Jongleur de Jesus

 

Psalm 50

Just to prove that God has a sense of humor, I post these photos here, taken from my iPhone.
He knew of my attraction to His passion, and deigned to share with me. It incapacitates, and makes me shudder thinking about what His passion was like in reality, because the reality of trying to hobble around on this sore foot gives pause for sure. The pain when I put weight on the foot is penetrating. I find myself wondering how St. Padre Pio could stand to walk around when he was one truly sharing in the fullest way, with the cross of Jesus. The pain penetrates truly all the way through just exactly as if there were nails, and I can openly endure this happenstance happy in my imitation of my Lord, safe in the thought the glory is His and the pain is mine to treasure in His love, and I am free for humiliation such as my sins deserve.

May the Good Lord bless His children with peace and all the good things we need, abundantly.

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Jongleur de Jesus

 

Psalm 50

Just to prove that God has a sense of humor, I post these photos here, taken from my iPhone.
He knew of my attraction to His passion, and deigned to share with me. It incapacitates, and makes me shudder thinking about what His passion was like in reality, because the reality of trying to hobble around on this sore foot gives pause for sure. The pain when I put weight on the foot is penetrating. I find myself wondering how St. Padre Pio could stand to walk around when he was one truly sharing in the fullest way, with the cross of Jesus. The pain penetrates truly all the way through just exactly as if there were nails, and I can openly endure this happenstance happy in my imitation of my Lord, safe in the thought the glory is His and the pain is mine to treasure in His love, and I am free for humiliation such as my sins deserve.

May the Good Lord bless His children with peace and all the good things we need, abundantly.

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Security

As a baby we did not know how to speak or see, yet we followed every sound our parents made, and were secure in their hands.

I have developed a small case of gout in my left foot, out of nowhere. It is painful but the pain is manageable, thankfully.

I was thinking recently about how we see. It is assuredly not on our own. It is telling that the mystical experience of prayer is often described as darkness or night. The eyes do not see the Lord, the spirit does. and if we are not granted the vision by which to see Him, to satisfy our longing to see, then we see by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The spirit longs to see the Lord, free of the limitations of the fleshen eyes, and the spirit shares in the being of God by His grace, and accordingly, when we begin to see spiritually, as it were, then we also participate in the joy of the Lord to involve us in His seeing, and advance toward unity with Him at His pace.

One must put aside the desires, as difficult as that may be, learning to see for the moment with eyes that can see nothing, while He prepares a place for us to abide with Him.

We cannot at first find words to convey the reality of our being, but to those with spiritual eyes, the gladness of the soul permeating a person united to Him cannot be mistaken for anything else but God.

We learn to proceed with trust, allowing the Lord to help us walk, though at times it may not be apparent we are moving at all, or are soaring without the burden of our former reality.

It is imperative we know these things in a world that can be annihilated in an instant.

We should realize our time is short, and that it is important to ask Him what to say and what to do so that we may live in peace. Then too, sometimes there is no substitute for the flowing of the Holy Spirit through us in an astounding peace. To be aware of it, or to participate in it, it i necessary to pray with our spirit and our being. These are without words.

Security

As a baby we did not know how to speak or see, yet we followed every sound our parents made, and were secure in their hands.

I have developed a small case of gout in my left foot, out of nowhere. It is painful but the pain is manageable, thankfully.

I was thinking recently about how we see. It is assuredly not on our own. It is telling that the mystical experience of prayer is often described as darkness or night. The eyes do not see the Lord, the spirit does. and if we are not granted the vision by which to see Him, to satisfy our longing to see, then we see by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The spirit longs to see the Lord, free of the limitations of the fleshen eyes, and the spirit shares in the being of God by His grace, and accordingly, when we begin to see spiritually, as it were, then we also participate in the joy of the Lord to involve us in His seeing, and advance toward unity with Him at His pace.

One must put aside the desires, as difficult as that may be, learning to see for the moment with eyes that can see nothing, while He prepares a place for us to abide with Him.

We cannot at first find words to convey the reality of our being, but to those with spiritual eyes, the gladness of the soul permeating a person united to Him cannot be mistaken for anything else but God.

We learn to proceed with trust, allowing the Lord to help us walk, though at times it may not be apparent we are moving at all, or are soaring without the burden of our former reality.

It is imperative we know these things in a world that can be annihilated in an instant.

