05/03/2026

Thursday Week 2 Lent 2026

As I begin to read the mass-readings of the day I am often aware that they have already become a familiar part of my being, my "amness".

The image of a well watered tree flourishing on a riverbank has always made me smile, and in the last half of my life, I have also been able to see this in the reality of my own garden. 

The WORD is the very essence of Old and New Testament. In the Old, IAMIAM, speaks through the prophets who are men inspired to proclaim what has always been, from the beginning of time, Good News, the Gospel, God loves us. 

All the prophets have been overcome by the Lord and persevere in their individual covenants to guide their neighbours into the state of "isness" that lives in total awe of God. Jeremiah shouts out that IAMIAM is the source and completion of his being, his heart is bursting with the joy of knowing God.

With Jesus, "there is always something greater here" and he is thus able to add to his parable of human life a warning that is for my generation being fulfilled in the negative even as I now read and listen to His words as recorded in Matthew's Gospel, and as it has always been since he became the Resurrection. We have never accepted the Truth as preached by Prophets nor even as reality in his own Life, death and Resurrection.

God has revealed himself to be not an abstraction, not a notion, not an idea, but the ever greater three-personned IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT who has always fulfilled his part of his promise to Abraham only to be rejected by his own beloved "image and likeness" in both Testaments.

Today, a click of my mouse opens up scenes of destruction brought about by mankind. Nothing that I can see on this screen is happening by the will of God. Mankind has often proclaimed "Holy Wars" and today there are many who are still doing that.

How can we hope for the Return when we who have been saved and know the Resurrection are no better at doing his will than were his crucifying  contemporaries? 

Lord, have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy

"Not one iota will pass from the Law until all is completed"