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Three Steps

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Nothing is more important than the mission of the Church, which is to further the work of Christ in this world, to spread His word, His glory and goodness. The Church in its work is about collaboration not about empire building, it’s about the salvation of souls. So naturally a lot of focus has been on evangelization.

Simply put, evangelization is spreading the “good news”. The victory is ours; liberation from captivity, victory over death, sin, defeat and victory over the trappings of this world.

Now let’s travel from transcendental to practical. From theology to practice without co-opting, compromising and corrupting what is beautiful, good, and true. Three easy steps:  put God first, maintaining a high meditative state of mind, living in the presence of the Lord. Second, be a saint. Realize your life is not your own. Our purpose is to draw faithfulness out of everyone, not pump religion into them. And thirdly, be intuitive. We are all hard wired for God.

The love, grace and mercy of the Lord are given by Him to us in their fullness, as it is with Faith, a gift. In this life there will never be any more or any less of Him or His timeless truths in us. So, what is innate in us is inherited as intuition. We know what we know. If this is true, then one conclusion is this:

Intuition leads to cognition

Cognition leads to information

Information leads to knowledge

Knowledge leads to wisdom

Wisdom leads to understanding

Understanding leads to consciousness

Consciousness leads to enlightenment

Enlightenment leads to self-realization

Self-realization leads to revelation

Revelation leads to God

It’s all Intuition

So, it’s not His mercy and grace which grows, or His love; what deepens are our appreciation, gratitude, comprehension, trust and adoration of Him and for His gifts

Consider This, What If

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What if instead of saying, “Lord I am not worthy that you enter under my roof” or “Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ”; we would have spent 65 years saying this: Lord, You have gifted us with the goodness of life in the kingdom of your creation. You, Lord, bestowed your blessings on us through Your Son Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit who dwells in us. We are Yours and You are our God. We are Your worthy sons and daughters, created in Love and from Love. In Your good Graces we shall live in paradise for ever and ever.  Amen

The question becomes, would this prompt us to be joyful, healthy people striving to maintain the gifts of harmony and joyfulness which we received, forever living in gratitude and thankfulness. I offer you this; if Christ Jesus reconciled the world by His life, death and resurrection, then pray we freely receive His gift of glory and bathe in His brilliance.

not ours to sacrifice

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With all its dimensions, in all its searching and yearning, life holds but one truth and that’s Love. Love which shone through the eternal presence of the Lord into the emptiness of what would be. Love traveled faster than light, faster than thought. Unlike life, Love has no facets. Love is whole and complete. Viewed from any angle, from any vantage point it is found perfect, without form or scope. As in all creation, Faith is the gift and Love is the answer. Know that we cannot sacrifice, we can pour out of our self, self-giving Love; as God poured out Himself in the dawn of His command, ‘let there be light’. Jesus was and is our sacrifice. Did He not say, ‘I am going where you cannot come’? We cannot enter into His sacrifice, nor would we want to; too great is He. We are His witnesses and in His image and likeness we can Love.

What Can We Do Part V

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We recognize we are imitators of our Lord; we have been created in His likeness. This can be broadcast into our communities as peace and goodwill. Others will recognize our actions go beyond the events and situations which are happening around us. As with all that is holy, our worldview is soaked in paradox. Our lives are not defining us as a “life style”, we are creating the exceptional in a world of the ordinary. Ours is an expression of inspiration and of what can be; unattainable only approachable, for in this moment seekers become doers and doing becomes worthwhile. If nothing else, we will be seen as one’s with a caring heart, and this will be enough.

We have questioned what it will look like, and we have answered. We ask, what will we do, and we are answering; we will find the common denominator. The only common denominator it can be is the God Standard. Now the focus is simple and direct, the priorities certain and for sure. Are we acting out of love and humility? Do our actions appeal to everyone’s best interests and their highest ideals? If both answers are yes, then what we are doing is coming from a place of truth and pointing to the truth.