Thursday, February 15, 2018

February 15 - Thursday after Ash Wednesday

­­+ Well, it seems as though the readings for this first day of Lent get right to the point: the point being that now, more than any other time in human history, everything is on the line: the finish line is a speck of light on the horizon, but it is real and it is there! The time has come historically, and spiritually to “empty our stuff into the latrine or get off the pot” – to make a decision that will determine our eternal placement!

The first reading tells us very simply, that God himself places before us death and life, sorrow and joy, chaos and peace, despair and hope – and because he respects our free will he does not make the choice for good, beauty, truth, and justice and all the above mentioned choices for us – but he does try to sway us that way – THE CHOICE is entirely ours: but our choice at the moment of our death will be firm and irrevocable.

So he gives us a lifetime of many Christmases, Lents, Easters and Vineyard Working Time… to seek out and find HIM, to follow a rightly formed conscience, so that when our life is waning, we will CHOOSE LIFE, LIBERTY, HAPPINESS that can only be found in the Kingdom prepared for us.

Mankind’s “wisdom” “knowledge” “science” can only go so far: man cannot save himself for eternal life of bliss, on his own, it will just never happen: but a simple act of belief in the Person (God/Man) whose savage and horrific Passion Death and Resurrection saves our sorry butts, will connect us to the Paradise Train: there is no other way in, none!

So for us, the gospel tells us its time to study the Death / Resurrection Dynamic which is what Lent is for: and to believe that what happened to Christ must happen to us, a difficult Passion and Death process, but also a glorious resurrection experience one day, when our disembodied souls will be reunited with our bodies and we will cross into a new heavens and a new earth and live in the Heart and Face of God the Father forever.

Who want’s to live forever, is the name of a pop song, but also is a direct question for each of us: if you do, then follow Jesus’ playbook, take up your cross daily and follow him!


Blessed are they who HOPE in the Lord!

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