Why Are We Here?

In a recent note, Gil Baile offers this: "We are here to ready ourselves for our ineluctable entry into the infinite Trinitarian drama of selfless love, which is our destiny. (Long sentence warning) To aid in that preparation, we have been placed in the midst of a family and society not of our own making and choosing, and in an utterly fascinating and materially challenging world, which provides the beauty and blessings, the hardships and responsibilities, by which the latent and sin-crippled capacity for self-donating love might sufficiently develop that we experience our posthumous encounter with the Trinitarian mystery, not as a hellish annihilation of our habitual self-centeredness, but rather as the fulfillment of a deeper longing which, in this life, we habitually refract into a kaleidoscope of personal aspirations, worldly desires, and fleeting fascinations." The dominant concept here is "preparation." We are readying ourselves for something infinitely greater!