My people,
Good
Morning! May the LORD give strength to his people! May the LORD bless his
people with peace! Psalm 29:11- May Mama Mary’s love keep you safe.
In
school, my favourite two symbols were the Star and the Moon. So I had this
crazy notion that someday I would find me a pair of earrings that would be a
star and a half moon. I think that was the only part of me that one could call
being a punk. The reason I bring this up is on the 29th of January,
2014, at 5:58 am the sky wore the half moon and star exactly the way I would
love to have worn the earrings. My wish was fulfilled. The below picture is a
very close representation of what I saw in the sky.
In
my article, The Cross dated Monday, April 1, 2013 – I had written about a tree
that was visible from my window. Once in a year all the leaves of the tree turn
to a red colour. When the colour fades off the leaves fall, and the tree gets
completely barren. 3 days later the tree is filled again with the loveliest
green leaves you’ve ever seen.
It
is what Ecclesiastes 3:3 says it best - ’to every thing there is a season, and
a time to every purpose under the heaven:’
Now
when I look, I can only see the corners of the tree. It is covered by a coconut
tree that is setting a record for itself by growing all huge and broad.
God
knew I needed a push, this beautiful tree out my window was one of my many
signs. My time has finally come.
How
often, people make a prayerful petition and when they are on the verge of receiving they do not
acknowledge or they hesitate and pull back out of fear. They look at the circumstance and make a prediction that it is impossible for them to achieve. So it is lack of faith that makes them turn back, and lack of faith that makes them impatient and drop out, thinking and believing that their dreams are impossible to achieve.
When I was growing up, my only prayer was for someone to love me and love me with all his heart. Back then it did not
matter if he was blind etc. All that I asked for was someone who would love me just
for being me. All I prayed and ever asked for was always ‘Love’. Nothing else
did I desire of this world.
Everybody
loves the movie ‘Titanic’. It’s pretty impressive but there are some things of
the movie that I don’t like. The selfish notion of love depicted in the movie,
to call it a love story, only shows that you hardly know what love really is.
Have I said something that has you shocked?
Okay,
I love the song, My heart will go on. I think it is the song that made you
believe that this was a perfect love story. I sing this song basically every
day, the lyrics to the first 3 paragraphs are:
Every night in my
dreamsI see you, I feel you
That is how I know you go on
Far across the distance
And spaces between us
You have come to show you go on
Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on
Beautiful words! And you are moved by the song, rightly so.
At
the end of the movie-when the ship has sunk, there is the two of them and a
wooden panel that can carry the weight of only one person and he decides that
she is the one who needs to live. He loved her, he sacrificed. She loved life
more than him. She wanted to live at the cost of his. That is not love. What
should have been is that they both survived or they both died. That would be a
true love story.
Zac’s
life has been a wayward one. Never bothered to who or when he hurt someone.
Zac
and his friends are all geared up for their trip. After a days journey their
vehicle comes to a halt, as it cannot move beyond this zone. From this point on
they have to travel on foot. Walking for miles on end, they decide to stop for
the day.
And
quietly and quickly Zac moves out. After hours he finds himself nowhere. Not to
worry, he says to himself, after all he is the master of all the high tech
gadgets. Opening the bag he realizes that he carried the wrong one. He builds
himself a tent and decides to call it a day.
Zac
wakes up early and walks continuously. It’s been 48 hours now and he feels his
parched throat and empty stomach. He can’t walk anymore, he thirsts. All that
he wishes is for food and water. Zac’s body begins to tire down and every now
and then between him hallucinating and reality he realizes all the wrongs done.
He feels immense pain. He feels alone. He wishes he had never done anyone
wrong. Its more than 72 hours and Zac knows he is
loosing touch with reality. He is not ready to die. And he prays to
God like he has never done before. He prays for Gods Mercy.
Zac dreams aways and as he does he sees a bottle of water in his bag and he also sees himself being
rescued. When he wakes up, he is unsure as to what he saw was reality or just an illusion. He decides first thing to look for the bottle of
water, in his bag. The first gulp he has he realizes what hope feels like and
how precious it is and he realizes God’s mercy and love. After 120 hours of
ordeal, Zac is rescued with his friends leading the way.
If
this seems tough imagine PURGATORY.
