25/11/2025

Tuesday Week 34 Ordinary Time

Today I am still troubled. 

I am, however, not giving up on the the daily effort that is required to bring all the elements that constitute the "Idol" Daniel revealed as the dream of Nebuchadnezzar that I make of and for myself out of the self-centred delusion that is the life of this world, into the never-ending reality of the life of Christ, living in me.

My body, on feet of Babylonian reinforced concrete, iron and clay, is rapidly crumbling but my personal soul, "image and likeness" of Our Father is still striving for the "Heaven" that once truly accepted is the never changing perfection of "seeing IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT" as he truly is.

"Today I am still troubled" but how troubled must those have been those who stood with Jesus and heard his very words spoken in today's Gospel. Many of them were to be part of the Crucifixion mob and then  overcome by the Resurrection. They were to witness the complete destruction of their Temple and at the same time continued to live personal ordinary lives amidst "wars and tumults", "famines and pestilences".

That first generation of Christians who had known the friends of the Lord became his foundation on the Rock, the solid rock that was the very real human Peter, the early Church but they remained in the purity of heart that can see God for only a short time.

It is no wonder that my "my soul is still troubled" for I am one of yet another generation who have not truly fulfilled the will of God during our time on earth even though we have not only been called and shown how to become the Kingdom that is not of this world, but have also heard the dying Jesus' assurance of our place in his personal New Holy Family, His Mystical Body, the Church of Love.

Will we on earth, who still have Faith, see the Son of Man again in the land of the living? Maranatha Lord. Come Lord, Jesus come for we still are in as desperate need of YOU as we ever were. Amen