20/03/2025

Thursday Second week of Lent

Each day I have to bring myself into the practice of knowing that I am in the presence of the Lord. I have to know that I can and should respond to IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT's awareness of me. I have been created to do this.

Many people would tell me that I am "kidding myself" when I make myself respond to the revelations made in the Old and New Testaments. My faith is in God who has created each one of us to use our freedom to come to the blessed joy that he knows in the perfection of his own being.

I seem to have been driven out of the community of the People of God. I am not the only one. In the very first years of the Church there were more than one of the converts who could not accept the sharing of personal wealth that was the commonwealth led by James in Jerusalem.

I am "Alone but Known" and trying to become a tree planted by the living water that sprang, mingled with blood, from the side of Our Saviour. I can never forget my sins. I always know that my heart is a deceitful thing. It can always excuse my faults so I have always to pray to Our Father remembering that he knows all my thoughts and deeds.

Dear Lord, help me to stand with the three Marys and John at the foot of your cross knowing that the horror you are undergoing is the river of true life that washes away the sins of the world, my sins. It is truly the river of life seen by Ezekiel to be flowing from the temple and is there to be drunk from for all who recognise that life without worship of you leads into the "parched places of the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land" to which there is no end. Amen