While
on Earth we all have a chance. Say we live upto 80 years, while here we have:
‘The Sacrament of Penance’ or Reconciliation (traditionally called the Confessions) and
‘The Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist’ (Holy Communion-The Body of Christ).
‘The Sacrament of Penance’ or Reconciliation (traditionally called the Confessions) and
‘The Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist’ (Holy Communion-The Body of Christ).
There
can be no better way to make progress on our spiritual journey than by returning
in humble repentance and love to God, whose forgiveness re-establishes us as His
children and restores us to peace.
Purgatory
can be a longer and more painful ordeal - it is a long separation from God, with
nothing to ease the pain. There is no relief. The souls – their deepest longing
is Heaven. I pray for you in earnest take good care of your soul.
Begin
with a good Confession and make it a point to receive the holy-communion every
Sunday.
It’s
so important to have somebody to love. The heart needs to understand and it
needs to be attached in love.
When
you love someone, you don’t ever want to be apart. You can’t bear a second
without them. Every minute apart is like a million years. It’s painful...very
painful.
In
life we all come about meeting people who can be hard hearted. People when they
achieve a position/status in society begin to think high and mighty about
themselves-and this can be from any walk of life. They make all wrong usage of
the power that they have. It intoxicates
them to a false notion of well being. Nothing changes, except that finally they
have something that they saw and wanted. Every one who comes in power,
sometimes or the other will always do wrong. And the only reason they do so, is
because they let it go into their head.
- They begin
to please people who belong to the higher rung of the ladder.
- They attend
to people who could support in terms of monetary benefits.
- The rest of
society is non existent.
- The ‘I’
becomes prevalent.
- They may sound humble and their words could be sweet but don’t be deceived. Their words will not go in hand with their actions.
Genesis
1:27 states- So God created humankind[a] in his image, in the image of God he created
them;[b] male and female he created them.
Ecclesiastes
3:20 states-
All go to one place; all are
from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Think
about it, what is pride? We did not create 1 thing on this Earth? We are but
what God allows in His Loving kindness and Mercy.
Yes
Jesus could have come as the Supreme King that HE is. But He chose to be born
in a manger.
Jesus
waits in all humility in the form of the Host, waiting everyday for each and
every one of us. HE waits to strengthen us for our protection against the
forces of darkness. He waits in a total surrender out of Love. Isn’t that what
love is?
I
die, so that you might live.
I
die again and again and again.
This
is what Jesus would do a million times over, that is the capacity of His love.
That is the fire that burns in His heart for each and every one of us.
Jesus
stays there waiting in such humility, how can that not move you? Jesus Waiting
in the form of a host, how can you not feel love?
Have
you ever loved anyone so much, and I will not refrain from using the word
passionately because it simply means with a fire that burns in your heart?
Love
is not like what you watch in the movie the Titanic, or it’s not just any song
you sing. Love is not just mere words. Love is trust, Love is a total
surrender. Jesus trusts that His love will make us come to Him. He surrenders
Himself completely keeping nothing to Himself. He waits there in the form of
the HOST that you and I will finally understand and be moved by His love for
us.
Abba,
Father, thank You for placing Your thought in my heart, for making that very
thought, my dream, and thank You for never letting go. Thank you for the gift
of Love.
My
Beloved, how wonderful it would be if we could know for certain the answers to
everything. Answers they are always there, but it’s the question that needs to
be asked?
With all my Love,
For Love Prevails!AnitA.
TO YOU
My Everlasting Love...
This is a love song,
from days not long ago
This is love and I
won’t let goThe greatest gift of all I found – is you,
You were the dream I
held on to,
the dream my heart longed to one day have.
My dream, came true the day I met you.
I know because...
I found the love...
in YOU!
the dream my heart longed to one day have.
My dream, came true the day I met you.
I know because...
I found the love...
in YOU!
PRAYER:
Abba,
Father, keep me obedient and always faithful. Remember, this your servant. Mama Mary keep me humble, I pray. Amen.
Half
Moon and number 1 - Date: 2nd February, 2014 - after the 6:00p.m. mass, way back
home. Abba Father, please help me
understand. Here I am! I come to do Your will.
understand. Here I am! I come to do Your will.
Thank You, Abba Father, for LOVE. 3rd July, 2014.
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