05/09/2025

Friday week 22 Ordinary Time

I am always aware that I have to be prepared for the moment that I die. 

The total purpose of these my thoughts and prayers recorded  here on blogger are a result of the belief that "this world" where I now am is not my permanent home and that all of the humanity of which I am one tiny speck also has to accept that for each speck "time will run its course".

Over the last couple of years I have been trying to be a Christian, a body, mind and soul that has decided to believe wholeheartedly the words and teachings contained in the Old and New Testaments and to conform my behaviour to the "holiness" that is the Spiritual being of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and lived to perfection only by Jesus and his mother as recorded in the Gospels.

I am awake for about 20 hours each day. I rarely need more than 5 hours to keep myself alive but spend most of the remaining 15 hours in mindless lethargy with the TV.

And yet, I am not fooling myself when I claim to be "always aware that I have to be prepared for the moment that I die".

I am sure that I was not prepared for the moment that I was born. Only our mothers know the gestation and pain that is giving birth to the babies that first fill them with love and then ???

God in his providence chose that each of us should be born into this world at the moment each one of us was. At our births we are all free beings within the worldly, families, tribes, religions, races, nations living in our own times amongst our own generation but we all have to become aware that our freedom means that we can choose how to grow and live throughout our lifetimes.

St Peter, Andrew, James and John  were born into the families of fishermen in Galilee of the Nations. They were not predestined to become "fishers of men". King Charles is King of England not because he has either a divine right or was chosen by God but because he did not refuse the throne of his mother. Only "Our Lady" seems to have been prechosen into an earthly role for she was conceived without stain of sin and yet it is taught that she could have refused her place in Salvation for God respects his gifts to his pinnacle of creation. There is no human freedom that is an illusion.

Dear Lord, help me to pray and follow your footsteps onward to my personal final moment which only by accepting your grace can I make acceptable to you. Amen