18/12/2023

None of us choose the time and place of our births. We all become sentient beings in the Providence of God. If we are blest we first know ourselves as children of parents from whom we receive love. 

Unfortunately it is from this moment that our innocence is afflicted by the will of other humans who are also God's creation but have been moulded by their own choices into the other beings that the newborn will face as he/she grows.

 We are brought up in the place where we are born and come to know ourselves as belonging to a specific race or nation and whose standards and norms of life we accept or refuse as our own.

I did not choose to be alive in front of this screen and keyboard today aware that I am trying to begin this day, as always, in the presence of God. The world is full of billions of beings who are all children of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and with a human freedom that has to be guided by the Love that is the Will of God.

The totally beyond human ability to understand, the complexity that is One, Father Son and Holy Spirit revealed himself first to the ancestors of those who have brought total destruction to the other human beings that have had their land stolen from them and both sides are still killing as I type this.

There is no State or Institution in our World that confines itself to searching for and implementing the Will of God. Within the Bible we can find the record of how the Chosen People acted in the Providence of IAMIAM and how often they brought misery to themselves and others.  The Church founded by Jesus very soon became an Institution that was definitely of this world and is still even more so today.

Jesus is the one man who chose for himself time and place of birth. In those days a great empire was beginning to flourish. Jesus is true man and so accepted just as we do his place in God's Providence, he the Creator of the Universe accepted the rule of Caesar and told us to do the same. Mary had already accepted God's will for her. Joseph at first distraught was able to align his will to the message from God. 

Jesus who could have been born in earthly glory chose to become like all of us the totally dependent infant "mewling and puking in his nurse's arms." but even more so than us for he chose the poverty of an animal shelter as the first place to hear the sound of his lungs, the voice of God.

Dear Lord, your message of love was lived in private by the Holy Family that lived unknown for thirty years in Nazareth. Many of us today are living in the Grace and Mercy that Jesus brought to us. We are living in the Kingdom you have revealed by the Resurrection as the only Providence unmodifiable by human will and know that Mary and Joseph are all present with us and you as head in the Mystical Body, unseen by human eye that is the true Church, your Kingdom that is not of this world. May these prayers open my being to your Mercy and may my soul and the souls of the all in this world and in Purgatory be forgiven by your Love. AMEN!