FOUR COINS THAT COME WITH ADOPTION AS A SON (DAUGHTER) OF THE FATHER: Coin Two feeds me now and forever.

Again, this blog is about my interpretations of what heaven must be like (for me). Is it really what heaven is like? No. This is the stab in the dark by a grizzly, old, grumpy Lay Cistercian based on a Lectio Divina he had recently (actually multiple ones). Is it true? I hope so. Heaven begins now as I am aware of it. I picture myself, in these Lectio Divina sessions, sitting next to Christ on a couch and just waiting for something to happen. What follows is what happened as I remember it.

THE SECOND COIN–– FORMATION AND SUSTENANCE

“Once you have entered the first room or level,” this is the level of fulfillment of the highest possibility your nature can provide. This is the level of all the knowledge that there is that humanity can assimilate without frying their neurons,” said Christ. “There are two more levels or rooms for you to enter, each with its own unique set of skills with which you can advance towards your fulfillment in heaven. After you die, heaven is a place where there is only knowledge, love, and truth (service). Think of it as a place that contains all those who have ever lived or will live and do the will of the Father and put that coin in the slot.

What makes this room so special is that each person is unique but has the same opportunity to measure themselves against me. It is the accumulation of the knowledge and experiences they bring with them through a lifetime of trying.

They are not you; you are not them, but you can access their boundaries if you allow them. Your life will be like a single neuron linked together with all those other fascinating people in that room of The Genesis Principle.”

But, so far you have only used one coin and you could stay in this one room forever (literally) while chatting with family, friends, mentors, and famous people who are there. Your knowledge will be their knowledge and their knowledge is available to you, ” said the Father.

THE COIN OF TRUTH

“The second coin is a gold one that contains a photo of the bread and wine used in the Eucharist. The other side is a photo of you with the Ash Wednesday sign of the cross on your forehead. This is the other gift that I give you, besides my real presence in the Eucharist, the gift of mercy and forgiveness. The coin must be deposited in a repository on the wall. Placing it there will open the door of the second heaven, that of love. When you enter the second room, it will look like the upper room of your inner self. I am there, waiting for you,” said Christ.

“Each person has a different room which you designed while you were living. This couch or chair is one which you can wish to be with anyone you want that is linked through me and the Holy Spirit,” said Christ. I am the room and we will explore the possibilities of encountering all other people, events, and situations in your past life that you wanted to bring with you to live out forever.”

Christ continues, ” I wanted to be with you physically, even after I died on the cross, but there is a complication with nature, so I took the Passover Rite and merged it with the sacrificial Lamb of God to give you a here-and-now participation in me. Not only that, it is me, just as I have always been, just as I am Ascended and sitting at the right hand of the Father.”

“That is a lot for a human like me to accept,” I said.

“That is why they call it Faith,” said Christ, smiling with a twinkle in His eyes. ” I am asking you to be present with me in the Eucharist and Sacrament of Reconciliation as we go to the Father and I present our”Thanksgiving” (another word for Eucharist) to the Father and, together, give Him the kingdom, the power, and the glory that is His due.

On earth, we share the Eucharist when the gathering celebrates the death of the Lord until he comes again in glory. In the kingdom of heaven, it is a constant NOW for this love between everyone. God is love and there is no going to Mass or having to pray. The prayer of Christ is a constant hymn of praise for the kingdom, the power, and the glory…forever.

“There are two sides to the coin,” Christ continues, “Eucharist is food for the journey now and later on after you deposit it in the receptacle. Eucharist is me. There is only one me, and I call you friend and want to be with you while you live on earth, but most especially, in Heaven, my Kingdom that rewards you for your fidelity and sustainability while you were traveling through the Kingdom of the Earth, (John 14). I think you got the message that, if you are my disciple, you must have in you my mind (Philippians 2:5-12). I gave you myself in Eucharist while you continued living out your physical life so that I would sustain you with the energy of the Holy Spirit, but I also gave you a way to convert your life, or maybe, more correctly to say “start all over again, and again, and again.”

“Being a Lay Cistercian then, is one way that I can place myself in your presence and wait. This waiting is itself, a prayer of love where you share who you are with the like of me. I still can’t believe that you would do all of this for me, with what I know I am measured against the little that I know you are,” I said.

“In Heaven, my Kingdom, you don’t need food or drink or any other need, you have me,” said Christ.

“If the first coin gets you into Heaven, a reception room where all your friends you met in your lifetime are there to greet you, that joy you feel at seeing others made it will remain with you forever,” said Christ. “The second coin admits you to the upper room of your inner self, rather than a large reception banquet room. This is the place where we all met all those times and I share with you my energy. The neat thing about this room is, that you can ask anyone you want to join us at the table over there, the same place that you and I meet each time you are present to me. Try it out.”

Trying to ingratiate myself with Christ as the Boaneges, Sons of Thunder, did with Christ, I said, ” I want my four Mount Rushmore persons to meet us here, beginning with you, Jesus, then, St. Michael, then your mother, Mary, and finally your foster father, Joseph.”

“Michael, your choices are spot on, but I would like to ask a big favor of you. It would please me if you would rank my mother and father as first and second, then St. Michael, and lastly myself. Would you do that for me?” said Christ, placing his arms around me.

Stunned into silence, I just lowered my eyes, thought of Philippians 2:5-12, and meekly uttered, “Be it done unto me, according to your Word.”

To be continued…

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