THE WORD MADE FLESH

Hello everybody,

Reflecting on the gospel reading from last Sunday, as we did in our last gathering, Jesus' response is so captivating to me. His response captivates me even more as I keep pondering it." To REPENT, and to BELIEVE in the gospel."

Then I read our blog notes, and read the line "The power of contemplative prayer in the matrix of our "ordinary lives", in the matrix of the Mystery of God." WOW!!

To believe in the matrix of LOVE. God became flesh, Jesus Christ, becoming not only a DIVINE human vessel, but the matrix ITSELF....LOVE ITSELF....In Jesus, as a spot on the matrix ( His perfect humanity/divinity) makes His being, being every fiber and makeup of the matrix . How? Because He is the Word made flesh. Why? To re-unite His whole family (human and divine) back to His Father Almighty.

Jesus the man, Jesus the person, Jesus the God. The Holy Trinity made flesh. That's why the human nature and divine nature of Christ is so crucial for the inclusivness of eternal salvation. He became a very small and fragile creature, yet large and egotistical in nature, the mere concept of scaling God to human flesh.....unfathomable..... Jesus had to experience/accept this sinful existance of human flesh and human ways, mold it with his divine natures and divine ways, to live, to die, and to rise for all humanity and divinity to be One in the One.

To believe IN Jesus the man. To believe in Jesus the person. To believe in Jesus the God. To BELIEVE IN the summit and culmination of a man, God Himself. He became human, so we can be one flesh IN HIM . To restore/renew/realign our beliefs in our flesh, to believe that we can and do get restored/renewed/realigned in our hearts. To believe in hope, to believe in humble trust, not in ourselves but outside of ourselves, to believe IN LOVE.

The Love that brings us to salvation from sin, and all of its consequences and reprocutions, that have been sewn into our realities by Satan. To believe in hope, to believe in humble trust, not in ourselves but outside of ourselves, to believe in Christ Jesus, who personally purchased for us, eternal hope. Hope, that all of this "matrixing" we are doing, all of the connections, reconnections, disconnections and re-disconnections and re-reconnections in our lifetime, deep down we believe we are being stiched tighter IN Love, being stiched tighter in the mysterious matrix of God, to believe that Jesus truly happens everytime everyday.

The Christ, created to save His people, from sin. To save his people of all generations, through HIS living body and blood, the Eucharist. The Bread of Life. The Cup of Salvation. The New and Everlasting Covenant. Every time we go to communion, and receive Christ Himself, His person, His body, His humanity, we commune with the love of Christ, He in turn loves us to restoration/renewal/realignment in the depths of our beliefs IN HIM, but also FOR HIM.
Glory be to Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
AMEN.

We fishes in the river that goes everywhere

Hello everybody,

I was reading the notes from our last meeting, and as I was reading about the fish in the river, I was really moved by Fr. Francis' analogy. It is so deep. After reflection I have a few thoughts I would like to post.

"The fish in the river does not have a map of the river, it just swims, same with us, we do not need to understand where the river will turn, we are all called to go with the flow and see how that works out." I am quoting from the notes taken.

We are all called to go with the flow, I feel that the "going" IS the map, so to speak. The map, is the map of love, God's map (aka. God's will). The unconditional love of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost which is infinately dimensional, so we can never get lost in the mysterious depths of the river of life or of love itself.

It is that love is so right there, and we(fishies) are so everywhere else, that we don't see it, hear it, think it, or feel it. We need to just be, be there with it. We are just too busy swimming, that is what we are naturally/innately/conditionally made to do. Thank God that God is unconditional.

And for all of the "flowing" that life offers, wether the river is calm or if we are in Mock 5 roaring rapids. God's map is suffice for anything, it always has been and will always be. We just need to learn to trust in the map, to surrender selflessly instead of conditionally, that is how we stay afloat. In doing that, throughout our fishy lives, we will learn that the only way out is through.

We learn to trust in the one thing that is there; in all of our "outs" all of our "throughs" all of our "afloating", the only constant centrality in our everchanging world is CHRIST JESUS. The perfect unconditional love made flesh. The only constant, unchanging, unwavering and unconditional thing we have is LOVE ITSELF (the map,in its perfect essence).

So, in living in a world,where the river is never the same river twice, where each day is its own unique day of its own, where time never stands still, to me shows,why the only constant thing in our reality of ours; is change. And we, by our baptism, have the map of love, to be our guide, our navigator, our lifejacket in all waters (from the calm to the roar of the rapids) OUR GOD IS THERE. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.

I would like to express one more personal comment. I quote, "Sometime at some point God gives His fish their map- but a fish with a map doesn't change much (looks cool but makes you much weirder to all the other fish) you just know where but need infinite help....." I agree with the point that we all need infinite help, yes we all do, we are all human born in sin. Which means we are all perfectly imperfect.

I deeply feel that we are all "His fish" and each of our maps, ALL COINCIDE IN THE MAP OF LOVE. I feel that no fish is "weirder" than the next, that is just our own weirdness. From salmon that swim upstream, to the beautiful jellyfish that never see sunlight, to the starfish that is stuck on a rock, from saltwater coral to freshwater feeder fish, WE ARE MADE IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD. That is not weird, its just connected. Isn't that the point of maps to get us from one place to another, I feel in God's map that is how gets us from one moment to the next we just have to humbly trust in the connections. God bless us all. :)