11/01/2025

In the eyes of God there are no "bit-parts" to be played in creation by anonymous bit-players. I am sure that my life is known by "Our Father" as completely as he knows those of everyone who has ever existed.

The vastness of FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT cannot be comprehended but can be known by anyone who lets his soul be guided by grace into the faith shown by "He must increase but I must diminish".

John the Baptist is the "Faithful Chosen People" who not only listens to the "Word" but follows the "Law" in his heart and gives his whole being to IAMIAM even to his martyrdom at the hands of the then "rich and famous" and now the "great" of written history.

There are very many others who were in the crowd that had followed Jesus and his disciples to "Aenon near Salim" a place with more than one source of water, a spring after which it is named, where Jesus and John were both baptizing.

None of the Evangelists record Jesus personally baptizing any individual.

The outward signs of God's mercy are all preserved in this world by the Institutions that have grown out of "Thou art Peter and on this rock I will build my Church." There are many "great figures of history" who are the Saints whose example we try to follow. 

There are many more of us who are "the little children", the "beloved" to whom St John is writing who also can rest in the mercy of the Lord for we are all invited to be baptized in the Grace that is the blood poured out for all of us on Calvary.

Dear Lord, Help me to stay true to the faith that sometimes seems to fill my being but also gets lost in the things of this world which can push your Love to the back of my mind. Help us all who are trying to respond to your call as Institutional Church founded on St Peter or New Holy Family as founded by your words from the cross spoken to Mary and St John to "declutter" ourselves of the dross of materialism and become the being that is the fulfilment of your Love for each of us. Let me too decrease  as he increases, let myself become "anonymous" lost in the flood of your Love. Amen