Everything will be alright in the end. So if it's not alright, then it's not yet the end. (from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, 2012)
Call it Hindu optimism or the Resurrection, but i agree. Before that end arrives, when all is well, happy and joyful, we still have time to do the right thing. We have time to change our way, take another direction, adjust our pace and take another attitude to those things that might be holding us back and foiling that proper ending. God is the end and all roads lead to Him, however some roads may be faster than others.
I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth (Is 49:6)
The end is salvation. Illumination. Everlasting peace back in the bosom of our God. This road, the Way taught by the Christ, is straight and narrow. All ways demand a challenging road filled with Self-sacrifice. The wide and easy highway travelled but the great bulge of humanity is not fastest way: all that is holy suggests otherwise.
And yet we are all called. St. John the Baptist is that voice in the wilderness, calling us to that wilderness, calling us down off the wide and easy way to join him on the true path, free of greed and selfishness, free of hate and anger, free of isolation and separation. He asks us to join him and be baptised in the spirit of the Lord.
Once this wisdom is touched, our lives can never be the same again.
Our life is never the same as it was a moment ago. We build a new reality in each moment only to see it turn to dust as it passes; the future presenting new opportunities to grow, but not in fear, not in anxiety, rather hope and joy and compassion.
How shall we live our life? Will we accept the gifts offered? Will we grow in the light of our true nature? Will we have the patience and the determination to do what is necessary for becoming that light to our brothers and sisters of the world? We live our lives together. We are never alone. God is always with us to remind us what we share His light.
Deo gratias.
Call it Hindu optimism or the Resurrection, but i agree. Before that end arrives, when all is well, happy and joyful, we still have time to do the right thing. We have time to change our way, take another direction, adjust our pace and take another attitude to those things that might be holding us back and foiling that proper ending. God is the end and all roads lead to Him, however some roads may be faster than others.
I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth (Is 49:6)
The end is salvation. Illumination. Everlasting peace back in the bosom of our God. This road, the Way taught by the Christ, is straight and narrow. All ways demand a challenging road filled with Self-sacrifice. The wide and easy highway travelled but the great bulge of humanity is not fastest way: all that is holy suggests otherwise.
And yet we are all called. St. John the Baptist is that voice in the wilderness, calling us to that wilderness, calling us down off the wide and easy way to join him on the true path, free of greed and selfishness, free of hate and anger, free of isolation and separation. He asks us to join him and be baptised in the spirit of the Lord.
Once this wisdom is touched, our lives can never be the same again.
Our life is never the same as it was a moment ago. We build a new reality in each moment only to see it turn to dust as it passes; the future presenting new opportunities to grow, but not in fear, not in anxiety, rather hope and joy and compassion.
How shall we live our life? Will we accept the gifts offered? Will we grow in the light of our true nature? Will we have the patience and the determination to do what is necessary for becoming that light to our brothers and sisters of the world? We live our lives together. We are never alone. God is always with us to remind us what we share His light.
Deo gratias.
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