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The Hour Glass

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The turmoil, troubles and falling away which the Catholic Church has experienced in recent years maybe solved by making the past the path into the future. Through the rediscovery of our perfected precepts, the Body of Christ through our Catholic Faith and our continuing conversion of the heart will recreate the cornerstone and construct Jesus’ Church. As it was, as the Holy Spirit makes it and as it will be.  Through right thinking, evangelization flows naturally from one idea to the next.  Solutions found by reestablishing the harmony in the “Form and Content” of our Church. What does this mean?

Take the hour glass, unmistakable in its form, design and purpose. It’s immediately recognizable; in its symmetry, its functionality and in its simplicity, no other structure is like it, no other structure can take its place. It is the Form. It is the way that it is, because it is the only way it can be. This is the Church.

The sand; each grain is exquisitely unique.  Distinctively faceted, a shade apart from the rest, fashioned by God and honed by nature. This is the Content. Bathed in paradox, because the only element they truly share is that each is different. Yet taken in their entirety, each is uniform, locked in perfect harmony with the rest. This is the Body.

We realize the Form can not be changed, rearranged or altered in any way. And nothing can be added or taken away from the content. Not even the most beautiful diamond among the sand, for nothing else belongs there. There can be no substitutes; there are no equivalents, for only a genuine and measured amount will work.

Simply put, the “Hour Glass” provides the best example of the Catholic Church. Without the Form the Content fulfills no purpose.  Without the Content the Form has no function.

Right Thinking

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I suppose, in the beginning, there is holiness. Sure seems like a likely frame of reference, a good place to start and a good place to end. Any conversation about God wouldn’t be complete without a word on paradoxical thinking. Webster’s dictionary tells us that a paradox is a self-contradictory statement and, hence, false. I say it is a self-contradictory statement and, hence, both true and false. I say, God is the sum of infinite.

I suppose, right thinking would also include dichotomy. Webster tells us dichotomy is a division into two mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities, such as theory and practice or thought and action. But on examination, I find dichotomy not exclusive, more symbiotic. I think dichotomy is better understood as, form and content, formative and transformative. To broadcast this into theology; gospel and the effects of gospel, knowing God and knowing about God. Catholicism teaches that there is one rich, dense and complex reality; a very practical solution to a seemly perplexing dilemma.

So what is right Christian thinking? Viewing the Gospel in the best possible light. See the Bible as a library, not just a book. Knowing love is willing the good of others. Imitating Christ by praying our life is a blessing to everyone. Knowing God, and learning about God. Carrying our cross and thinking the truth in our hearts. Being holy.

Jesus knew we could not carry our cross. He knew the process would be to try and fail and try some more. He knew the process leads everyone to give it up to Him. Jesus knew the result would be to ask us to carry His cross; because “my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” The Bible tells us Jesus is the truth, (the light and the way) which is a timeless truth and is all things to all people at all times. And there lies dichotomy and the destruction of paradox.

About Liberals

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Let’s talk about Liberals; they seem to have a thread of reality which weaves the process of becoming more enlighten with some vision of a Utopia. The argument seems to rest on the idea that if we somehow legislate, regulate and mandate some of the elements of greatness we will be great. Granted everyone wants to rise above the human condition, as we look upon this fallen and broken world, we realize surely there is a better way. And there is.

You know, we have all heard the argument against God. How God could let something evil happen or why didn’t God do something to stop a tragedy. Well the obvious answer is He did something to stop the madness, He made us. But too many people gave the work to the government to do, or the schools or the Boy Scouts or who ever they decided could better handle the responsibilities. More often than not, when asked what they, as liberals are doing to raise us humans above our humanity, the answer you’ll get is; I’m raising awareness. Good thing you can raise awareness while you are sitting on your hands or nothing would be getting done.

It seems to me that Jesus didn’t put and end to slavery. If the world doesn’t want slavery, then the world should end it. Jesus didn’t put an end to foreign wars. If the world doesn’t want foreign wars, then the world should put an end to it. If the world doesn’t want hungry people, then feed the people. The truth is always simple, seldom easy.

On Abortion

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How can man, even in the height of his arrogance know the mind of GOD… Isn’t it obvious that in the first instant of conception, there is only one cell, the only singularity in the life of an individual, when he is one with both parents and with God, his creator… the rest of his life is spent in the duality of all the possibilities… isn’t it obvious that God’s presence is in all places, always… how could He not be present in the one-celled life at the moment of life?

Abortion is legal, because the embryo is not a person…. Impossible… makes no sense… God made Adam in an instant, a full grown man… in an instant… how could you not be God’s creation in the instant of your creation?