13/02/2024

I am always making mistakes.Yesterday I was completely wrong about when and where James wrote his letter. It was not after the destruction of the Temple but before and was written in Jerusalem. 

I know that I am always tempted to feel pride at my outputs on this computer but also know that I am trying to avoid exactly that and pray that my heart and mind is open to God and can receive the loving guidance that I have ignored for most of my life.

The Pharisees are infamous for their pride. Herod is infamous for the arrogance with which he ignored God and the cruelty which slaughtered the innocents and executed John The Baptist.

Jesus is more than famous for the example he is of the total meaning of being human in this World. He is gentle and lowly of heart and is the one source of the peace that is the true happiness we can find in this world only by knowing that Our Father and His is the one source of all that is good .

Jesus is also completely human even to the extent of being short with his mother and immediate family when they seek to interrupt his preaching, and today he is bothered by the way his closest disciples don't seem to have "got it". He chides them with  Isaiah "Have you eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear?" for their lack of understanding of the words they have heard and the miracles they have seen.

Jesus worldly mission was completed many years ago but the loving truth of his acceptance of the sacrifice he was to make is still with us. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life and is always ready to accept the souls who return his love and avoid the self-congratulatory piety of Pharisees and the self-centred arrogance of power of Herod.

Dear Lord, let me live today with peace in my being. Let me be always ready for your call. May Mary and all the Saints be, with the angels the prayer, that knows you and wordlessly becomes the part of you that is the love of Father, Son and Holy Spirit but does this as one person to another. Let us all do your will now.