18/06/2023

Today I am reminded of why it is that I am ready, happy, to start my day in this way. I am a body and soul on earth. I am a being created by God, one of the billions who fulfill God's providence during our lifetimes in his creation. God is the Trinity beyond our comprehension but, who in the joyful love of his own being, created a universe to exist in the time that is the reality in which we all live.

God loved his creation into being and especially loved the Jews whom he chose to be the receivers of his revelation . God imprinted within the beings of all his creation the code which determines the objective reality of all the parts of the world that we can know and wonder at as we learn more and more about  the physical characteristics of our objective reality.

In mankind, however, he created the greatest analogy to his own Ever-greater, image and likeness,  individual freedom. Although the knowledge of what each individual's  outcome will be is known to God it is not embedded in our being, image and likeness, as is our body's DNA. Even the Incarnation has not been enough to overcome Man's self-deceit. We have became overpowered by the wonder that is man and all his work and chosen to worship ourselves rather than the Evergreater, Father Son and Holy Spirit.

God's compassion for  sinful man is Jesus, begotten not made, self-emptied of his ever-greater power, God from God, light from light accepting all the sins of creation into his divine being and purging them when we are still sinners as St  Paul preaches so that we are able to fulfill Love with which and for which we are created.

During his time on earth, Jesus did create the Church. He gave us the structure based on his own group of friends but he also gave us a "Mother". An Immaculate Mother untouched by sin, a perfect but totally human Mother who even to this day guarantees the presence of her Son, Jesus,  even in the often marred by sinful clergy Apostolic Foundation his Church has become.

This why I am happy try to begin each day in this way.

Dear Lord, you know my many sinful failings help me to avoid them this day and help me in the work that I have to do to welcome my family. May the prayers of Mary together with all the saints be answered and let your mercy shower down as the roses seen by St Theresa whose short life was filled with an abundance of pain and of Love.