11/02/2023

I have to read the Genesis account of the disobedience of Adam and Eve aware of the way I too can sin but also find excuses for myself. God is telling us by this Holy Spirit inspired text that we have to fight for our lives on Earth. I am sorely tempted to view the story as nonsense and am loth to try to wrangle my way round the simplicity of the black and white, good or evil. Why does God want us to go through life when in his own perfection he has no need of anything that I could give?

We have to accept, however, what we know as the only reality of which we are part. Myself and the millions of other things and animals are in this place in this time, in this life. The whole thing is difficult enough to make sense of without the further result of the being that is "thought" which cannot be turned into the particles of Quantum theory but which is present wherever there is a human being.

When I accept that "I am" and with Descartes become "thought" my questions just multiply for we are more than "thought"; I have a body that needs feeding, clothing and is programmed to reproduce. I can  accept by an act of faith/will, that the Bible texts of thousands of years ago reveal that we are not the be all and end all of this Universe. The whole wonder of the star-filled night sky, the beauty and power of oceans, the variety of life both the Leviathan and the almost invisible viruses are the creations of the Love of Father Son and Holy Spirit and I am one individual atom of mankind created to do the will of the Father by responding obediently to his revelation of himself and thus can accept his grace  to join him in the never ending perfection that is his will for all of us.

Atomic particles spin around but, although we cannot see them they are still material being. I am a hybrid being of physical matter, here we can find sub-atomic particles, and soul that is the image and likeness of our Creator. It is my soul that has to accept the grace to know, love and do the will of our Father who art in heaven. I have to respect my body for it too is God's creation but never forget that it is dust composed of sub-atomic particles which will return whence it came.

Dear Lord let me retain your grace to continue to use my freedom to chose to do your will for me by resisting the temptations that surround me. You know that the "serpent", the devil, Satan is a powerful and insidious enemy of your Love. May Mary whose "Yes" to you opened the way back to you for all humanity continue to support all sinners both on Earth and in purgatory and plead for comfort for our brothers and sisters suffering in the places known to so many of the earliest Christians who are now in Heaven.