Name Your Sin

[threadwalker]

The list of the 7 deadly sins or 7 sinful thoughts changed over time. I pulled the one I'm most familiar with, which is a modern Catholic list, and inserted a few alternates from other lists in parenthesis.

gluttony
lust (extravagence/unrestrained excess)
greed
wrath
sloth (despair)
envy
pride

Most of us will admit that we have 'weaknesses' or 'areas of improvement'. I'll call a spade a spade and admit that one of the items on this list has been something I've struggled with all my life. I've certainly allowed myself to fall victim to all of them at one point or another, but one has been an overall theme.

So I'm curious if anyone else has put thought into this. I'll share mine if you'll share yours.... (mine is going to be enbedded in a comment as soon as I have a lunch break and the time to write something)

Comments

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I'm constantly beaten by sloth caused by despair, and gluttony caused by despair, and wrath caused by despair. Detecting a trend here?

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

That is interesting because "despair" was a stand-alone sin on some lists because it was felt (per my reading) that to despair was to turn to sloth which resulted in refusing to use the gifts that God has given you. Which also implies that Despair is a choice and not a state of mind. There is some interesting writing on this particular sin which goes into the psychology and what I got out of the small bit that I read was that it was understood by some that depression was something that people could suffer from AND it was not a choice. I thought that for the time/place, that was pretty forward thinking of them.