We should realize our time is short, and that it is important to ask Him what to say and what to do so that we may live in peace. Then too, sometimes there is no substitute for the flowing of the Holy Spirit through us in an astounding peace. To be aware of it, or to participate in it, it i necessary to pray with our spirit and our being. These are without words.

Merry-Go-Round

 I have had internal problems again and have slowly recuperated. Along with feeling lousy comes a lack of desire and inspiration; they are hard to combat.

Given what is going on in the world, I feel like I am on a merry-go-round, hanging on for dear life. i offered my small sufferings to Jesus and His Mother for the sake of souls. I hope you will do the same and profit from the graces that flow from doing so.

Spring is establishing itself firmly and the trees are fully loaded with beautiful leaves. The Cottonwoods soar high and sway in the wind. i  miss the hummingbirds. people in the apartments above me have a feeder and it usually os very busy. The hummers flock in from the feeders to rest in the treetops, usually, but they abruptly disappeared. I read that California has a bloom going on and the birds have gone south for the feast :). A little rain is all it takes to clothe the hillsides in life .

The propaganda machines ae busy on Youtube, and I continue to pray for peace. Meantime, let us pray the truth be known and not the lies.

UPDATE:
I think my troubles are related to fasting. I will have to mitigate the fasting.

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A Pied-Billed Grebe. Taken at Bitter Lake yesterday.

Merry-Go-Round

 I have had internal problems again and have slowly recuperated. Along with feeling lousy comes a lack of desire and inspiration; they are hard to combat.

Given what is going on in the world, I feel like I am on a merry-go-round, hanging on for dear life. i offered my small sufferings to Jesus and His Mother for the sake of souls. I hope you will do the same and profit from the graces that flow from doing so.

Spring is establishing itself firmly and the trees are fully loaded with beautiful leaves. The Cottonwoods soar high and sway in the wind. i  miss the hummingbirds. people in the apartments above me have a feeder and it usually os very busy. The hummers flock in from the feeders to rest in the treetops, usually, but they abruptly disappeared. I read that California has a bloom going on and the birds have gone south for the feast :). A little rain is all it takes to clothe the hillsides in life .

The propaganda machines ae busy on Youtube, and I continue to pray for peace. Meantime, let us pray the truth be known and not the lies.

UPDATE:
I think my troubles are related to fasting. I will have to mitigate the fasting.

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A Pied-Billed Grebe. Taken at Bitter Lake yesterday.

Treasure

 

Oh you insubstantial thing, do you not know that
I love you as my greatest treasure?
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ArizonaDesertDrive

If you were to drive through the desert and you saw a little plateau, why would you not suspect that all the rock sloping down from its sides had experienced the force of erosion, wind and rain? On the day of your journey through the desert, it would be amazing to see that such forces were at work even as you drove by.

It may not be raining as you pass, but how else can you explain the evidence of your own eyes?

If it is stormy and frightening with vivid lightening flashes and startling thunder, will it not pass as the stream of the atmosphere rushes on? Just so, trust in the Lord, that He will bring low the mountain in your path, and still the thundering violence of the wind and air.

Today was not given to regret the past or dread the future, but that God might be with you, and you might experience His embrace. Why are you in the quiet garden if not to feel the warmth of His embrace?

Often times, when watching a video of a strange and captivating place of solitude I think, "Now that is where I should make my hermitage", and the Lord replies, "you are with me and I pass through places and you have not seen the world I have seen because you have so little time."

Yet, ours is all of eternity if we embrace our Creator and do not sadden Him with our sins.

Journey on, and see all He has to show, and trust that you will sleep fully satisfied.

Treasure

 

Oh you insubstantial thing, do you not know that
I love you as my greatest treasure?
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ArizonaDesertDrive

If you were to drive through the desert and you saw a little plateau, why would you not suspect that all the rock sloping down from its sides had experienced the force of erosion, wind and rain? On the day of your journey through the desert, it would be amazing to see that such forces were at work even as you drove by.

It may not be raining as you pass, but how else can you explain the evidence of your own eyes?

If it is stormy and frightening with vivid lightening flashes and startling thunder, will it not pass as the stream of the atmosphere rushes on? Just so, trust in the Lord, that He will bring low the mountain in your path, and still the thundering violence of the wind and air.

Today was not given to regret the past or dread the future, but that God might be with you, and you might experience His embrace. Why are you in the quiet garden if not to feel the warmth of His embrace?

