XIII
Master of Gravity – on a wave
– Lo there, do I see my father; Lo there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers; Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning; Lo they do call to me, they bid me to take my place among them, in the hallowed halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live forever!
»That’s what I feel about Jesus Christ.
– That’s a Viking funeral prayer.
– I know. And now I do solemnly declare that, as of this moment, I make it to be Our Lord’s.
– …
– Our Lord reaps where He hasn’t sowed, you know. And behold I come as a thief. Words of Jesus.
– Yes, but I think Jesus, when He said He would come as a thief, was talking about His Second Coming, as in, no one will know when that will be, unexpected, or when least expected, as said.
– Ah!, a learning experience. Everyday. I thank You, O Lord, for Thou art the Eternal Master. And due to the experience of Thy Eternal Nature of Thy Eternal Mastery, as in saying, bubbled inside of Thy Eternal Mercy – that echoes through eternal space – you never hear about it, completely, of course, if there were to be palms of eternal telescopes – a continuing praise of a brand new now, out of sense and good nature, in law, as it is, could this sentence be part of the palm of the hand, involving forever.
A praising machine
Not a washing machine
His Irish friends: well, if you’re coming this way, drop by and give us a hug. Being a hog something not very handy to travel with, he took some prosciutto for them instead.
Another
Phase 3
You can make videos, clicking the remote whenever the drummer hits the snare-drum, the bass-tom or wherever the wave may take you – all hands on deck! This is what we know so far.
We’ll be back right after this:
– Most people in this world live under illusions. Do I have to keep telling you the same thing over and over? Most people think they’re going to live here forever. I know that when you ask them if they feel that way, they say no, but it’s an automatic response, given that, a few seconds later, they’re back to their delusional selves.
»Again: Christians do not mistake this life with Eternal Life. I mean, what do you want me to say? As written in the Letter to the Hebrews: Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. And so is God’s will. So, in a way, whatever it could be said, as far as what God expects from us, turns out to be redundant – and reintroducing, God’s Will! Now with scrambled eggs com ovo a cavalo6…
We are still in the solemn moment
In the solemn hour
Within possession of new lands
Just now
– This girl sat across from me, facing me, and started reading a book. So I asked her: can I ask you two questions? She said, sure. So I asked: what are you reading? And she told me the name of the book. Then I asked: do you know what evangelizing means? She said no. So I told her to look it up and took out this business-like size card of the Guardian Angel, with a prayer on the other side, and gave it to her. And that was it.
For God made the sky and the earth around them
Turning that person who had that Angel for a Guardian to be to the world both a blessing or not, as in someone you might not want to upset or have the misfortune of treating bad if she happened to cross your way. That Guardian Angel shouldn’t be portrayed as in turning into a hit-man or something, but just to give an idea, but it would really turn him into something else, by comparison, making Sin City’s Marv look like Saint Francis of Assisi.
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.
O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; it is in dying that we are born again to eternal life.
In abstract – continued the Narrator. – It is not being tried to say something indirectly about whatever movie it might be mentioned, or giving it an overall approval stamp, but only this or that particular thing that’s mentioned. Such as, for instance, the reason why Alex, not having finished completely his degree in Theology, still was allowed to teach in a Catholic University by special permission of the Pope, being the explanation of the Holy Father for that in the nature of Bowfinger’s explanation on why movies in fact don’t cost millions of dollars to make, but eleven hundred dollars or something instead.
And then…
– Lo there, do I see my father; Lo there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers; Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning; Lo they do call to me, they bid me to take my place among them, in the hallowed halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live forever!
»That’s what I feel about Jesus Christ.
– That’s a Viking funeral prayer.
– I know. I adapted it. Our Lord reaps where He hasn’t sowed; and behold I come as a thief. Don’t you remember those words of Jesus?
– Yes, but I think Jesus, when He said He would come as a thief, was talking about His Second Coming, as in, no one will know when that will be, unexpected, or when least expected, as He put it.
– Yes, I know. But I said that not while making a serious theological comment, but in broad sense. You’re interpretation is the right one, of course.
– The other day, the Priest, in his homily in Mass, was commentating about the words of Jesus, when He said: make an effort to enter through the narrow door. For wide is the gate that leads to damnation. He said one thing about those words of Jesus that put the whole passage in perspective: he said that the narrow door is the service door, as in living this life, not posing yourself as in someone that thinks that the others are there to serve you, but making yourself servant of others. Now, here, service does not mean subservience. As in, if you like, in parallel for humility, it is not subservience, but to be true, and assertive, if you will, as in, the middle ground in between being bossy and a pushover.
»He also said the other day, in his homily, commentating the Parable of the rich man and of the indigent man – who the rich man took no note of – and he singled out this very interesting detail about that Parable. It goes something like this: there was this rich man, and there was this poor man, named Lazarus, as in, there was this rich man – whatever his name is – and there was this poor man, named Lazarus. Do you see the difference? The rich man that takes no notice on his fellow man starving and freezing to death, this one God doesn’t know. But the poor man, however, God knows his name. Needless to say that this isn’t the way the world works.
– But why doesn’t God stop their suffering and feed and clothe all those that are in need of such things?
