Still God did not strike me dead. We cannot ask God to bless our throttling the person who owes us a trifle, even though we sometimes feel like doing so. Well I am not sure about that either. We come to the sacrament of Holy Communion because we are sinners, and God seems to love sinners, since God made so many of us. The world is full of people who do not live up to my expectations, indeed I do not live up to my own expectations either.
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