Originally published at The Catholic Thing
The author had his cell phone snatched on a London Street by a marauding thief on a motorbike. The first thoughts: the police and revenge. But neither is helpful. There comes a moment in life when the danger to one’s property is outweighed by the danger to one’s soul. The natural desire for revenge is of more consequence than losing a valuable phone and its contents. The difficulty with being a believer is that, as GK Chesterton reminds us, “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.”
