15/02/23

The people who first began to fill the region we now know as the Middle East were close to God and were guided by him. They did not have the wealth of sources that we have when it comes to explaining the natural events which they experienced. They were self-centred and  interpreted their worldly experiences through their own awareness of them. 

They were, however, given a consciousness of God and their interpretation of spiritual awareness projected onto God their own humanity, their acceptance or rejection of other humans, love or hate, strength and power. Thus the first part of the story recorded on the scrolls has God as a super-human, walking with Adam in the garden. 

The Old Testament contains the record of God's self-revelation and of man's response. God has a total awareness of everything that has happened, is now and of all the possibilities that could be or will happen, for in this world each individual is known to him. Each individual is good and is loved into being. But each individual is also free now and thus there is an incalculable number of possible futures and pasts that might have been, known only to God. 

The Father, Son and Holy Spirit has through the Incarnation, teaching life, death and Resurrection completed the education of Mankind. God has made known, Hiself, the Trinity that is His being and the Love that limits our Freedom. He has founded his Church and promised to be with her to the end of time.

What are we doing in response?

Dear Lord, may I be open to receive the Grace that you lavish upon mankind and by prayer seek to do your will in everything that I am. May Mary the only sinless human being since Adam and Eve before the fall continue to plead for sinful humanity that we might reverse our sins by growing in our love for you. May the Holy Souls who now totally aware only of you and of their sins receive the grace that previously they rejected.