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title: Heaven on Earth
description: Heaven on earth. What does that mean to us? Does it have to do with some sort of freedom?
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# Heaven on Earth

Apr 29, 2014 1:30:12 PM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest)

Heaven on earth. What does that mean to us? Does it have to do with some sort of freedom?

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Freedom is often confused with the license to do whatever a person wants to do. What many of us want to do is to serve ourselves.

We want to get angry and hold grudges when we feel like it. We want to take the biggest piece of everything. We don’t won’t get off the couch when we need to.

We think we’re so important that the world revolves around us, and only us.

We want sex whenever, and wherever, and with whomever, we want to have it with. We lie about others, and put them down when they get in our way. We drink too much, eat too much, drug ourselves, or take medications without moderation.

And what does the above behavior encapsulate? The Seven Deadly Sins. Yes, sins: Wrath, Greed, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy, and Gluttony.

And none of that behavior brings us freedom. Often, it brings us misery instead. In fact, each sin comes accessorized with a particular kind of prison.

But…

“Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”  
 ― John Paul II

We can catch Heaven on Earth, and do–every time we make moral choices and not immoral ones. Probably all of us remember when someone we respected or loved said to us, “Do the right thing.”

An awful lot is contained in those words.

They may be hard to live up to. We may not want to hear them. But when we “do the right thing” we are, ourselves, bringing a little of Heaven to Earth.

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*Copyright 2014, Kaye Hinckley*

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