Dear Billy:

You are not a saint. You are only a man.

I suppose if you were a candidate for the Sainthood Position, then your past will be examined for imperfections and it will be required, for the position of saint, that there will be no imperfections and that the Ideal Self will be the same as the Actual Self. I never had any interaction that I know about with a saint, never met one anywhere. Do they exist… I can hardly imagine…

But since you are not a candidate for the saint position (except in your own mind, unfortunately)- you are allowed your imperfections. And if you don’t believe a stranger on the internet, ask … Jesus, isn’t it the … reason he died on the cross, (assuming you are a believing Catholic), so that you will be saved because… you can’t help being imperfect.

Isn’t it that Adam and Eve were perfect and then committed the original sin that caused every single person ever since to be born with sin, imperfect… and only through Jesus anyone at all can reach heaven because no one is without sin?

Which brings me back to sainthood… by this definition, the original sin, how can anyone be a saint (there must be a Catholic explanation to this…)

Anyway, does any of this mean something to you? I wrote this with a bit of a humorous slant, but I mean every word of what I wrote here.

Hoping to read your next post soon enough.

anita