The Godfather Speaks

I cannot find words to describe the reality I faced on this beautiful day of our Lord’s nativity. A day I’ve spent almost three decades of my life celebrating with relaxed anticipation for a new year, love permeating my soul, and even more recently, with future thoughts of embarking on a journey to start my own family with the most dedicated lady I knew in the world. Such was not the case this year. It was a day spent doing house chores, reading books, mediating on a new blog series and “ mourning ” for the perfection of those things which had become imperfect in my life and in the life of many around me. I remember dreaming of spending this day in a distant plateau enjoying the cold weather, with temperatures aspiring to those of winter in the temperate climates of the world, preparing a lovely Christmas dinner with love, incarnate in flesh and blood as the reality of a woman, strong and true, and with a smile that brightens up my day. It is one thing to have a dream yet anothe

The sheer power of wrath and its absolute ability to desolate and destroy everything that could have been created. Meliodas was the captain of the Sins and he was from the demon clan. He had this care free, yet, very empathetic behavior that showed just how much he cared about people. Yet in his darkest and most furious form his abilities could level a whole city and cause immeasurable destruction when his alter ego of wrath is triggered. There is no better time than this point in my life to write about this.  There is a kind of anger that seems beautiful. The kind that is like a fairy tale. One that compels the one who wields this power to kill for love. And then with wrath one destroys all in his path to save the happiness of the other. I find it really troubling when things get destroyed, especially when the destruction is without discrimination. In the wake of the destruction the very people we seek to fight for are full of fear and there is nothing you can do to get things

The character of the Fairy King Harlequin is the epitome of Sloth. I mean, King literally NEVER walked on his feet and 99% of the time he was half asleep on this really large pillow, floating about like his legs were made for fancy. Lol! This guy is so lazy he wouldn’t even wield his battle spear in his hands. Take away King's flying spear and his giant pillow, what you get is a really weak character in physical strength.  Isn’t it ironic that in the very event of reflecting on this sin; as a matter of fact as soon as I wrote the very first sentence of this post, I found myself as slothful as King in Nanatsu no taizai and now I have spent months away from this series. It's unfortunate I embraced my moments of weakness guys but continue we must... To the finish! Ai! Ai!! Captain!!! The sin of sloth, unlike the other deadly sins which involve committing immorality, is a sin of omitting responsibilities. The word " sloth " is a translation of the Latin term &q

Yes, the symbol of Gluttony is a pig, but what I can never reconcile is why a slim beautiful lady, with exceptional alchemy, was made the Boar’s sin of Gluttony. I just don’t get it Nanatsu no Taizai! To properly understand this sin, we must know that the Glutton is not one for just the size of what he eats, it’s for his avarice and his lust for the pleasure he derives from these things that are meant for the goodness of his body. Gluttony applies to food, alcoholic spirits and beverages. All these things should be taken in moderation (although I must argue that moderation varies with individuals). What we must be cautious about is that we are not given into these things. The dangers of this vice to the body and soul outweighs the pleasure (O, I assure you some sins are very pleasurable). When we eat our fill and drink our fill we automatically open another appetite with a very strong desire to attain its fill too. Gluttony paves way to Lust and exposes the soul to fornicat

It is easy to mistake a snake for a serpent but in their essence they are not the same. The snake is one of the very animals God created, placed in the garden of Eden and pronounced “… good ” (Genesis I). But the serpent is a mythical vile creature popularly depicted as a snake. In scriptures envy made the serpent trick man into losing his everlasting place in the family of God. It’s easy to understand why it’s called the Serpent’s sin of Envy. In other news, Diane the Giant was envious of anyone who stole the heart of the man of her dreams who she could never have. Throughout the entire series that’s the only thing she was envious about so there’s not much to draw from Nanatsu no Taizai here. Going forward, was I the envious type? Yes, I was. Did I know this? No, I never did until I started to feel like my place in paradise was being threatened. I started to spit curses like a Serpent and lose my peace to the bitterness and foul aura that this sin can cause. It’s a foul pla

Concupiscence is not lust. It’s only desire: a fleeting thought. You haven’t sinned yet, you just need to battle concupiscence and make sure it doesn’t blow up into full lusting of the senses. This vice is so sleek it can get you feeling like it’s already got you. I’m not talking about just sex here. The lust for power, lust for love, lust for fame, lust for money, lust for pleasures, lust for the beautiful and the good. This guy can feed the fox’s sin with an endless list of agendas to dwell on. Gowther, to everyone’s surprise, was an empty doll with the ability to influence and manipulate people’s desires. Ironically, he suffered an insatiable longing to understand the hollowness of human affection. Gowther the Goat’s sin of Lust was so awesome he was like layers upon layers of unending mysteries. I really can’t wait to draw more from that character’s deathly desire to understand people’s desires. I’m sure we can guess what I lusted for the most. You’re wrong it wasn’t

Ban was the man. Undead Ban, as he was popularly called in Nanatsu no Taizai, was a bandit who stole water from the fountain of life. This guy's greed made him covet a drink that would curse him with immortality, the inability to die despite being killed. This left an endless void in his soul because he could never die to be with his beloved Elaine on the other side. Damn I love cartoons fantasies so much!!! Moving forward, this evening's healing process is to pick on my Sin of Greed. "I want the money, cars and the clothes, the h**s, I suppose... I just wanna be successful". I wish he got that right about success. That song just fueled the desire to want more of the very things I had enough of. You see God is sufficient for each and every one of our souls. If he can provide for the birds that do not reap or sow, are we not much more valuable than these birds? (cf. Matt VI:26). I remember how often I kept hearing God speak in a soft strong tone through his child

Forgive my use of animals to qualify each sin. I'm a strong fan of Japanese anime and "Nanatsu no Tazai (The Seven Deadly Sins)" has this really feeble humble character who activates his strong powerful side during the day and as night falls he falls back to that weak feeble man again. His personality change is really hilarious if I must say but I won't dwell on cartoon characters any further.  “Pride comes before the fall” is a very popular statement with being Christian. I often buttress this phrase with how Lucifer the Morning star fell from grace because of his pride. I understand it in stories of the lives of very rich and famous people in the world and around us but rarely do I see it in myself until I take the fall. It so turns out that when I fall, I fall really hard; so hard it cripples so many aspects of my life and affects the life of those around me. But for some reason I have always found the grace to get back up, unknowingly to me that every time