That would be me. I've been asking my priest for frequent flyer miles. He said he'd get back to me. (Mind you, I've also told them that things would be more efficient if they would put an "Express Lane: 10 sins or fewer" sign up by one of the confessionals, but do they listen to me?)
But here's the deal: extremely little by extremely little, I'm getting a weeny bit more "recollected." Sometimes I can see a particular sinful act sneaking up on me, and I can head it off. More often (though not nearly as often as I would like) I notice the act just as I've done it. So I can stop, shake myself, and apologize to God and to whomever I just hurt.
I figure, at this rate in about 2 or 3 thousand years I might be marginally better -- almost perceptibly better -- than I am now. Thank God it doesn't depend on me.
But what I'm saying is that I'll settle for gains of mere millimeters. Yeah it's embarrassing to have to say to God that I blew it again. Usually I try to blame it on Him, "Thus shall I always do when Thou leavest me to myself," but He is having none of that. "Dawg, I didn't leave you, YOU ignored me." "How come You're right all the time?" "Lucky for you that I am." "Yessir. Thank you."
What gets me on this thread is that many of you think we protestants are just heretics and are going to hell in a handbasket. True Christians know when they are sinning and we ask for God to forgive us just as much as Catholics do. Catholics don't have a corner on the market on God's forgiveness,nor do EO's. I am just as much Christ's as a Catholic or an EO. Mxxx