19/08/2022

If we lead ourselves out of the love of God we become the dry bones; the inaminate material that is the dust to which we will return. It is "dust", it is the foundational material created by God out of nothing but without the living breath that is our soul. We are indivisibly created beings of flesh and soul with a consciousness that draws us to God. God it is that reveals himself and with his love encourages us to search him out.

Without the guidance of God we wander in a meaningless desert. Beautiful though it may be the star-filled Cosmos is as nothing before its evergreater Creator. Jesus tells the Pharisees that loving Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the beginning of the Law, the beginning of Wisdom the beginning of righteousness that is the result of recognising and obeying the will of Our Father of whose being Jesus has emptied himself to live as a true (although without sin ) man..

Jesus takes on the sins of the world to bring us to the Father. An eternal life is what we have now. We are taught the way to the being of the eternal Father by example of Jesus/Son. The Holy Spirit is the inspiration and guardian of each of us and of the Community of Souls that our church was founded to be.

The "Church" of Jesus' days had developed into a tangle of legalisms which  were disputed by the schools of Pharisee and Sadducee and it is with the mindset of having him agree with their interpretatons that they sought out his opinions. Since the first century Jew and Christian have disputed in much more terrible ways. We must not forget that what happened on Calvary was by the will of God and that Jesus' humanity is Jewish and that our Church has inherited the mantel of God's Covenants. The symbolic rainbow belongs to Noah and not to the sinners who have misapproprated it today.

Dear Lord, let my life be moulded by your love, let the dross of my being become truly aware of your love, let me live this day without sin and let me learn the atonement that is a sincerity inspired by The Holy Spirit. The real leader of our Community of Saints is your Mother present in your Eternity but able to touch innocent souls here on earth. May all your priests today "Hear the word of the Lord" and seek to lead the dry bones along the way, truth and life .