29/01/2024

King David is another character in the Old Testament in whom we can recognise  the same humanity that we are each now experiencing. He loves God and sings psalms of praise and dances before the Ark not because he is a hypocrite but because he is taken out of himself by the joy that our Love of God can bring into our hearts. He is also a sinner.

Everything that we do in this world will pass away. That is the nature of our "being". We know ourselves as a fact. The inner questions that can trouble us are to be partially answered at death but the full answer will only come when Jesus returns to complete the perfect creation that has been marred by humanity.

Other people are also facts. There are many of us who are born with bodily defects. The body that we know as a fact is shaped by our DNA. The  revolt against God that began in Eden has taken many forms over the centuries. Every soul ever created by Father, Son and Holy Spirit  has been faced with difficulties that have arisen from, created by the response of each individual's "Yes" or "No" to his/her place in the Providence of God.

We first become aware of "life" and of other people as our embryonic form develops to become the baby who can still obtain nourishment from its mother's body via her breast. This is true for most of us, but what about the demoniac who is host to "Legion"? What about those whose bodies do not function as they should? "The man born blind"?

Those whose genitals are indeterminate really can ask for their bodily defects to be righted but have to accept that their confusion about gender cannot become their excuse for sin. Our Father in Heaven does not punish the blameless. His Cross brings his Mercy to multitudes but we must not deny him. We have to say "Yes" to whatever God provides in this life to be able to access the Love that pours from the side opened by the lance.

Dear Lord, you know that my sorrow for those who are tortured by their beings and place in your Providence is an honest question not a stupid attempt to catch you out.You know that my faith is the faith of childhood Sunday School. I still strive to be sinless but can remember that the "innocent child" that wanted to be holy contained a devious sinful soul. I have changed but you know more than I how I still fall short. May Mary who, although sinless herself and with the perfect, for a human, sight of God, has felt the pangs of all the mothers of Syria, Palestine Israel Gaza and Yemen and still knows the pain of clasping the corpse of the Incarnate Son to the bosom that had fed Him, plead that the Grace won on Calvary force its way past all the barriers which we erect to protect our pride so that we can see the Wonder of your being as did your Prophets, Kings, Apostles and mere children.