02/02/2025

Sometimes I am just an empty being (IknowthatIam) as I wait for the moment that I come alive and begin the thought that thanks God for this known "wonder of being". That is a "thought" that should always be my spiritual environment as I live out each day. 

Even the perfection that is Jesus' human flesh, however, in the agony of crucifixion cried out in the desolation of the inevitability of bodily death felt by his human soul, the words of the psalmist "Eli, eli lamasabach tani". 

Today Mary and Joseph adhere to the Jewish ritual that required the dedication of the first-born son to IAMIAM. Two devotees present in the Temple at that time recognise the eternal perfection of this newly born child. Mary and Joseph are simply overawed and filled with wonder at the will of Our Father which is now dominating their lives.

Jesus is true man.

"True" man, however means that he was as untouched by sin as was the first Adam/Eve at the moment the freedom of being that is mankind's was created by the will of God out of his created material that is the totality of the visible universe within which we have our being.

The baby Jesus filled the souls of Mary/Joseph with an awesome exclamation of joy that was replicated in Simeon and Anna and became an irresistible attraction to the adult apostles and disciples.

Mary, from the moment of the incarnation, and the Apostles, during their real-time experience, were brought to the sure knowledge that Jesus is also Son of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT revealed "in those times" as his supreme being who knows each one of us "person to person". 

Jesus is "True God".

That group of first century Jews were the recipients of the unimaginable Good News for each and every other human being. They have been blessed in the visible "Real-Presence" and so have we who have been blessed by Our Saviour for the sincerity of our spiritual belief although we have not seen with our physical sight.

Dear Lord, help me to lose all traces of pride and know that even the greatest of this world are also souls who need your Love and our prayers. May our rulers and their stewards remember that you trust them as much as you trust me to do your will in our lifetimes and that at the moment of our deaths it is by the record of our deeds in life that we will be known/judged, not by our presentation of self or our self-esteem. Help me to live sinlessly today. Accept these thoughts and prayers for what they are. My sincere attempt to do your will on Earth as it is done in Heaven. May I too share in the praise of Mary and all the saints as together with all the angels as we seek your pardon for all sinners on Earth and in Purgatory. Amen