Energy

 

Earthly energy is surpassed by spirtual joy and love.

Time must end at some point, and we know the end will be horrific. While there is time we should prepare, and part of the preparation must be prayer to praise God and ask for mercy and forgive our sins.

I don't know which is more significant, that He yearns for our requests, or that people refuse to believe in Him or that all things are meant to come to an end - so that something eternally new can arise which involves us, rising to meet the Lord and enter into that which He has been preparing.

It is possible that we have been living in a human-friendly time, and that the old benign regime of climate is ceasing. Speculate all you want, but the truth is, things will take place over which we have no control, and from the looks of it, we might not survive. We know that God's mercy is abroad in the world, and those who grasp the supernaturality of existence no longer concern themselves over special epochs or favorable if astounding events. It won't matter to anyone absorbed in the immersion of our being into Christ. Why worry about bleeding and weeping statues when Jesus and His Mother reach out so fervently to us to embrace and love them as He is enabling us now?

Why would they insist so stenuously that we try to grow spiritually to be able to perceive them in our ordinary mortal existence? It can only be because they love us, and that loving them in return is more important than anything else.

We shhoudl not live for consolations, but neither should we turn our back on them if they are the agent of our maturation? Certainly chastising cataclsysms do not matter more? 

When Ezekiel did what he was told and entered a cave to watch the world convulse, he knew God was not in the upset and tumult, but recognised Him in a tiny whisper. The wind had blown so bad the rocks werre broken by it. Yet the wind was not what was important, the whisper was.

Is the Lord reaching out to you, straining to touch you, and speaking comforts and love to you? Perhaps you  do not know because you did not listen hard enough and did not grow so that you might be capable. Nevermind, for He is able to appear to you and to reach out and touch you so you are changed.

God knows what you need, which is why He provides what you need. Where is the gratitude? Gratitude more than anything else attracts the Lord, and if He sees you are willing and paying attention to a certain extent, you may come to know Him in His presence in your prayers, and the joy that inexplicably overflows from deep within you to confer the certainty you need.

If you entered a monastery and applied yourself to your utmost, it would be worth it to live through the final  moment of existane, buoyed up by joy and His embrace carrying you heaven to be with Him. yet do not give up anticipating that He could visit you palpably at some point and in some moment when He is particulalry near. They have been touched by God who go out of their way to be kind to others when all around you cruelty and violent hatred reign. That the  joy and kindness are present because of  you will make His Heart swell with love.