– That question seems to come from someone that isn’t familiarized, or inappropriately, with Jesus’ Revelation. You know?, I could go on about the poor being here so to give you a chance to do good and so on, but I’m not even going to go there. I could also say, in a way in parallel to the question that Saint Faustina asked Jesus, as in, why don’t You punish the wicked?, to what Jesus replied, for that, I have all Eternity, so to say that despite the hardships you might had to endure during this life, this I guarantee to you: after death, if going to Heaven directly, all the misery you might have had to endure in this life will seem nothing more than a faint dream, because you have no idea what the gift of Heaven is. Saint Paul was lifted in spirit once to Heaven, and he said that there aren’t words to describe it; and Saint Thomas Aquinas, one of the most preeminent Christian philosophers and theologians, after a vision, said that all he had written was nothing but straw, as in nothing at all. And you have to keep in mind that Jesus appeared to him and said, you have written well about Me. But I’m not going to go there either, because, again, if you were just remotely familiarized with Jesus’ Message, you’d be put in context immediately, when such questions popped in your mind, with expressions such as the mystery of beatitude and the mystery of iniquity. Now, when contemplating those questions, you have to include another element, that being the truth. I want to say by this that, in sum, I think that one of the reasons why God is Someone you have to believe in, while in this world, is because this world, as it is, where God is invisible, seems to be a response or a demonstration of why things are as they are in Eternal Life, as in, while everybody is rich and pretty, and you see God right over there, it’s easy to be good. But when that is not the case, then one sees who is really good. Hence the element of truth I mentioned and why, in a way, by revealing yourself, as you currently are amidst the circumstances of this world, it is you that is being revealed, both to you and to others, who you truly are and why you’ll be what you’ll be in Eternal Life. That is one of the reasons why the Commandments are light, as in, don’t lie, don’t kill, don’t steal, because everything you do will have to be accounted for after you die. Nevertheless, the truth already makes its effect here on this world, and is indeed liberating, as Jesus said – going to bed at night with a clear conscience, for starters. And it’s liberating also because by believing in Jesus you are believing in the One that is completely free, as in, beyond any concept of right and wrong. Right and wrong are concepts that don’t apply to God. He Himself is the Law.
»Human laws of this world do not come from an honest philosophical reasoning, but rather as a way, in some cases, to prevent conflicts, as in somehow trying to prevent that the understood reasons that are believed for being the cause for this or that conflict won’t happen again. It has nothing to do with something like: here is the world, or our circumstances, and here is History, so let’s try and see what the truth is. I know that it is said that the truth is a relative thing, but, again, such statement is only put forward not because it is indeed true, but because it seeks to avoid conflict on the hand of those that have different takes on the world or on how or what humans and the world are. But of course the truth it’s not a relative or a subjective thing, but an objective one. As in, for instance, very basically, this is the planet we live in temporarily, there is the sun and there is the moon and, I mean, there’s nothing subjective about that. They’re there and they’re objective parts of your circumstances, despite you have them for truth or not. So you see that recent laws, that are sought to put forward, are nothing more than remedies or preventive measures for past problems, not because they are true and so brought forth from philosophical honesty. For instance, you had in the past conflicts between religions. So this current age says that all religions are the same or of the same value. Naturally that isn’t true, but it said in such a way so to seek prevention from future conflicts because of religious differences.
»I Am the Light of the world, said Jesus. Believing in Jesus Christ is to be truly conscious, awake and aware to the Truth about Reality, because, on the other hand, that is, if having Reality for something other than what Jesus said about it, is to be mistaken and walking in darkness, despite of the crowds that might think like you do. Have you noticed that liars always have the need, consciously or not, to find others or convince others to think like them, as in, trying to spread their comfort zone, if you like? Have you ever noticed that? And they’re always very desperate about it, always trying to push and justify their ideas onto the world, trying to change the name of things and so on, or trying to lift onto laws of men whatever it might be so it won’t sound and/or look like a lie anymore. People have the illusion that when something turns into a law, then that something is automatically granted a status of truth. I don’t care how many times you call or how many people you get along with you to call crap chocolate, in the end… Well, do I need to say more? On the other hand, who’s in sync with the truth or, to put it another way, if you witnessed something, thus knowing it to be the truth, it’s irrelevant to you how many will believe it or not, since you already know what the truth is. Ultimately, and objectively speaking, the Truth stood alone on the cross.
»Have you noticed that the Book of Revelation sometimes mentions Our Lord as the Witness?
»Since mankind has turned farther away from the Church, from Jesus and from God, in the last centuries, the number of people that become shocked with their first glimpse after they die has increased dramatically, because they’ve been had by the philosophies that have been pushed onto the general societies in the last centuries – and still are – to what concerns what life and the world truly are. So when they die, they’re confronted with what Jesus said about Himself and about Reality. So, again, when they die, if not believing in Jesus, they become shocked, because of being something they weren’t expecting. Don’t you understand that whoever doesn’t believe in Jesus is turning Him into someone that didn’t tell the truth? Having Jesus’ life in this world in mind, does that add up? I mean, at all? What happens after death. In the end, that’s what it all comes down to, right? As in, if knowing what happens after death, then one conducts his life according to that reality. Now, in all of History, who gives you the most credibility about that subject? Like Saint Paul wrote: who believes in Jesus Christ, will not be confounded. I think that Saint Paul had not only the Second Coming of Christ in mind when he wrote that, but also what happens after death.
It’s interesting the things one can end up with while waiting on a wave Master of Gravity
Lo there do I see my father
Lo there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers. Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning. Lo, they do call to me. They bid me to take my place among them, in the halls of Heavenly Jerusalem, where the brave may live forever!
So
If
After this
Jesus is already Someone you love and believe in
Have a nice day
If not7