Jesus and His Families- 1-12-2009

Hello everybody,

I just wanted to post a few thoughts that I have learned by our gathering on Monday night. First off I would like to thank God, Jesus, Holy Spirit and the whole Body of Christ in its outpouring of love that They bestow upon us everyday and in everyway. Amen.

O.K. When I sat down Fr. Paul had us reading from the gospel of John, John 19:25. The sorrowful mystery, of the sorrowful moments prior to death on a cross, of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. The WHOLE PURPOSE of his being human , in his divine origin of the ONE, for the ONE. The timing of the scene is so heartbreaking for me, the moments before our Lord dies on the cross. That it was almost finished, his humanity, his living human person exhausted, beat, torn apart and hanging there for our sins and those of the whole world. The reality of the DEPTHS of LOVE our Almighty has for ALL of us, through the birth, life, death and resurrection of our Christ Jesus.

The witnesses there for those precious and sorrowful and most holy moments, Mary his Mother, Mary Magdalene, John the Beloved, and Mary sister. They where there, from the beginning to the end. To witness, as one united family, from up above to down below, the culmination of the Son of Man and the Son of God in the most precious and sorrowful way. "For the Son of Man has come to seek and save what is lost." (Luke 19:10)

I humbly feel that maybe, when Jesus saw his Mother at nears end, feeling all of her pain but loving her all the more. That was his mom, she was there for his first steps, his first wood projects, she taught him the Scriptures that He was to fullfill, and She just loved all the more. That deep deep PERSONAL and HUMAN bond of Mother and Son.
And even a deeper, deeper UNCONDITIONAL and DIVINE bond of Mother and Son, both conceived in and by the Holy Spirit. All for, the WHOLE PURPOSE of the ALMIGHTY GOD. Amen.

Also, in my humble opinion, who better than John, the Beloved to behold His Mother to. I, Tyree, don't feel its bad that all the others ran away, in God's eyes, that was of no surprise, just our own judgemental surprise. The one who needed to be there, was.
I would like to mention John 1:35, The First Disciples. It says, "The next day (after Jesus' baptism), John was there again with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he said, "Behold, the Lamb of God" . The two disciples heard what he said and followed Jesus."

John knew. John felt. John was there. John called the name of The Lamb of God. Who takes away the sin of the world. The Lamb of God , who takes away the consequences and reprocutions of sin. The Lamb of God who grants us peace, by his UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. Jesus and John were friends, guy to guy to start, then became heart to heart. That very personal and open relationship those two shared, how precious that must have been, words could never express really. John witnessed many many things in his time with Christ on earth, and with Christ in heaven. That DIVINE bond, of heavenly realities, through and in,The Body and Blood of the Lamb of God for all of humanity and divinity to be ONE. I feel John was the best choice to tend to the Queen Mother on earth.

Mary Magdalene, she was there with Jesus and his disciples as well. She loved Jesus too. How horrible that must have been, to see the man you love doing SO MUCH for love. To stand by and watch. I think it is really cool though that she is the first to see Jesus at the tomb. Jesus spoke to her and was there in his heavenly form, not yet complete because he still had to go to the Father in heaven, that is why she could not touch him.
Not yet complete, but close. Just like the scene at the cross. But she was able to witness her love in his divine and victorious state. Jesus was coming up from his descent to hell, to be glorified on the right hand of the Father, but wanted to show himself to her first, then go tell the guys what has happened. WOW!!! What bonds of human love and divine love, loving as one, man and woman, sinner and the sinless, the imperfect and the perfect merging in love one more time. WOW!!!

Glory and Praise be to God forever and ever!!
Tyree