04/02/2025

When the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews used the image of a "cloud" to refer to the mass of witnesses that had already testified to the events and preaching that still bring the Good News to us today and every other day that has passed since Jesus left his Apostles, his mother, and all the other eye-witnesses to the Event and events that confirmed to the Jews and revealed for all of us who have lived since those days that our sins can be forgiven, he had no idea that the same image would become the symbol for the human manipulation of matter that is able to store and record all the events of human history including what I am writing now. 

"The Cloud" is everywhere and is able to know everything. It can be accessed by anyone. It can become aware of every breath I take. It can deliver immeasurable real-time rewards in the currency of this world to its servants and creators.  It seems like God but its origin is totally man. All the previous self-created idols of mankind had eyes, but could not see, ears but could not hear, mouths but could not speak. Now our New Mammon can replicate all that our living brains can do and so fascinate us that it blocks us from responding to Our Father.

I have lived never becoming subsumed in the things of this world. Or so I tell myself. I could always despise the vanity that needed fancy clothes, that chose to watch the most banal of TV. I have sold off many of my clothes but still have two wardrobes to clear out and the last 4 hours of everyday I spend in front of the rubbish that I congratulate myself for choosing to watch because it is rubbish.

The course of the race that we all have to run in our lives is not laid out for us but is created by our own wills. St Paul, if it is he who wrote the Letter to the Hebrews, tells us that we ourselves can recognise the course that we have to become and remain sinless to follow.  

The true course that is to be completed demands that we freely align our wills to the revelations with which we too are guided. IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is the gentle breeze that blasts away all the clouds or products of "The Cloud" within which easily lose our way. He is the kindly light that never fades and can only be obscured by our refusal to be found.