Often times, when watching a video of a strange and captivating place of solitude I think, "Now that is where I should make my hermitage", and the Lord replies, "you are with me and I pass through places and you have not seen the world I have seen because you have so little time."

Yet, ours is all of eternity if we embrace our Creator and do not sadden Him with our sins.

Journey on, and see all He has to show, and trust that you will sleep fully satisfied.

Peace

We are family, part of each other's lives.

Those who promote war when a way to peace is open, take a path into hell and eternal damnation in the most exquisite pain.

We should ask for peace at every opportunity, regardless of the pain involved in giving ourselves to Christ.

We should do all in our power to ask the Lord for peace, instead of stirring up innocent souls who stand only to be destroyed by the implements of war. Hatred sets aside all possibilities for peace and rest. If you hate your brother and wish his death in war, you are bringing down on yourself, the death you would wish to avoid yourself.

God created both yourself and your brother. Just as we are obligated to sustain and protect the lives of our children, so too we are obligated to pray for the good and the welfare of all other human beings. Let the prayer for peace be a shield held high by the Holy Spirit and the strong arms of Jesus crucified. If the Holy Spirit is near us, He will hold our arms straight and give them strength to persevere, because that is His goal for us all.

Let us pray for strength, grace and peace so that in every instant, we are ready to make  ourselves available to the Holy Spirit in the combat against evil in the world. People who wish to live and die in peace, the friendship with Jesus, must offer their very selves to God as a sacrifice to be used to sanctify others and ourselves, so that we may become a source of strength at all times. While we are alive, we have great work to do securing the place of Jesus with all His power, in the world, so that peace and strength prevail in a world of violence and sin, of selfishness and all the ways that hell employees to drag us from the arms of Jesus.

Whilst we are busy and trying to prove things beyond doubt, we should never fail to believe in the victory of Jesus in the world, and the place of our brothers at our side pouring forth their own selves in the struggle of salvation.

God will ask this of us, and judge us on our love for others. Let there never be any doubt when we are examined by those who will undoubtedly examine us and find us lacking, that we stood firmly at the side of the Crucified who proved and proves, His love of us at every moment until everything is accomplished and a new heavens and a new earth appear. May they appear beforehand so that we may see and live in awe of the love and power of Jesus toward us all. Let Him hold you in His pierced hands, and may He anoint you with His own Blood to seal you against sin or selfishness, so that you may be a source of the greatest consolation for your brothers.

Pray for the peace of God in Jesus to be abundantly present to us all, so that the divine order might be established and the just may enjoy peace in silence established with all He said.

I celebrated my 77nd birthday yesterday. It is an incentive to be present to Jesus in silence and solitude, however we are disposed so that in the final analysis, it may not be doubted we loved Him always, and fought always to belong to Him no matter what happens around us, so that others may realize there is a Garden full of quiet and peace and the joy of being with Jesus.

Peace

We are family, part of each other's lives.

Those who promote war when a way to peace is open, take a path into hell and eternal damnation in the most exquisite pain.

We should ask for peace at every opportunity, regardless of the pain involved in giving ourselves to Christ.

We should do all in our power to ask the Lord for peace, instead of stirring up innocent souls who stand only to be destroyed by the implements of war. Hatred sets aside all possibilities for peace and rest. If you hate your brother and wish his death in war, you are bringing down on yourself, the death you would wish to avoid yourself.

God created both yourself and your brother. Just as we are obligated to sustain and protect the lives of our children, so too we are obligated to pray for the good and the welfare of all other human beings. Let the prayer for peace be a shield held high by the Holy Spirit and the strong arms of Jesus crucified. If the Holy Spirit is near us, He will hold our arms straight and give them strength to persevere, because that is His goal for us all.

Let us pray for strength, grace and peace so that in every instant, we are ready to make  ourselves available to the Holy Spirit in the combat against evil in the world. People who wish to live and die in peace, the friendship with Jesus, must offer their very selves to God as a sacrifice to be used to sanctify others and ourselves, so that we may become a source of strength at all times. While we are alive, we have great work to do securing the place of Jesus with all His power, in the world, so that peace and strength prevail in a world of violence and sin, of selfishness and all the ways that hell employees to drag us from the arms of Jesus.

Whilst we are busy and trying to prove things beyond doubt, we should never fail to believe in the victory of Jesus in the world, and the place of our brothers at our side pouring forth their own selves in the struggle of salvation.

