Rest

We may participate in the passion of Christ or the suffering of our best friend, or we can participate in the passion of Jesus, which is a case unto itself.

 Sometimes our friend shares his suffering, and we do not feel it, but we are sad noentheless because he suffers.

There is enough suffering to go around; it will never be lacking. We do not necesarilly come to know the cause of our sorrows, or we feel the sadness without relief and without knowing why. But it is a universal constant that is always present, seemingly, without rhyme or reason.

All of us have sinned, so there is always that to postulate as the cause of our suffering. If we offer a prayer for the relief of our friend, it is a blessing when he is relieved, and a good man is glad when suffering ends and joy returns. Blessed is the man with a friend who offers himself for his friend :) +

Sinai

I found bliss in the strangest place; in the middle of a strong temptation, My Lord revealed Himself in a close embrace that inumdated my senses.

He is the God of the unexpected, the God who revealks HImself in ambushes, sweeping us off our feet, weightless for all our cares.

Whatever you need, He knows about it and provides Himself as an answer to all the questions fears and doubts with thich the enemy torments us.

To be lost is a fear that saps all the joy form ouir souls, but God's supply is infinite, and so our lives can never know borned or ennui; His prsence is all encompassing.

May you feel caress.

Moses was attracted to a burning tree that was not consumed.

God reveals Himself to us so we will let hIm consume us.

Abyssal

There is a moment that comes into every life, when a person discovers he has been standing at the knife's edge of the abyss. Blessed the man for whom prayer is sufficient, efficacious for the moment.

The best prayer is the one in that exact moment, where the heart earnestly appeals to God to love him and urgently seeks to be forgiven sins and to advance beyond retribution to reach out and touch His Face.

Once the storm has passed, peace returns, but one is not the same. All advances in spiritual life are after that moment when we have died in that moment.

People have wondered for as long as there have been human beings, what is death? We know it is a change, but that does terrify as much losing all control over our existance. There should be no fear in someone who has stood at the lip of the abyss and seen all the way across the abyss to Jesus, earnestly waving for us to cross over and stand at His side. 

Some have been and come back, but they are not the same; that person has been changed by God so that we prepared to transcend, having left discomfort behind.

Most of what we experience in life is of a nature we can do nothing about. The tiny point in abyss remains the moment of terror when we emerge in the light broad vistas of Jesus. Perhaps that is why those who have sought peace and solitude found them on a high mountainside, or a great sweeping ocean where the waves curl in ceaselessly.

Cor Amadeo

 The feeling of being abandoned for some trespass is not easy to live with, or, frankly to get rid of. But it is a feelings I have consented to live with for the sake of the Lord because it pleases Him.

The stakes are too grave to refuse. Trouble is, it is difficult to live with so much sadness, confusion and chaos, and the destruction and violence of wars can only be ground down by something equally as hard. 

In that regard, for transgressors who have done substantial destruction because he feels he is entitled, hope is almost dead of ever seeing life spring up again in such a hostile environment. When it gets too much, He gets to taste the fullness of such desolation. But in the voyage, it is impossible to pass by places where all His love has been so profligately splashed across the landscape. So on one hand, there is the starkest beauty in desolation and the suffering of abandoment, but on the other hand, to be in that moment when my feet will tread no farther no matter what I try to will. Seeing me and what has happened to me, He is not distant, and if He did not consent to mitigate the darkness I could not go on in this life.

As a consequence, He reaches down to me where I am laid out on the ground and lifts me up to be with Him at His side. He puts His finger in my side, and asks me to put my finger into His side because He cannot bear to be without the love He finds, and bathed in the crimson of His sacrifice, I am filled with bliss and tears wash my face, as He helps me to my feet when He sees I am ready.

My ey is upon you, to guard your step and
to reach out through your darkness to give you light.

Precision

A leaf leached out its tanin into the cement and
retained an image of the leaf in the cement.

The whole act was precise. Without precision, the bomb would not have exploded as designed.

Pictures show rubble where there had been buildings housing people,  but no people, the people were vaporized. No one in the youtube videos I have watched, about Hiroshima and Nagasaki nor even Trinity itself, mention EMP. It undobtedly existed, but no one noted the electromagnetic pulse that resulted from the release of nuclear force. Afterwards, the Japanese commanders noted total silence where there was usually all kinds of chatter by military personnel performing their duties, and civil authorities noted the abscence of chatter on radios from all over the region that usually existed. The people who would have made all the chatter did not transmit anyting - they no longer physically existed.

