26/09/2022

We do not know much about Angels. We have assumed from the few mentions of them in the revelations of them in both Testaments that they are spiritual beings created by God and bearing witness to him in a spirtual creation that exists about God as "Thrones and Dominions". From these the tempter fell. Satan is his given name and in the Book of Job it is Satan who attacks God in his very being as he had done with his temptation of Adam and Eve.

We have so much to consider when setting out to live our lives according to the self-revealed guidance of God. The basis of everything in my being and life is that I am not the only being. I am one of billions of others equally known to God who is the Evergreater Father Son and Holy Spirit known by Love which creates our World. Words can go only so far in explaining our human situation. Sometimes they can go too far and in trying to match my brain to the recorded thoughts of intelligences far greater than mine I am feeding my own ego when I do understand and, more usually,  wasting a lot of time when I don't.

In Jesus days on earth he lived a completely human life. He knew all the conflicts that fill our beings. He needed human food; he ate and drank and got rid of the waste in a purely human animal way. He got footsore and wrapped his face to avoid the dust of the deserts. He rubbed the dust from his eyes and he knew that all his disciples both then and now have to face up to the great temptation of putting ourselves before not only God but also our neighbour. We have been taught nothing greater than when Jesus tells us to call our Father and his "Dad" for then we are true to our being, children; the brothers and sisters all created to know love and serve in this world in preparation  for the Eternity in which we will  completely know God as he knows us.

Dear Lord help me this day to be true to your teaching and never forget that the sacrificial death you accepted in atonement for my sins was as real as my own will be but far worse for you emptied youself in an Evergreater humility which can only fill us with awe for human thoughts and words cannot approach the enormity of your Saving Act. May the Saints led by Mary continue to share the grace that they now have in super abundance with your struggling people on Earth especially with your clergy in the Church they lead and care for.