Luke 11:27-28 True Blessedness

Hello everybody,

This piece was in "draft status" for a long time, and I have been still pondering The Word made flesh. Here are a few thoughts.

True Blessedness in Luke 11:27-28.
The passage is, " While he was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed."
He replied, "Rather blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it."

To hear the word of God, to believe in the Gospel, to hope in the Word made flesh, God made Man, scaled down to each and every person in ourselves, deep down in each of our beings.

To hear the word of God: to hear the little voice, nudge, incline, huntch, pull to do what is right to God, to our neighbor, and to ourselves. What we hear, if it is from God, helps us to keep straight in our daily lives, to keep straight our sinful ways to Jesus. Wether we want to or not? or understand it or not, wether or not we agree with it or not. I humbly feel, that in all of this time all of the wanting, understanding and agreeing becomes pretty trivial in the broad scheme of things, like God's will being done and not our own.

Where do we hear this stuff? We hear it in our hearts, in our minds, in our spirits, in our consciences, in the core of ourselves. Through the good times and the bad times we learn to observe it, practice it, fail at it, get up by it, practice hearing it some more......day in and day out. With all of the practicing, in the successes and failures everday, we learn to believe , we see what is right, we see what is true. We believe and start to grow in truth in our sinful lives. The truth, Christ Jesus which gives us balance to the sin we are born in, and are in.

That is our eternal hope, we can experience as a family of Christ, in all of the practicing in listening, the good days and bad days, that our Jesus, is our eternal salvation, our eternal hope, in our internal worlds. Jesus says "BLESSED are those...who hear the word of God and observe it. " I feel that the blessing we grow in, is one of hope, a light in the darkness of sin in our beings, a blessing of hopeful sustenance, on those bad days, where truth is in the dark, yet we can experience the silver lining that lies beyond the darkness, that hope that it is going to be o.k, just stay close to me Christ Jesus, stay close.

I pray Christ stays close to each and every one of you this day, and for all days to come. Amen.
God Bless,
Tyree

Jesus and His Family- Luke 8:19-21

Hello,

I wanted to also comment on the discussion we had Monday night regarding, Luke8:19-21, Jesus and His Family. Jesus is fully human and fully divine, 2 natures in 1 being.

You know, it reminds me of the Finding in the Temple. The parents looking for their child for a few days, come to find Him in His Father's house, preaching and teaching. When found, Jesus as a boy, was obedient to his parents from then on.
In this scene, Jesus is a grown man, in full swing of his preaching and teaching the people the love of God, while crowds surrounded him. Mom and brothers come to find him, while Jesus is doing the will of His Holy Father.

I humbly feel that maybe why Jesus had to make a distinction to the people was to point out the UNIVERSAL meaning of "Mother" and "Brother" or "Family" ALL in the One Body of Christ.
Versus the "one body" of Christ as a son or a brother, CONDITIONALLY here on earth. Yes, Jesus has two natures, but Jesus used both natures in such perfect and mysterious ways to teach us, by a living and dying and resurrected example, of the infinite depths of UNCONDITIONAL love, which only comes from our Lord our God.

In Jesus making this distinction, I feel that His divinity, His universaltality, takes precedence, this is why such the answer from Christ. At first, to me it is harsh, but really when we reflect on it a little more, Jesus' whole purpose was to save souls and bring us all home. As stated in (Luke 4:43) "To the other town also, I must proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom of God, FOR THIS PURPOSE I WAS SENT." For the salvation and redemption of souls and the forgiveness of all our sins and its consequences, so we may have ETERNAL LIFE. To me, this means all of the families become all one.

What do you guys think?
God Bless,
Tyree

This I feel is why that His death on the cross is the perfect act of love. Using his humanity, his person as the way, the truth and the light to teach us all about our Holy Family and the love we have in them, through Him, Christ Jesus.

Human Family: Jesus, Mary, Joseph, All Past ancestory/lifetimes/generations from the line of David, and of the ancestory that is to come.

Divine Family: Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Angels and Saints, Mother Nature/Cosmos, The universality of all existance, for all of time.

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

Good afternoon everybody. As I was reflecting back to our meeting on monday, something hit me. I began to think of how God is telling his people through Saint Peter(2peter3:8-14) "BUT according to his promise, we await new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells."

"new heavens":
What I humbly began to ponder was Genesis, and the Fall Stories. First, the fall of the angels. The beginning of sin, the chasm of heaven and hell. The choice that 1/3 of the angels made to follow Lucifer. The only reason there will be new heavens is by the blood of the lamb. Each drop, wiping clean everything heaven, hell and the chasm.
Just like Peter said, "and the heavens will pass away with a mighty roar." I like to think its the roar of the lamb coming in full glory, to bring us ALL home. Where is home? Eternal life. This is how Jesus cleans up all of divinity and heavens before we go home.

"a new earth"
In the fall story of Adam and Eve, the start of original sin, its consequences and reprocutions of it, for all humanity. This is a fall that keeps falling. A fall we are all still and will be part of to this very day, why? Because we are human and have free will. The choice and choices we make in our lives, past present and future keeps us wretchedly sinful.
The only reason there will be "a new earth" is by the Body and Blood of the Lamb made flesh, who is OUR CHRIST JESUS. It makes me very humbled and grateful that God came down in the flesh to save us from sin, from its consequences and reprocutions, basically from this human life and death to give us eternal life with no death.
Jesus not only saved us by dying on that tree, and by rising from the dead. He conquered death by dying and desending into hell, so we would not have to. Through his desecnt, I feel is where Jesus Christ cleaned up the consequences and reprocutions and deeds of all evil, and loved it for the good of all. All this love was and is needed for us humans to make it through the gates, TOGETHER AND UNIFIED UNDER THE ONE.

"and the earth and everything done on it will be found out"
This reminded me of the tower of babel. All of this babel we do, we say, we live, we mingle with in our lifetimes. The sin we live within ourselves. Then, we(humanity)have to live together on this planet. Then, we as a family of God, perserve and reform our cultures, our societies, our families, so again, we stayed unified under the one risen Christ Jesus, FOR ALL OF TIME. TO ANY END OF ANY EARTH AND BEYOND. All thanks and praise and thanksgiving to the Father Almighty, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

"where righteousness dwells"
This is why need Jesus soo much, He is the ONLY perfect righteousness known to man and above and the only place I would want all of us to dwell after this existence has taken its course. That is when we really will be dwelling in divine and heavenly style. Amen