The largest ever nuclear detonation was made by Russia, called Tsar Bomba. It was so powerful, that it caused disruption of radio and electronic devices instantaneously. It proved to be too powerful, destroying too much to be usuable.

In some movies describing a nuclear attack, the people at ground zero beneath the thermonuclear explosion hear an eerie ringing sound and then there is silence. Any electronic device not sheilded from the electromagnetic pulse was destroyed by an electrical pulse that surges through electronic circuits, exploding each of them and rendering them useless.

That is why a place called Cheyenne Mountain was constructed inside a mountain in Colorado, so the electronic devices inside the bunker would be sheilded sufficiently from the power of the electronic wave. Government could go on functioning and armed forces could function to launch our own nuclear weapons at enemies far away.

The use of nuclear weapons would be an act of fury and anger of no use, because the land beneath a nuclear explosion would be vaporized and disintegrated, leaving rubble where pressure waves knocked down walls and incinerating everything in them.

The use of nuclear weapons defeats any human planning because the envisonment is made so toxic with radiation, that nobody could survive there, so that the primordial impulse to lay waste enemies is defeated itslelf.

Anyone not vaporised would be horribly burnt and already suffering from the exposure to nuclear radiation, a radiation that would remain potent and lethal for centuries. No enemy invader would gain anything because it would all remain deadly, in effect, forever. People in the Cheyenne Mountain complex might survive safe from EMP and atomic radiation, but 

there would be little rational impetus to launch nuclear weapons because the first wave had already reduced the world to a pit of death. The enemy would be dead, the civilian  population would be dead, and all human creations would be destroyed forever. Even something as simple as ordinary rainfall would be rendered deadly by radiation and the pollution of things burned into dust.

We do not have the right to ask to be spared if we do not commend ourselves to God and to Mary, the Mother of God, when they have begged us already to protect and defend us. We are so easilly overcome by our weaknesses that we are essentially defenseless. Thus, it would be a furtherance of insanity to turn away from God as if He had punished us by letting us blow ourseflves up.

The truth is, that we already can commit suicide in many ways; overating the wrong foods, drinking toxic beverages such as alcohol, ignoring medical warning signs, and indulging in things against which we have been warned, such a sexual promiscuity and indulgence. You can have a pretty good time partying and ignoring it all. But such things blind us to the truth that indulgence distances us from God who could sheild us if we asked Him. 

It is time to do good things, think good thoughts and offer God our love because He promises to help us and defend us from the evil intentions of others we will never meet.

I warn you, that the good we do will be seen and the good we do will bless us with untold happiness, if only we can forgo the things of this life which bind  us so. Only God offers us the release from that bondage to bring us life. The world only knows and only sees what interests evil. Where evil reigns, everyone must support evil. In this world there are those who engage in things that threaten life altogether. The human beings who adhere to the supremacy of sin, feel they are  safe from the consequnces of their wrong doing. But God will reveal everything, and the new universe He will create will be for those who love God and one another. No one else.

Cause

 

Cause for Concern

"My Jesus I Trust in You". 

Given the upheavals in political circles at the moment, this prayer is relevant for every human being on the planet right now. 

If people do not call on Jesus and Mary for protection and for an immediate increase in faith and love, it may be very difficult ot impossible to be in a right relationship with Him to ensure salvation.

Let me therefore point out that our future and the future of other human beings is dependant on our relationship to Jesus, in our hearts and in our actions in life rightnow.

All my life I, like millions of others, have lived  under the sword of nuclear war in which millions might be vaporised as were those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki  in world war two.

If there is no one else you love, let it be Jesus whom you love and to whom you turn with affection, putting aside all others in your heart so that there is nothing else but Jesus.

It requires nothing more than an expression of our love for Him, independant of our feelings. Do not let feelings stand in the way of a closer relationship with Jesus.

May God bless us all, protect us, and draw us close to Him.

We are one.

Considerations of an intercessing person

The Mother of God does not grow tired
of holding us close to Her Heartor of
leading us closee to Her Son, Jesus.

I say the Rosary every day. But I am a contemplative, so it makes a difference. I don't have the deep absorbtion in the presence of Jesus I had when I was younger, for reasons that were well-founded by the Lord, but lately I have felt closer than I have for many years.

It is not coincidental that I should encounter the Lord in my prayers, nor is it coincidental that when i have felt the desire to share in His passion, I have felt Him closer to me.

A contemplative encounters deep peace and love for the Lord of an intense nature. It is purely a gift, neither owed nor deserved, but it binds the person closer to Christ, enabling a contemplative person to pray with more ease. 