God will ask this of us, and judge us on our love for others. Let there never be any doubt when we are examined by those who will undoubtedly examine us and find us lacking, that we stood firmly at the side of the Crucified who proved and proves, His love of us at every moment until everything is accomplished and a new heavens and a new earth appear. May they appear beforehand so that we may see and live in awe of the love and power of Jesus toward us all. Let Him hold you in His pierced hands, and may He anoint you with His own Blood to seal you against sin or selfishness, so that you may be a source of the greatest consolation for your brothers.

Pray for the peace of God in Jesus to be abundantly present to us all, so that the divine order might be established and the just may enjoy peace in silence established with all He said.

I celebrated my 77nd birthday yesterday. It is an incentive to be present to Jesus in silence and solitude, however we are disposed so that in the final analysis, it may not be doubted we loved Him always, and fought always to belong to Him no matter what happens around us, so that others may realize there is a Garden full of quiet and peace and the joy of being with Jesus.

Assumptions

Shall I be disturbed, or am I the Lord of Heaven
and earth in whom you should trust?

Be careful what you assume. Plans can change in an instant. I have been praying, for some time now, that the Blessed Mother would end the war in Ukraine and bring peace in the many conflicts in the world. One must take foreign news media with some skepticism because their expectations are high, and they want certain things so badly, that they interpret some events as nearly miraculous. Still, time has a way of clarifying things, and the truth eventually is set forth.

We must trust that God will always speak the truth, and if He asks for anything, we ought to instantly take Him up on the offer, so as not to lose grace when it is available.

So my curiosity was piqued this morning when a news outlet posted a video on Youtube on how Putin was in peace talks. Call it what you will, but truth is often slowly revealed, and miraculous events vanish when the truth finally is told.

Accepting what people say wholly is a recipe for disappointment, to say the least. Behind the serpent's tongue is often a mouthful of venom waiting to be released in a savage bite. There are some people that no one should trust. Russia still acts and operates very much like the Soviet Union, and no one should let their guard down just yet. Putin wants something badly. The fact that he has not overwhelmed Ukraine with his invasion is a sign to not trust events or to get your hopes up too high. People who want something as badly as Russia wants may resort to desperate measures, and will oil the wheels of tanks with venom.

I do not doubt the Blessed Mother. She will vanquish Her enemies. Do not cease praying, saying your Rosary or doing penance. Each and every tiny thing you do for penance will be powerful because God makes it powerful. Standing at the side of Mary will get a front row seat in the conquest to come, and those who trusted Her, also thereby trusted Jesus, who has in the past so urgently expressed His desire that we trust Him. Ask Him to forgive your sins, and He will. If you do not sin, you have nothing to worry about. Trust that He will see to it that you are saved.

Let His in-dwelling peace reign in your heart, and do not let the world invade your heart or your peace, but trust in God. to protect you and make you glad in life.

Assumptions

Shall I be disturbed, or am I the Lord of Heaven
and earth in whom you should trust?

Be careful what you assume. Plans can change in an instant. I have been praying, for some time now, that the Blessed Mother would end the war in Ukraine and bring peace in the many conflicts in the world. One must take foreign news media with some skepticism because their expectations are high, and they want certain things so badly, that they interpret some events as nearly miraculous. Still, time has a way of clarifying things, and the truth eventually is set forth.

We must trust that God will always speak the truth, and if He asks for anything, we ought to instantly take Him up on the offer, so as not to lose grace when it is available.

So my curiosity was piqued this morning when a news outlet posted a video on Youtube on how Putin was in peace talks. Call it what you will, but truth is often slowly revealed, and miraculous events vanish when the truth finally is told.

Accepting what people say wholly is a recipe for disappointment, to say the least. Behind the serpent's tongue is often a mouthful of venom waiting to be released in a savage bite. There are some people that no one should trust. Russia still acts and operates very much like the Soviet Union, and no one should let their guard down just yet. Putin wants something badly. The fact that he has not overwhelmed Ukraine with his invasion is a sign to not trust events or to get your hopes up too high. People who want something as badly as Russia wants may resort to desperate measures, and will oil the wheels of tanks with venom.

