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A Lay Cistercian Looks at Spiritual Reality
Michael: Sorry for waking you up at 9:56 pm but you did ask me to help clarify all the confusion and turmoil around you. Before I begin, St. Michael wants me to tell you that he appreciates your thinking of him in your Lectio Divina at 2:30 am every day. You had mentioned in your Lectio Divina prayer that you find all the hatred and posturing for power sad and depressing. I have to tell you, Michael, it hurts me deeply to see how you humans are acting. If you remember, my tribes in the New Testament worshiped the Golden Calf even as I gave them the Commandments from Moses. It looks like you folks don’t learn the lessons of history past three generations. The Golden Calf is still alive and well and people are worshiping it, blinded to my words of caution. The key to all of this is confirmed in both new and old testaments. Deuteronomy 5:6 and Matthew 22:36. Love God with all your mind, your heart, and all your strength and your neighbor as yourself. When you listen to any of the speeches about justice is there any talk of mercy? Can you say the Shema Yisrael and listen to the hatred of those full of rage instead of full of grace, without feeling that people have missed the mark about what I have come to tell them? I said, “Love one another as I have loved you.” That’s all folks! Tell people that any efforts to build peace on the foundations of the world are in vain and useless. If all humans measure their hearts against my heart, they will find peace and justice. This peace is not what the world gives, that is, the absence of war or conflict, but rather it is the presence of Love, my love for each person. Tell folks not to give up hope but to not place their trust in humans. I am the way, the truth, and the life, Michael. I fear that people will get a rude awakening if they stand before me in judgment with hatred, envy, and jealousy in their hearts. There is no hatred in Heaven, Michael, only Love. If you were a room in my kingdom of heaven, I would not allow you to have hatred in it. You must first sweep clean your room to prepare for my way. If you link your love for me with one other person, that means there are two of you. You know what I said about two or three who gather in my name to love me? I am in your midst. I won’t let you down, Michael. If you want, you can send this Email out to those whom you think could join you in praise to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. The God who is who was and who is to come at the end of the Ages. Be safe in all the Covid19 pandemic. Remember, you are my adopted son. See you soon. Love, your brother, The Christ
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