04/07/2022

We are all called to a personal relationship with God. We must accept him as Our Father. Jesus teaches us to pray in this way. Amos has God in a relationship with Israel that is described in nuptial imagery. Jesus uses the affectionate "Dad/Abba" to talk with the creator of all the world especially when he is pressured by the restrictions to his freedom that he has accepted out of Love for mankind.

The direct line between Father Son is the Holy Spirit, who is himself pure Love, becomes entangled when we get our questioning human freedom involved. We are puny in truth but  become more and more prideful as we become part of the empty time-filling that is our worldliness. Satellites spin around our globe carrying our messages. Poweful industrial complexes build machines our forebearers couldn't have imagined. It is hard for us to envisage anything more powerful that the humanity that can manipulate the matter of this world in such ways.

We all have to face death one day and then will find out how puny we really are. We will then see with our dying eyes what we should have seen while living. There is nothing greater than the Love of God and he always knows us as we reach out in complete self-effacing humility to touch the hem of his garment. Faith is the only answer to God's Love and it is Faith that will restore us to the true Humanity that he created us to be.

Dear Lord help me to come to you with faith seeking out for the love and mercy that is your being to help me on the right path. Your mother Mary is the perfection of creation may she continue to lead the prayers of eternity in seeking help for the lost souls still living and the Holy Souls awaiting in penitence. your ultimate mercy.