I do not doubt the Blessed Mother. She will vanquish Her enemies. Do not cease praying, saying your Rosary or doing penance. Each and every tiny thing you do for penance will be powerful because God makes it powerful. Standing at the side of Mary will get a front row seat in the conquest to come, and those who trusted Her, also thereby trusted Jesus, who has in the past so urgently expressed His desire that we trust Him. Ask Him to forgive your sins, and He will. If you do not sin, you have nothing to worry about. Trust that He will see to it that you are saved.

Let His in-dwelling peace reign in your heart, and do not let the world invade your heart or your peace, but trust in God. to protect you and make you glad in life.

Rest

When God looks at us, He is  not seeing merely  a lively blob of flesh, but a  spirit. Perhaps we could look upon God in a similar way. He is not merely flesh, but Spirit. It is our spirit that is superior to the flesh that characterizes His approach to us and the way in which He deals with us.   Thus, we should  follow His example, and try to recognize the spiritual side of ourselves.

For a young person, life is to the far horizons; as we get older, and the body begins to respond sluggishly and starts to hurting us in the midst of all the simplest activities, that we realize we are aging, and we are approaching the day when we will be free of the flesh and live as spirit. Many people are troubled by this event, and try to  do anything they can to restore their body to it is  former responsiveness, and to stave off the moment when we leave this reality to encounter the one our spirit had tried to assert all our life.

The passion-life of Jesus was meant to atone for sin and to clear the way for a closer unity with us in our life. But it depends on our response to His grace. Without grace, any attempt at unity is going to be very difficult, yet He is not without generosity, and pours out graces on us in abundance. Regardless, that grace must somewhat stick with us, or no one would  show the slightest inkling that we are aware of Him.

But people are aware; some prefer not to be reminded of His proximity. The bitterness in the Heart of Jesus is there because of  our rejection of His love and grace, so that our life is diminished even as it is dwindling away.

We cannot let sin prevent us responding to Him so that we might be transformed. The whole point of His ministry in life was that we can turn to Him and we can expect grace to help us and to change us. The whole point of my existence is to live to serve others by my prayers and penances, to elicit the grace that is needed by everyone so desperately. 

We are all under a death sentence, but we cannot let that darken  us to the point we are simply paralysed in fear, because there is work to be done, and we each have a task to accomplish. It will be the salvation of us if we pay attention. He is not unaware of our needs, nor does He refuse us what we need, even if we have sinned. Even the earth itself is full of light and warmth to remind us. If we allow ourselves to take some rest in prayer, we might not only see the light, but feel the Spirit moving through us like a gentle, restful peace.

Rest

When God looks at us, He is  not seeing merely  a lively blob of flesh, but a  spirit. Perhaps we could look upon God in a similar way. He is not merely flesh, but Spirit. It is our spirit that is superior to the flesh that characterizes His approach to us and the way in which He deals with us.   Thus, we should  follow His example, and try to recognize the spiritual side of ourselves.

For a young person, life is to the far horizons; as we get older, and the body begins to respond sluggishly and starts to hurting us in the midst of all the simplest activities, that we realize we are aging, and we are approaching the day when we will be free of the flesh and live as spirit. Many people are troubled by this event, and try to  do anything they can to restore their body to it is  former responsiveness, and to stave off the moment when we leave this reality to encounter the one our spirit had tried to assert all our life.

The passion-life of Jesus was meant to atone for sin and to clear the way for a closer unity with us in our life. But it depends on our response to His grace. Without grace, any attempt at unity is going to be very difficult, yet He is not without generosity, and pours out graces on us in abundance. Regardless, that grace must somewhat stick with us, or no one would  show the slightest inkling that we are aware of Him.

But people are aware; some prefer not to be reminded of His proximity. The bitterness in the Heart of Jesus is there because of  our rejection of His love and grace, so that our life is diminished even as it is dwindling away.

We cannot let sin prevent us responding to Him so that we might be transformed. The whole point of His ministry in life was that we can turn to Him and we can expect grace to help us and to change us. The whole point of my existence is to live to serve others by my prayers and penances, to elicit the grace that is needed by everyone so desperately. 

We are all under a death sentence, but we cannot let that darken  us to the point we are simply paralysed in fear, because there is work to be done, and we each have a task to accomplish. It will be the salvation of us if we pay attention. He is not unaware of our needs, nor does He refuse us what we need, even if we have sinned. Even the earth itself is full of light and warmth to remind us. If we allow ourselves to take some rest in prayer, we might not only see the light, but feel the Spirit moving through us like a gentle, restful peace.