Cornucopia

The days are marching toward Advent, a progression I am eagerly awaiting that I might see the mysteries of the season through the new set of glasses that have been shared with me. Cornucopia is one of the words we use during the Thanksgiving season and it word I would use to describe the bounty of the reading of this passage from St. Ambrose:

The law of our fallen nature is at war with the law of our reason and subjects the law of reason to the law of error. What is the remedy?
It is counterintuitive to think the solution to death is to die to ourselves and to live in Christ. The fact that we are sinners drives us to doubt the gift of the resurrection. Our insecurities whisper in our ears that we should abhor death. Reason tells us that death is the end and there is nothing we can see that will prove to the unfaithful that life exists beyond death. When we listen to reason, we risk true death because reason would lead us away from the path to our personal salvation. The remedy? We did not need to read into the next paragraph of the passage to find the answer to that question, the answer is written in our hearts and souls. The remedy is the Grace of Christ who, beyond our ability to reason, gave himself up to death to save us from true death.