Particularly when a contemplative prays while offering himself to Jesus in an intense way, he is delighted to sit in quiet with a stilled heart, in which to enjoy the presence of Him who draws people to Himself. The tenderness and joy of animated, living joy causes one to love Jesus in a most pure way, undistracted and at rest in his soul. It ought not to be any surprise, given how much He loves us, and given the intensity of gratitude and love present in the passion, it ought not to be a surprise when a love of His passion impresses itself intensely on a soul that would rather spend his time with God than any beloved person or animal.

Most particulalrly, when a person loves the Lord unselfishly and with singular devotion, He reveals Himself quite freely, and one's prayers might be directed to others whom He calls to mind. If the soul follows the prompts of the Lord and prays for a certain favor to be granted, one might find himseld "sunk" deep into Him, aware of His person and His divinity in a deep way.

The prayer of the contemplative intercessor may be dry as a desert, with mind and soul united in wishing to love Him and draw close to him. Following the prompts of the Spirit to include certain groups of people in his prayers is providential. Then prayers for healing are considered by the Lord with more reslish, and in some cases the person might blaze with a genuine desire to encounter the Lord's passion. If the person yeilds, he may encounter discomfort or even greater things than that.

The world is in distinct need ot the Lord now, that brothers are instigated against brothers so that anger and violence or even war might break out. The world needs to experience the tenderness of the Lord's love, and in the place where a brother or sister yeild themselves in love to Jesus and are consumed by His love encounter His suffering passion, prayers may have strength enough overcome the anger and the violence and restore brothers to be at peace with one another.

For this reason, the Mother of God urges all to pray the Rosary. She is most capable of helping us with such matters, and stands beside the person who suffers, particulalry those whose hearts are particulalry loving and attentive to the passion of Jesus. For this reason, She asks us to say the Rosary. She is particulalrly capable of understanding how people and nations got where they are, beset by worries about finances and sufferings, particulalry those who sufferings are in the heart and involve others who have hurt and injured us.

When I pray the Rosary, I feel His peace, and often then am drawn into His rest and quiet, and lose myself in Him. I have found it easier to pray cotemplatively when saying the Rosary if I close my eyes to allow me to conentrate on Jesus and less of myself of my concerns. This can be a problem if the beads and links of the Rosary's chains are small, because one needs a cue to use to know when to say the various prayers of the Rosary.

I used to fall asleep in the middle of the Rosary, but if the rosary I am using to pray the Rosary does not differentiate the beads, then it can be difficult. The beads need to be large enough, and the first bead at the start of a new decade needs to be distant enough from the next bead so that it is not necessary to open my eyes and check whether the bead indicates a new prayer or not.

Keeping my eyes shut allows me to avoid distractions so I may concentrate on the prayers.

Someone who says the Rosary and brings his intentions to the Lord and to Mary and strives to be attentive to them will receive graces. In situations where healing is necessary, it is very helpful to be able to demonstrate one's love of Jesus and Mary by focusing on being loving and attentive. The world is full of distractions and we must attend to some as it is important for fulfilling our duties to other people. Jesus and Mary will especially love anyone who tries in their own way to  seek to be there for them.

If one prays, he is liable to be drawn closer to the Lord, and if one makes a habit of yeilding to the prompting of the Lord, it is quite possible one might be invited to come higher by the Lord. A genuine humility draws the Lord close so He makes us aware of Himself. Fasting and self denial dispose one to the Lord and to receive His favors, some of which might be extraordinary indeed, especially if one wishes to lavish a fresh love on others who have asked us to pray. Pleading for what someone else needs can bring a great deal of love into the picture. A person who prays contemplatively and in intercession for a person might lead to very great things indeed. 

The world needs the Lord in order to be a human being; those who give up praying and cease making any effort to pray may just find their lives empty all of a sudden, and bitter and cold. To get out of such a place requires prayer, but it can be an awful slog, so that it helps to pray for sweetness of the Lord to keep our hearts open to Him. 

Many sufferings accompany some people as a result. That suffering might be the occasion for a arid bitter to receive the gift of His love to dispell bitterness and despair.

When you say the Rosary, always include those in your prayers who have most need of His mercy and those most in need of His mercy so that they do die in despair but fervent with desire for the Lord and His merciful touch.

Keep in mind that the Mother of God is powerful in providing what She knows we need and that She wishes to fulfill us so that we may come to the moment of ultimate closeness to Jesus and His Mother.