More than ever there is a choice to be made - either we are living for God or we will remain enslaved to a cruel world. We are called by Jesus to walk the narrow road, to deny the Self, to take up the Cross and to love the Lord above all. The road of the Lord leads to life. He is after all the Way. There is no other way to life. Not the way of money. Not the way of status or power. It is the way of the cross. We live in a time of darkness, hate, death, falseness, poverty, famine and plague. Across the world, there is evidence of war, conflict, murder, violence and the abuse of people. There are many reasons for such upheaval, yet the Lord reminds us that darkness only exists when light does not shine. Therefore, darkness is the absence of light. Hate is the absence of love. Cold comes when warmth is absent. Death reigns where there is no life. Darkness, death, coldness and hate cannot exist when the better half exists. For when light shines there is no place for darkness. Darkness will always flee when the light comes, just as when the sun rises in the morning. When love is present there is no room for hate and anger. The Church is on the threshing floor, for there is a separation between the light and the dark, the truth and the lie, and the holy and the unholy. We need to choose now to be the light, to love and God's will above all else.