Desire, Disorder, and the Call to Spiritual Maturity

✠Jerome explains how desire, though made for God, became disordered after the Fall. The issue isn’t desire itself, but our will grasping selfishly at wealth, pleasure, or recognition. Spiritual maturity comes through discipline, virtue, and reordering the heart toward God. Saints teach us not to deny desire, but to elevate it. In doing so, we gain freedom, peace, and the capacity for true love, service, and holiness.