I finished reading Ed Kelly's book A Walk to Garabandal and am now reading Garabandal, Message of Hope by José Luis Saavedra, possibly the best book on the subject. The English edition came out in 2016 and I am reading the 2017 second edition. Conchita, the oldest of the four seers kept a diary. After seeing Mary in the first apparition, she wrote, "And so ended the 2nd, Sunday; a very happy day! We have seen the virgin for the first time. We are all with her, whenever we want." I am struck by that last sentence. We can be with God or Mary whenever we want! They are totally accessible even if we don't see them. Of course, if we are in union with God already, we don't even need to want God to be with him. Anyway, to be with God or the Blessed Mother is just great!
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
****Fantastic Bonding
It's a great feeling to be able to share what's deep in your heart to someone who totally understands you and can heal all your wounds and make you whole as well. That person exists and is Christ our Savior. When you share everything within you with him, you bond with him in the process. Eventually, he and you become soulmates, no less.
***No Need to Ask Christ Questions
If I meet someone I don't know, to know him I'll have to ask him a lot of questions. Even to know someone already known to me better, there'll still be plenty more questions I can ask. It is interesting that I seem to know Christ whom I have never even met so well that if I see him, I don't feel the need to ask him any questions anymore. Just to be with him is perfect satisfaction and pure joy already.
**Our Easy Part
In today's first reading from 1 John 4, we read that God proved his love for us by sending his only-begotten Son into the world as expiation for our sins. Now we can prove that we love God by following his will.
*****Ultimate Prayer
It is to be out of God's way so that his will may prevail! This calls for our total obedience to him, thus incapacitating Satan and restoring the order in the universe.
***The Only One
Psalms 130:3—If you, LORD, keep account of sins, Lord, who can stand? This makes me ask "If you, LORD, do not save us, who can?" Obviously, The God of Christ is the only one who can save us and forgive our sins if we repent.
Monday, January 3, 2022
****Repentance, a Great Joy!****
The Lord has just made me see a most beautiful experience. We commit a sin, and it could be a small one. We realize that we were wrong and turn to God to repent. And the Lord forgives us. The moment we realize that we have sinned is a moment of sweet joy! Realizing that you need to repent is truly a most beautiful feeling—it's the Holy Spirit touching your heart or the Lord gazing at you with love! When you confess you sin, the whole heaven rejoices! The Lord forgives you and you are back in his all-embracing love! It's precisely because offending God is such a horrible thing that reconciling yourself to God is so joyful and consoling. Now, you don't sin against the Lord anymore . . . your joy remains constant!
***Seeing the Overall Reality
It is critically important for us to be aware that good and evil are real and that a fierce spiritual war is being fought between God and Satan for our souls. God who loves and wishes to save us has revealed this to us, while Satan wants us to believe that God doesn't even exist. So we must choose sides. Your have the free will to choose to believe or disbelieve what I've just said here; but since I see that you are actually the cause of this war with your soul at stake, you must consider the whole thing most carefully and not come to any rash conclusion.
***Humility, True and False
If you want to become holy or a saint, that's actually being humble, for you are willing to set all your pride aside to let the Lord mold and shape you as he wishes. On the other hand, if you think that you are not good enough to become a saint, that is no genuine humility, for you still decide what you don't want to do. Besides, you offend the Lord by telling him it's not possible for him to make you holy. It is clear that God desires that we all be perfect (Matthew 5:48).