It is difficult to find a good man

He felt that he was beginning to understand what time would be like without the seasons, and how heat would be without light, and how man would be without salvation. He considered that catching the train and not catching it were the same, and if something had not suddenly caught his attention, something like a cry from the heart of the encroaching darkness, he might have forgotten that there was a station he needed to go to. He had never seen himself as full of sins before, but he now saw that his true deficiency had been hidden from him so as not to cause him despair. He realized that all his sins, from the beginning of time, from when he carried the sin of Adam in his heart, until the present moment, had been forgiven, and he saw that there was no greater sin than to consider it his sin. And since the Lord loves as much as He forgives, he felt at that moment that he was ready to enter paradise! Author: Flannery O’Connor Publisher: Hayat Publications Number of pages: 263