18/02/2026

Ash Wednesday.

Our Father has never left us alone in the reality of material creation in which his will to love and also have completely free creatures choose to aspire to knowing, loving and serving the non-material reality that he reveals himself to be, can flourish.

We all should know that we are not God. Each bodily human life will end. The wonders that we have achieved  in our World have not been created out of nothing. Each generation is born into an already existing world. Each human idea and insight is based on what was previously known by another human being.

Even though our first parents misused the loving freedom that was their created being, i.e. "image and likeness", and became the first link of the chain of sin, to which I know that I have also contributed, and which now fills the world, the Love that is Our Father did not "cancel"  humanity but offers to each succeeding generation and individual the freedom to aspire to the holiness that the Bible reveals to be the will of God.

The first guide book to holiness is the Old Testament. IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT revealed himself as the one True God to the Jews and supported their righteous efforts to become an example to the nations. Mankind including the Jews, however, followed the way of Adam and continued to misuse the freedom that had been created to choose the ways of God.

The Eternal Being that is God is timeless and is totally aware of everything. I look back to 2000 years ago and become aware that an "Angel of the Lord appeared unto Mary and she conceived by the Holy Ghost". During our lifetimes, as we try to search for God's will our freedom is limited by time and thus understand the Eternal INCARNATION to be a reset of Creation, a change in God's plan and forget "In the Beginning was the Word."

I know that I am living in a world that OURFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT knows rejects him. The immensity of his Love, however, is so great that he reaches out from eternity to each one of us and with Love assures us that total forgiveness can be ours when we make the effort to access the timeless Mercy poured out in bitter pain by Jesus, True God and True man when Eternity was present in time on Calvary.

Dear Lord, help me to truly atone for my sins and let this Lent become a time of renewal for the whole world and for my loved ones.