December 28

Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor, said: “Life is what our thoughts make it.” Saint Paul said substantially the same thing: “. . . be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind . . .” (Romans 12:2). This is the great secret that Christianity has given people across the centuries, changing them from desultory to vital, from dead to alive, from weak to strong, from dull to alert. “I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me" (Galatians 2:20).