dialogue with Jesus, invoking the help of the Holy Spirit, who happens to be our spiritual

director par excellence. Being human means that we could always improve.

To give a perhaps simplistic example, the objective of a robin is to function as a robin, fabricate a nest, train her young to leave the nest,

but the training is not sitting in a classroom or watching a video,

but rather as those little chicks, robin chicks, get older, the mother kind of has a bit of

surveillance over them,

and they little by little learn to fly.

The best flyers, Robin Flyers, are not the ones who have the best instructors.

It's all programmed.

Every Robin makes a real good robin's nest.

They're all the same.

They fly the same.

They chirp the same.

They find food in the same way.

But humans are totally different. There's some vestiges of instinct,

preservation, avoiding danger, etc. But for the most part we need to be instructed and to be educated because we don't function on instinct.

We function through knowledge.

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