06/02/2026

There are some of us who are now living completely in this world without a giving a thought to Our Father except in an abbreviated exclamation which is of course not a thought or a prayer.

I have never felt really comfortable in my life except when looking after my children and grandchildren. Even then I always had at the back of my mind the thought I was not presenting to them an example of holiness  in this world that they could want to emulate.

I am still too close to sin and even now am not sure that I am truly turning to God as I try to wake up in this world remembering that Jesus basically told us  to ignore our physical reality and follow him.

Of course, I am not right in interpreting "My Kingdom is not of this world" as a new commandment to "ignore physical reality" as he also assured us that our good deeds made during our lifetimes were not ignored by Our Father in Heaven and in the Incarnation he actually shared our flesh and himself resisted all the temptations that we face.

We all live in this world as a preparation to enter the Kingdom of Heaven which is a state of being beyond our understanding, beyond our Universe where we can all be forgiven our trespasses to the same extent as we have lived lives of righteousness in this world, by repudiating all aspects of sin.

It must be very difficult for the Great and the Good, the rich and powerful, the Davids, Solomons, and Herods of this world to become as the publican in the Temple humbling beating his breast in search of forgiveness for his sins. It is not easy even for me who am lower in the world even than the publican to maintain the innocence to which our Incarnate God, Jesus of Nazareth showed us the way.

I have to remember "Your Father in heaven knows the hairs of your head" and has created for all his people the Church of Love, His Mystical Body the New Holy Family into which place of love and safety he welcomes us with arms outstretched on the cross:

"Woman behold your son. Son behold your mother."