This year’s April reached a watershed. I had my lunar birthday date fall on the same day with my best friend’s birthday. So we had a tasteless lunch together. We did not even bother with the cake. We were burdened by a bad news.
It was a final challenge. Despite over ten years of learning divine health, it was still beyond our tiny self to face an unbelievable crisis this SIZE.
It was like the healing school suddenly announced the graduation exam a day before and we were no way near being ready.
There were many routes and bypasses, but which was the correct one? Burning midnight oil to dawn cramming all the spiritual notes and studies, knowing that there was more to be revised.
Which was the correct answer out of the thousands and one? Unlike a dream from which we could extricate without a consequence, we had to walk on the reality thin ice.
I cried out many times to God for not knowing for sure what to do.
Teachers taught me to get closer so I could hear: Bible verses, hymns and worship. Seek God for His verses described so clearly what His Son had done for us all.
I recalled how He found me in April 1983 when He poured His love through the Holy Spirit.
Studying Romans recently opened my vision to see the big picture of God’s creating Adam, the first human with a purpose for us to be His children just as He made Adam to be. Adam did not work out as planned. But God did not give up.
God does not give up. He sent His Son, Jesus to become the pathway for us all to get back to the Father as His children. This is His forever love.
Hallelujah! He has won the victory for us, just as the prophet Isaiah prophesied below what Jesus would accomplish:
But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all. (Isaiah 53:5-6)
https://haventoday.org/…/handels-messiah-lyrics-verse…/
Royal Choral Society: ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ from Handel’s Messiah
I wrote the above on 2022-04-05 , a draft I didn’t know how to end then.
2024-02-25 updated notes below:
This part is for the soulish earthman to ponder:
I didn’t know then the journey was to finish the way it did. I didn’t know then what I was to go through thereafter, including the agony of seeking solutions and answers, and the crashing finale and weight of the grief since December 26, 2023.
Would I ever listen to the above choral? When? On earth or in heaven only? What is reality to me now? Does my soulish question ever matter anyway?
This part is for the spiritual you and the spiritual earthman:
Right now for me it’s just one day at a time, or rather, moment by moment seeking God, recalling His goodness and mercy despite my failures, and at times listening to the lively happy chirping sounds from the birds outside my window.
I watch too, the blue lagoon up there in the sky encircled by pure white clouds, where I imagine you are, on one of your happy outings, perchance glancing over this side of the shore. Yes, it’s such a beautiful day as I look up and see with my heart beyond the seen realm into the unseen realm where you are settled.
Thank you God, for making human spirit, soul, and body so we have hope regardless of what happened here on earth.
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